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We did the 15 day Panama on the Coral 11/17 sailing and found the food quality in the MDR especially and other areas exceptional, some of the best quality food on a cruise. Apparently, this head chef gets many accolades on whatever ship he is on. We are not foodies, however, we know good quality food when we have it.
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CCL up over 8% already this morning, must be all the cruises we are booking for the upcoming years!!
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Love EZair
Last year we did a land sea with Princess to Italy for a week then a 10 day med cruise out of Rome and flew all legs business/first on United/Polaris with access to the new Polaris lounges in all airports. I think we were at $5500 for flights for both of us.
SFO > Newark> Venice
Barcelona>Zurich>SFO
I priced them out outside of Princess on United website and got over $20,000.00 for the same flights.
VERY happy with EZair..
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To add, they recommend CUK..from August.
That's why today I'm going to suggest buying Carnival Corporation -- NYSE: CUK -- as a better alternative to buying Carnival Corporation -- NYSE: CCL.
Both ticker symbols represent basically the same thing -- a cruise line stock currently trading near 52-week lows after lowering guidance last month. One difference between them is that shares of Carnival/CCL confer an extra vote at shareholder meetings, that Carnival/CUK shares don't get. Otherwise, they're pretty much identical. Both "stocks" earned $3 billion over the past year, are pegged for about 10% earnings growth over the next five years, and pay a dividend north of 4% -- twice the market average.
And yet, Carnival/CCL shares cost more -- $45 and change, versus less than $44 for Carnival/CUK. And as a result, the $2-per-share dividend that both stocks pay works out to a 4.7% dividend yield for Carnival/CUK, versus only a 4.4% yield for Carnival/CCL.
If you like the idea of buying a cruise line stock for 10 times earnings, therefore, and love the idea of collecting twice the dividend yield of the average S&P 500 stock, it seems to me that buying Carnival/CUK instead of Carnival/CCL is an easy choice to make.
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Lets get into the weeds on this one if you may know.
Between CCL and CUK, CCL having one extra vote than CUK, CUK is less expensive by a few bucks and has a slightly higher dividend.
Does Princess honor both CCL and CUK and is their any reason to prefer one over the other?
CUK trading volume is much less than CCL.
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3 minutes ago, john_galt said:
Thank you very much..saved for the future.
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FAX?? Yikes, LOL!!
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Interesting, so you send the paperwork to Princess how? and how much credit are we talking?
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17 minutes ago, emmittowl said:
We did. Alex&Kevin,you,and us wore out six stools.
LOL, that we did.
Is this Dan/Carol? Or?
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7 minutes ago, emmittowl said:
I think we wore out the two bar stools next to you, on that cruise. Whats a GG martini?
Grey Goose, well if you were on the 11/17 Coral and spent any time at Crooners, I guarantee we crossed paths. I was the tall guy, really good looking. LOL
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10 hours ago, Mud_Shark said:
The three ports I was looking forward to on the TA were Gibraltar, Canary Islands, and Azores. The Discovery only stops at Canary islands and its departure is just too late to work for our schedule as both of us have annual work commitments in early December . Not sure we will make the switch. We still have a lot of time to find a replacement option.
Don
We were actually looking at two different cruises, we may have to do our plan B which was the Celebrity Apex around the same time. Apex is the newest sister ship to the Edge.
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Don't know about the Star, but the Coral has had the change and I agree, lots more space on the center tower without the TV's there, plus they seemed to always be rattling around and making noise up there, better on the wall.
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Yah, the 2 for 1 in Crooners was the BEST.. sad it has gone away..
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5 minutes ago, polmcs said:
Let’s just say that I had “more than a few” Vesper Martinis on the Royal over Thanksgiving 😉 All hail the PBP.
I am a GG martini man myself, and between myself and my better half, she likes GG cosmos, we put away our fair share of libations over the 2 weeks we were on the Coral. Had a blast (SF>FLL) Panama Canal full transit. I think we wore two of the bar stools out at Crooners LOL..
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11 hours ago, CruiseVA said:
I'm all in on the Chairman of the Board, not on the current menu. I hope they'll make me one.
It is, it is now named under the original name, a Vesper martini. Had one on the Coral a couple weeks ago.
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Just checked my princess account and the booking still shows as normal, no change or any sign the cruise has been canceled. Odd as I did get the e-mail of cancellation.
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We just got off the Coral 2 weeks ago from a SF-FLL full transit and had a blast, food was fantastic in the MDR's. If your intent is to do the canal as the focus, you MUST do the old lock sets, the history of the locks and just seeing the engineering up front is really something. The new locks are too neat and clean and more industrial and functional.
Although the Coral is showing her age (cabins are showing some wear) the food was exceptional and the public areas were nice and clean.
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We just got of the Coral on a Panama Canal full transit (SF-FLL) and we had Crystal Geyser bottled in our room an on the ship.
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Wonder why? Just too far out?
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I also just received the e-mail from princess... the cruise was canceled...crap..
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4 minutes ago, Ombud said:
I'm booked on the 16 day TA from Rome on November 4, 2021
We just booked this cruise today, applied our FCD and all went well. I will have to keep an eye on it.
Star Princess question about make up mirrors
in Princess Cruises
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There is another thread asking this exact question, poster on the Star showed a pic of them still on the tower. We just got off the Coral and they were moved to the wall. Much better aesthetics and opened up the tower for storage. Will they move them before they transfer to P&O? I doubt it.