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Good afternoon. On 20 April, we will be going on the crown princess out of San Francisco. my friend has a daughter in San Francisco who is going to meet us there. She says there’s more than one pier. Does anybody know what Peter uses? Thank you!

Thank you 😊 

We start out of SF actually.

We have been awarded to the USS, Missouri and Honolulu. 
 

We live near Chicago and have been to the museum of science and industry where they have the captured World War II German submarine do U 505. That’s incredible just to be on that thing and see how those poor guys had to endure such cramped and basically unhygienic and filthy conditions. 

We’ve seen the USS Yorktown in Patriots Point, Charleston, SC. My uncle served on it in WW II. 

Wow! That sounds wonderful. I assume the Midway museum is actually a ship? Is this correct? I would love to be able to go on it if so.

my uncle served in the Navy in World War II and we were able to go on the USS Yorktown, which is in Charleston South Carolina, at Patriots point.

Thank you again for some great ideas!

Thank you for the replies.
 

It’s no wonder I couldn’t find much in the way of private tour guys for these ports.

I did look at Viator who we used for our Iceland cruise a couple years ago but this time I found their prices really high. 
 

I did see one excursion offered by the ship for Los Angeles, which I think it’s pretty good for us. We go to the place where they have the walk of fame and we have two hours to walk around so I think I like that.

If we can just stroll into town in San Diego and Santa Barbara, that may be good enough. I don’t think our friends who are going with us. Want to be energetic about this. My friend does have Parkinson’s and he can’t get around. It’s not that easy for him. 
 

We definitely are going to take a ships tour in Ensenada, though we haven’t decided which one yet.

Again, thank you for the replies.

Larry 

Hello. We will be doing a cruise of the California coast in April. We have stops in San Diego, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, and Ensenada Mexico. Specifically for the US ports, will there be tour guides or private tour people available once we get off the ship like they usually are for just about everywhere else? we usually prefer just to get off when we feel like and wing it. I haven’t been able to find anything such available, but I would imagine there should be. What is your experience with getting off in these ports and meeting people to sell you tours?
 

Thank you.

Larry 

Actually, two cruise planners gave me the information about free dining at the buffet only. Yes two. 
 

it was the person at the 800 number or general number who gave me the right information.

Well, I just don’t know how people are trained anymore.

I should’ve come here first. 😂

You know, it’s utterly amazing that you can get incorrect information like what I got from at least three different people from Princess and get the correct information here.

thank you again!

I actually found on the app and I can make reservations for the main dining room so I called the cruise planner back and I said please double check. He had said he talk to visor and I said talk to another one! 
he did that and then he confirmed the main dining room. The funny thing is I talked to another cruise planner, and she said the same thing as he did. I have no idea what they’re doing. I called the main 800 number and the cruise planner number and was told that yes I can go to the main dining room and in fact she tried to help me make reservations for those venues. 

we can only use pizza twice for our casual dining. Is it true that we can only have pizza twice without paying for it? 
Thank you again very much! 

I was just informed by my cruise planner and other cruise planners that the only available dining for us on our cruise in April out of San Francisco is in the horizon buffet. They were telling me that everything else is extra. We have the Princess plus package which includes Wi-Fi, a beverage, package and gratuities. It also includes dining at two casual restaurants. Do you mean to tell me that you cannot go to anyone of the other main dining venues anymore?

Thank you

Thank you for the replies! 

Hello;

we are a party of six who will be cruising out of Reykjavik in June with stops in tree ports in Iceland, Isafjordur, Akureyri and Sefdisfjordur.  Usually tour operators are in ports but can anyone confirm if thius is true for these ports?  

Thank you

Larry 

I hope so too. its a port stop which I hope is close to the beach as it seems the best places are there. Looks scrumptious! I like to try local foods and wash them down with local beer too. 😂 No point in going so far and drinking what I can get here. 🍺

Thank you

We will be having a port stop in T and T and seems bake and shark is a go to quintessential meal here. There are many places that serves this, Richards, Richards, Daphnes just to name  few so can anyone recommend a restaurant to try this T and T creation? 

Thank you.

Larry .

Wow!  We were on the Feb. 3 cruise which stopped in Qatar. Glad we had a chance. Our scheduled stop in Bahrain was canceled but that was due to security concerns. 

BTW the Jewel for 2019 received the highest marks fleet wide for service. 

24 minutes ago, stompy said:

 

oh man, 7 nights of jerk chicken and rice for me.  where do I sign up?

 

Call their special number, 1 800 Eire mon 😂

Yes the Jewel which we sailed on last month had an Indian menu every night and in addition they made items not on the menu as well, usually served the next evening.

We have cruised with RCI, X, Princess, NCL and Carnival and it’s been our experience to simply request Indian food on day one and they will make it for you, no problem. 

Once one of the chefs who is Jamaican came to the MDR to see how things were and jokingly I asked for jerk chicken. And the next night I got it!

https://www.cruisecritic.com/memberreviews/memberreview.cfm?EntryID=678876&et_cid=3317225&et_rid=16708321&et_referrer=Contest_Costa_June2013

We were on this ship Feb 3 out of Dubai. 12 hours before boarding an email and  text was sent which read if you were in China w/i the past 15 days boarding would be denied. Just curious but does anyone know specifically what RCI did to those who were denied boarding for this reason?

Thank you.

1 hour ago, PescadoAmarillo said:

We were due a refund from Princess since the beginning of December for EZ Air cancelled prior to 45 days before the start of that cruise. We were cruising at the time and didn’t see it appear in our credit card account. Thinking that perhaps we had been issued a check for it (which we just have been, for an expired FCD, for some unknown reason as they are usually credit card credits), I didn’t call until we returned home mid February. Princess had ‘no idea’ why they hadn’t processed the refund.  Finance got involved and we had the credit to our credit card two days later. 
 

Credits can be very quick if you call. Nine days is long enough to wait. I’d call them today. 

Actually see #12. The credit posted today which included the EZ air we had purchased. 

Thank you! 

Update. The refund arrived today so it took 10 working days.

Thank you for all the helpful replies.

Larry 😊

2 hours ago, CatsareCool said:

Although Princess may have put the refund through to your credit card, the bank that your credit card is linked with can take a few extra days to process also.

I actually called the cc co. So far no pending refund but Im sure it will come