NMTraveller

When we were at the cruise terminal we were not the first in line. But we ended up being the first to board the ship as our EVisas were in order. Many were trying to do their paperwork at the cruise terminal... Probably not the best place to do it.

Which class of ship are you on? Whether Oceanview Cafe is busy may depend upon this. We enjoyed Sushi on 5...

This seems to be the new norm. We have seen kids disrupting fancy restaurants with the parents totally ignoring the kids. At the better restaurants they will handle it.

I would. No kids running the halls would be a plus...

My apologies as I am more confused. I always knew that Australian cruises did not permit vaping. However what about cruises that are not from Australia? I would like to see a Norway cruise where vaping was not allowed for Americans... I suppose that this does not exist now and perhaps will in the future? Show me a cruise contract where vaping is not allowed for a non-Australian cruise...

We took our kids on RCL when they were younger... Unless your kids really enjoy hanging out with an older crowd 😁 I would want to do RCL as a kid. Celebrity as I got older...

Thx. I wonder if this will apply to HAL? Why did guest services respond differently to me? I suppose that I will believe it when people post the updated cruise contracts...

My response was also semiserious as we have had 20 something pages on what a polo shirt is on this board 🙂 Anyways I would expect the dress code to be elevated for a Michelin Star restaurant.

Is this from a cruise contract. Otherwise it is nonsense... Show your cruise contract details and perhaps Princess will be considerable again ... Once they update the contract it is a real deal... Once they stop showing that vaping is allowed on the TVs on cruises it is the real deal. Show the proof... Show a cruise contract with vaping disallowed... I don't buy Joe at Celebrity told me blah blah blah. Prove it in the contract... My e-mail was different from the others. And one of them did not respond... Perhaps Princess will fix their contracts, but until they do or they get back to myself with something different, they are outside of my booking zone. Still waiting for a post where the language has been changed...

Am I required to wear a "polo" shirt. Asking for a friend. 😉

Or go to a luxury line ... Or shorten cruises and do more land vacations ... When I first started cruising the cruises had the better service and prices. Now all of that has changed...

And many more posters are claiming that this policy has existed in the contract for many years...

If they maintain the no smoking/vaping in the cabins, then yes. Those are my minimum requirements for a cruise. So far Celebrity has that. The no smoking in the casino is a bonus.

There were a myriad of responses from Princess. I had my own... None of them were consistent. 😁 Perhaps the reason for my skepticism.

We will have to see. One cruiser said that they heard this from Princess 😁 Why is it in the cruise contract? I may consider them in the future if they really do remove this vaping in the staterooms. Others had the same policy on their TV. I have no desire to wait and see while cruise pricing goes up ... The best response that I got out of Princess was that we will pass your concerns on to managment... 🤣 What about HAL? Apparently they are in the same brand and have the same language in the cruise contracts? Show me the updated cruise contract and perhaps I will believe...

I expected to like the Edge, and I did not like it as much as my S class cruises... YMMV. I like M class the best, then S, and then E. I do not like the IVs, so I book an SV on E class. I miss the forward-looking views on E class. But if they are going to sell those views to the highest bidder then E class is a contender. In my case E class was the only one that had a cruise where I wanted to go. My next cruise is on Apex 🙈

For whatever reason I do find that E class seems to be crowded wherever I go. I expect to spend most of my time on the balcony on my next cruise... We always go early and seem to find some of the best seating... You snooze you lose... 🤣

Which one? We are going to London/Paris next year.

The choices of other cruise lines has gotten smaller. Celebrity appears to be one of a few mass market lines left that does not allow vaping in the staterooms. I just cancelled a Princess cruise for that reason...

We find ourselves booking shorter cruises and flying to another country for a land vacation.

I find it amazing at what the cruise lines will do as justified by the cruise contract. Apparently they don't have enough ships built to deal with demand (now) and are able to reduce the experience and still fill their ships.

I call this the nickel and dime experience. Once you pay for all of these upgrades you find out that you could sail on a more upscale line for less or the same. On my last cruise I should have brought an accountant onboard to track the daily upgrades 🤣 For my next cruise it will be steerage for me 😁 Now the VIP theater seating is not where I would sit anyways ... Even the upgrades have upgrades ...

LOL. That is why the level of investment returns are returns invested with inflation... Real returns... The real returns are what determines whether a retiree investing in CDs can survive. Lately they can't. All returns should be adjusted for inflation for a real comparison from decade to decade or from year to year.. Why is this not a known fact??? If you get a 15% return and the inflation rate is 15% you are not making money... I made high returns during this period, but again I did not make money... Lesson learned...

As they are now, just not to the same level . #1 and #2 ...

You would have refinanced your mortgage. I am not sure that you will ever get 3% again ...