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Enjoyed your videos. Will be on the Pacific Princess this June for the first time, looking forward to the cruise. Might not want to go back to the Royal or Regal type ships. Will be in a mini-suite, wondering if any videos of those cabins are available.

 

 

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Thank you and have a wonderful time on Princess!

As to Mini Suite video, I don’t know, but I think you’ll be hard-pressed to find them of any good quality; it’s the reason I filmed in 4K – I wanted people to see far better quality than someone’s cell phone video at 480P [emoji849]

Really irked me that many people film via convenience and not quality. Cell phones/portrait versus landscape, etc.

Cheers,

Bob

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After much anticipation, we are finally on our Viking ocean cruise in the Caribbean. We decided to try Viking after reading all of the great reviews and seeing their numerous awards. Like many of you, we to get tired of jewelry sales, photographers, and the push to upsell.With that being said, after one week so far on the Viking Sea,my husband and I Are booking our next cruise again with celebrity. We have only taken one celebrity cruise in the past, on the silhouette, and we really enjoyed it. We are 58 and 70, and have found the average age on Viking to be higher than what we expected. I think the Viking product is great if you love to read, love classical music or quiet piano music. The evening entertainment is decent with a collection of singers, and the band excellent. But the songs so far have definitely appealed more to a older generation. Not really a club for dancing if you enjoy that. The pool is definitely quiet, no games, but no music either. Things we miss from Celebrity - Martini and Sunset bars. There was more activity, and more of a “vacation vibe”. I’m not looking for a raucous party, but I like to feel some sort of “hey, we’re on vacation!” spirit. It seems most everyone on Viking is retired, so maybe coming from a different perspective. We stayed in Aqua on celebrity, and I think our room was just as nice as what we have here on Viking. Balcony is just the same. A lot of people have talked about how good the Viking food is an over all it is good. However, there’s just nothing special about going to dinner on Viking. It’s almost too casual, And although some people like the clean Scandinavian design, I think it is rather cold. We felt that our dinners in blu and especially Murano were just as good as what we’ve had On board here. If anyone has more questions, I’d be glad to answer them but for now it’s off to one of our excursions here in Aruba!

Thank you. Your post appears to be objective and is definitely helpful.

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... Beverly Hillbillies and their feral children.

Dude. The original poster was trying to be helpful. ‘Feral’? Mind your manners a bit better.

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This class sounds like fun to me. My husband, not so much. I know he will not be eager to pay $35 pp for this class when we have the premium drink package. I know it's not much, but that's the way his mind works. I say it'll be fun and maybe it will break us out of our cocktail rut a little when we get home.

 

 

 

Have any of you taken this class? What were your thoughts?

Yes, we did on Eclipse, and it was $30 I believe at the time...and- was a blast getting to do it. That said, it was at a time when it was still the Molecular Bar... a lot of fun.

Your husband has to be objective and separate the premium package you have with any extra tours you want, including onboard classes- they simply are not connected.

If they were, the premium drink package would be higher priced to now ‘include’ the fee. Also, there would be no easy capacity control of the class. This is no different than the Oceanview Café including all your food, but the Lawn Grill or any specialty dining being extra.

Does not sound like he should go, where he is concerned about $35. I think you would have a blast doing it.

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Our cruise on the Equinox for the 8th December has been cancelled as it has been chartered. Does anybody know who to? Thanks.

Call the cruise line and ask. Anything else is just rumor!

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bob221b1

 

Thank you so much for posting the video. We were in the same suite for 18 nights last June/July 2017 after drydock. Some things were changed like the bed and sofa, but we still had the old chairs and light fixtures. Did they put USB ports in the new light fixtures?

You’re very welcome. There are three videos in playlist. Nope, there are not USB ports in the fixtures, but it didn’t matter to us, it was just a wonderful experience.

Thank you for your pictures, though I took a bunch myself!

If you want to see video of the trip, give me your email address and I will send you a link. Hope to see you on a Princess cruise or other!

Cheers,

Bob

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Thanks for the information and for sharing the wonderful video. It's definitely putting the Pacific Princess at the top of the list for a cruise in 2019!

You are very welcome, I’m glad you enjoyed it.

Took a lot of film while I was there, I’m sure you’ll get great opportunities yourself.

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Thanks for making this excellent video! It was great to see the updates to this lovely ship.

