Kninkovich

As a former Californian that bartended for 12 years, I thoroughly enjoyed working in a tipping environment and providing the highest quality experiences that I could, knowing that (in all likelihood) the harder and better I worked, the more I would make. As someone who enjoys tipping for a job well done and rewarding those who go above and beyond from my adequately extended wallet, I'll continue to, thank you very much. What a terribly bitter and thin-skinned approach you have. I certainly don't think tipping should be made to be mandatory, as it certainly is being used as a tool to outsource wages, but the lack of understanding that you're going to end up paying for it in one way or another is breathtakingly naive, and it often seems to be the ones who are content to shop in the absolute bargain bin basement of rock bottom prices/big box stores that immediately resort to this type of complaint with the loudest cries about other people's wages, while undoubtedly shopping for the lowest possible price, everything else (including those precious workers you care about so much!) be damned. But please, do go on about us not imposing our values on you while you do exactly the same to us.

Well, I tried making a reservation a little over a month ago for our cruise out of FLL using value trips for the Hyatt Place in Fort Lauderdale. Filled out the res request, then couldn't remember if I entered my email so I sent a follow-up email the next day. Haven't heard back from either. Have tried calling (no answer, left a message) and tried emailing again (no answer). Our res was for 12/23/22. So far, not so good.

Thank you for this but I'm having a hard time finding the contract- I have what looks like their general passage contract on their website but 6-B-ii is covid related. Any ideas where I can find the applicable contract? I can't seem to find it when logged in, either. Thanks in advance!

Thank you for this, I will make sure to forward this to our friends.

Pkt, I appreciate your niceness and your optimism. It was great meeting you and others at the meet and greet with my wife, Rachelle. This cruise was an abysmal disappointment, though, and to couch it as less than that is lipstick on a pig. This felt like such an incredible bait and switch job that I'm just flat out not taking Princess again. Period. They can take their 20% FCC and shove it- that's a slap in the face as far as I'm concerned. As many posters have said, this is a trip of a lifetime/first trip in years/not sure if we can do it multiple times type trip, and they: a) knew about issues beforehand b) covered or disguised them until the last possible second c) sleight of handed when they couldn't otherwise fool us outright The excuse of 'the tides' as being part of the reason we were going to be late to Ketchikan was laughable! The tides? If *only* we could have known what the tides would be! I think the reason we're infuriated the most is because we basically convinced our friends (first time cruisers) to do this trip with us. The money part is irrelevant to us (well, not irrelevant, but certainly not the biggest reason for us, anyways) the part that gets us is that we put our necks out and Princess completely dropped the ball. There wasn't even a ball, they just kicked us in ours and then said here's some credit to allow us the opportunity to charge you more in the future! Our friends spent $2,200 for an inside room, full package. So let's say they get roughly $300/pp in FCC- great! That same $2,200 again in the future would be $1620, so now they're essentially in it for $3820 at a minimum, while the first cruise was an incredible disappointment. Unacceptable. There's just no way we're coming back after this unless they reach out and try to make it right (they won't, we're sure of it). Mike, it was fun being on your trivia team in Fusion- we almost won! Glacier Bay National Park is an absolute treasure and the gods blessed us with incredible weather. We lost out on our whale watching tour in Juneau (supposedly one of the best areas in the world at this time of year) we went half way on our train in Skagway, we sat in lukewarm hot tubs (the 2 out of 6 that actually worked) and the gangway went down at what, 8:50 in Victoria? This was absolutely a cruise- a cruise without ports. They took the money and ran. Props to the working staff, though, who were courteous, professional, and helped smooth things over with genuine warmth and hospitality. We always appreciate the hard working staff of a cruise ship and our room steward, all food servers, and casino crew were outstanding. We enjoyed our multiple trips to Sabatini's, Crown Grill was so-so and we never got to try Salty Dog Gastro Pub because like seemingly everything else on the ship that they had 25 months to prepare for, it was broken. Or whatever the excuse was. Supply chain. Covid. Staffing issues. I just don't care about excuses anymore when we're asked to pay full fare- that's theft. Scrap the Crown Princess for parts and maybe consider doing the same to a horribly unethical company that just alienated two of our friends as well as ourselves from ever cruising with them again. On to Celebrity and back on to HAL.