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Just curious on which port did you miss and what times did you get into the other ports? how on earth can a ship miss glacier bay ? It’s a whole day’s worth of sailing. What did you do instead? im sorry to hear about your experience.

Look at aft deck 8, cabins e630,e631,e632,e633,e701,e702,e703,e704. they are all labeled and priced at interior/obstructed ocean views but there is no obstruction. You’re in between the life boats. I picked e633 on crown (same layout as ruby) and it was an ocean view at an interior/obs ov price.

This is probably the best reason to buy the internet package. When I was on the crown, I was dead to the outside world. Luckily I had cell service when in port or else I would have missed one of my excursion as they needed to call me that day.

Ask the excursion desk on options for icy point. You can search princess’ website for excursions options too. Here’s one for crown princess in July: https://www.princess.com/search-cruise/details/?voyageCode=3222N

So Skagway is canceled for your sailing?

We had two different bookings (two different rooms) for my family. I’ll check back later but it doesn’t matter much. My hubby is insistent that we’re not cruising next year so the fcc is useless. I may ask if it can be extended an extra year but again, that may not matter if we’re one and done with princess. people may be praising the company for doing this, but I think it’s too late. They should have been upfront with everyone who books crown. Give a warning about the engine issues. Cut the price or give the refund prior to the sailing. Many people do not cruise often so fcc is useless. This just makes people have to stay with a company that didn’t give them good service. If they gave the May 28sailing the same extra $100 obc as every other sailing, I may have a more positive view. But since we’re out that extra money, we’re not going back to them.

i won't comment on your username....go blue 🙂 i would have liked the obc while i was on the cruise, like every other sailing got...other sailings also got the 50% OBC...so again, the may 28th is left without the extra $100 obc that everyone else got. it does depend on the cruiser...if you didn't plan on cruising next year, FCC is useless. i wish they extend the FCC for two years....that gives people time to do another cruise. i'm one of those that like to have variety in my vacations each year.

Did you fill out the survey? My husband’s booking hasn’t gotten the email yet. He said he filed it out. I wonder if it depends on how bad the survey was?

Yup. A lot people on the board has said they are one and done. We have said that. Strangely, some were happy with the fcc and will use it since they do a lot of cruises. i guess it depends on the type of cruiser you are.

Got the same email but the fcc useless to us. We weren’t planning on cruising next year. I wish they just given us the extra $100 obc like they did with the other sailings. Why was the May 28 sailing the only one that didn’t get the extra obc outside of the original change???

I just got an email from princess based on my survey from the May 28th sailing: “As a gesture of concern for your experience and gratitude for your understanding, each guest will receive a Future Cruise Credit equivalent to 50% of the cruise fare paid on this voyage. The credit may be applied to any future Princess cruise booked by January 1, 2023 and sailing by January 1, 2024, ” unfortunately, we were not planning to do a cruise next year so fcc is useless to us. I wish they gave us an extra $100 obc like they did with the other sailings. oh well.

I vote for propaganda as one of the engine is ongoing maintenance but all of the letters they sent to the passengers talked about a second engine. Plus, if it was ongoing maintenance, you wouldn't be running into constant schedule changes every week. one week you have the ship getting to juneau at 4pm instead of 530pm. another week it gets there at 530 while the passengers are told 4pm. or icy straits is on the schedule and last minute (every week??) it's dropped. For the captain to say all of this is due ongoing maintenance? i don't think so. ongoing maintenance should not cause this much headache.

If you already been to the ports and wanted this next cruise to be different, then I would say stick with gb. An option is to look at a different cruise line that goes to gb if you’re worried about the speed of crown? first time to gb at the end of May and I loved it, even tho I knew the ports were short. it is a personal preference and priority. My hubby’s priority was gb “before it melts” so we stuck it it on crown. if you go on discovery, it’s to a different glacier and you see it only for a few hours (5-9am) so you have to decide if that’s worth the switch.

When I was at that dining room, the vibration and noise was too much for us so we only ate at the da Vinci room afterwards. The noise was also noticeable in the club fusion room.

Depends on when you sailing is. Just look at the weather a day before you get to Seattle. If you’re going next sat, it looks like alaska will be in the 70s. That’s shorts weather.