You’re very welcome.

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Thanks again. What I'd like to know is if you have to dine at a set time for Club Class or if you can go any time. It is my understanding that you can only dine at your preassigned time in the non-Club Class part of the dining room, I just didn't know if those same rules applied to Club Class. We have dined in Club Class on other ships and can go whenever we want, hoping it is the same for the Pacific Princess!

CC dine whenever you like, 17.30-21.00 was our range.

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We thought there might be. Off topic perhaps but you showed the Club Class dining area. I know the regular MDR is traditional dining only, but is it the same for Club Class? Or is that part anytime? Thanks again for sharing, as you may be able to tell we are considering a future cruise on this ship so I'm doing a little snooping!

Off-topic away! anything you like, I love that ship.

With respect, take a close look again at that video, especially on a large screen television...

There is a text overlay that right after the “club bar” is the entrance to the main dining room. The first text overlay you see, bottom center, says “club class dining”; followed a few seconds later by “main dining room”.

There are the same physical room but sectioned off with a rope, and containing different tableware and service. This is the only time with Princess Cruises that this occurs- it is my understanding that all other ships have their own physical dining room.

Bear in mind that a full suite is automatically is Club Class dining.

Keep the questions coming, I’m happy to help.

By the way... at the very end of the “Panorama Buffet” section of the video, you see a man that slightly resembles Fred Flintstone (IMO) pouring coffee.. that is Antonio, the Head Waiter. He will make special treats for you adjacent to your table only for the club class dining section. He is amazing !

For additional pictures and details, as you wish, give me your email address and I will continue a dialogue there.

Cheers,

Bob

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Very nice! I also watched your video of suite 8067. Could you hear any noise from the public deck immediately above?

Thank you!

Yes, a little. That suite is directly under the starboard aft portion of the café’s outside ‘porch’. You will inevitably hear a little bit of scraping as staff move furniture about 6 o’clock each morning.

Cheers,

Bob

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Wow, beautiful ship! We are booked on her for the Ireland, Wales and Scotland cruise from Dover, England on Aug 17, 2019 and can't wait to board her! Hopefully she is still the ship for this cruise next summer!

Thank you.. I thought so!

She will be. Don’t let the other posts, however misplaced, scare you off of a 2019 booking.

As for 2020 and beyond, that will be known by April 2018, publicly, when Princess’ schedule for that year is published.

The purpose of this thread is to discuss/showcase her refurbishment since June 2017, not to talk about any possible sale as others have done [emoji846]

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Great video of my favorite ship. I've sailed on her several times including 5 weeks in 2015 to Alaska and then the Official 50th Anniversary cruise with the entire Love Boat cast. Fantastic memories :)

Thanks! Lucky you!

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What a great video, thank you so much for posting it. We sailed her on the canal cruise right before her refurbishment. She quickly became my favorite Princess ship. I am looking forward to the possibility of booking a cruise on her in 2020.....:):):)

 

Bob

Thank you. I remember following your blog LA-FLL in May ‘17! You were also in a suite.. ours may have been a one-off there [emoji3]

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Please watch at the highest resolution possible, including on a 4K television (The format in which I filmed).

Enjoy [emoji4]

~Bob

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmCdKjjN4xKZqMWKSwbqq_ygPR8Qa2RW5

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.... onus is **on the traveller** to inform themselves of the visa requirements and obligation...

Yep, in spades. Anyone leaving a country should know the permission required from another for entry.

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really loved the new dining room, but wonder how the white upholstery on the chairs is going to hold up.

Interesting comments about the furniture with the last few posters; we are boarding in 14 days, and will provide current pictures on that roll call board (11Nov) [emoji846]

Cheers,

Bob

 

 

 

She's underway. Sure wish I was onboard.....:):):)

 

 

 

Bob

Bob,

I want to again thank you for your posts in May- June, Los Angeles to Florida. I read your post daily as it was right around the time we booked our cruise on Pacific Princess, our first time on this ship.

I followed her progress from the information I could get midsummer as she came out of dry dock and, apparently got upgrades in increments both in the Caribbean and New York.

Our cruise is November 11, just around the corner.

Your posts from your owner suite were amazing- though mostly textual with an occasional daily picture, your storytelling was nice reading.

This morning, we took it vantage of an upgrade offer moving from club class mini suite to an owners suite as well. We are in 8067; I will be maintaining a blog with pictures every day.

Also, in my opinion, the videos from this ship specifically available on YouTube are horrible, rather with some folks holding their phone vertically or just really bad quality overall.

This entire summer I had planned on paying you and others, like CFFlutist back for the information you gave out- by creating modern videos of the ship and posting them in 4K for others to enjoy for a few years to come.

Looking forward to documenting Pacific Princess in here post-upgrade era.

Thank you again for the motivation.

Cheers,

Bob

https://boards.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?t=2330837

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Were you not taught, in addition, research for yourself? If so, that means you would have taken into consideration that during this time of year is 'hurricane season', this is historical and not a one time event.

 

You still reference about X and their wallets, you still ignore that X has far more liability in this than a few individuals who do not want to travel due to 'perceived' challenges with a departure port which does not prevent ships from sailing. Either you are going to be on the ship or you are not, by personal choice and for no other reason. Personal for sure and your call.

 

 

How did you not think about that? Just a question and not an attack lest you think it be one.

 

bon voyage

Perfectly stated, Bo.

zz1956 seems to be another one of those common “angry“ posters not taking responsibility for his own grown-up decisions [emoji53]

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It's just good because you don't have to fight the crowds trying to get breakfast off of the buffet in OC. ;) The service is better than in the MDR, and the food is slightly better. I love the smoked salmon, yogurt parfaits. DH likes the Eggs Benedict.

Blu Parfait is the best reason to go in there in the morning!

(See you on the Edge inaugural next year!)

Cheers,

Bob

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We are new to Aqua Class and in reading reviews about Blu, the universal comment is that the Breakfasts are wonderful. Can you give me an example of what items are included that are so good?

The food is amazing!

Happy to oblige... please check out the video I made:

Cheers,

Bob

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That is one of the pains of CC, must resize photos before posting.

Link to our website is below. There are 186 photos on 4 pages of

thumbnails. Click on each one for a larger view. Select the size by clicking on the leftmost button of the three on the top right corner. Download by clicking on the rightmost button.

 

http://www.websailor.org/index.php?/category/982

Very much appreciated, thank you.

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OP;

 

Great pictures. Thanks for posting them.....:):):)

 

Bob

Bob,

On this thread thanks to my spouse who found it. To CfFlutist for posting the updated (though thumbnail :) pics)- and a general update. Thank you.

To you.. thank you again for your daily transcanal posts in May. We are going 11-23 Nov, Adriatic... will repay the courtesy to all with daily blog and thorough pics/detail.

Cheers,

Bob

Just returned from an 18-day cruise to Norway on the Pacific Princess staying in Owner's Suite 8067.

This was the second cruise since the drydock and some things were not completed yet.

 

Was told there was new carpeting in the atrium.

 

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Hello,

Do you have (link to) a photo blog/album from your trip, specifically- Pacific Princess shots?

The thumbnails photos you display here, while APPRECIATED.. are rather small :)

Respectfully,

Bob

My husband and I thoroughly enjoy sailing on Celebrity. It is our line of choice, and we have recommended Celebrity to many friends and acquaintances who now feel the same. Please pay attention to the disastrous rollout of the new Celebrity website. It has become impossible to efficiently shop for new cruises for several months. It is slow. It doesn't give the complete itineraries at a glance. It doesn't maintain search information so that you can look at a cruise and then go back to the original search results, but instead makes you start over repeatedly. It gives inaccurate information. It is cumbersome and slow to accomplish even simple things that the old site, although flawed, made easy. On line check in is problematic. Updating profile information is error ridden. Even logging in is sometimes impossible, or takes multiple tries. It continually locks us out of our reservations. It has made a simple call to Captains Club a trial because since its inception the call volume has increased exponentially. Wait times, which never happened prior to the rollout, now often are in excess of 15 minutes. Things like booking shore excursions, dining, and new bookings, as well as service on existing bookings that could previously be accomplished with a website visit, now require calls to Captains Club. The website drives your business. Although the picture of you on Instagram visiting the Edge build site was nice, and necessary, please pay attention to the website problems. If you want to fill your lovely ships with passengers your website needs to function properly. This new one, although beautiful does not do the function that passengers need.

Perfectly stated. X do not focus on tech as they should (IMO); rather- esthetics (of which they do an outstanding job) seemingly are allowed to consume their attention.

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