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This is exactly right. My DH is cruising several B2B cruises right now. I am always thinking about whether I should join him for one. There is a 10-night cruise coming up (the others are all longer than two weeks) and I think it MIGHT be safe. Yesterday he was on the phone with me and stopped to talk with his cabin steward and I miss that. I miss the wonderful cabin stewards saying “If there’s anything at all that you need, just let me know”. I miss the shows and the food and the drinks. After two cruises, he finally got what used to be known as a traditional dining table, so I wouldn’t have to deal with long lines outside the dining room before meals. It’s all there, waiting for me. But then I remember being sick for four months after just a few days on the Ruby in late March. Coughing so much I couldn’t talk for four months. I know that I am still getting my stamina back after that. And, for me, though he is there, though the cabin would be perfect, the the dining would be perfect, I can’t convince myself to join him. People say we have to get on with life. At home, I go out frequently, I meet friends, I don’t wear a mask and I don’t get sick because I’m not in the close proximity of a cruise ship for days at a time. I AM getting on with life. I’m just not cruising.

Thankfully. We wouldn’t even be having this discussion if that were not the case. But, so many have mentioned, a risk analysis is still required. And it’s no longer the risk of getting COVID, it’s the risk of what it will do to your body when you do. Just because you cruised when the mandates were in place without getting COVID does not mean you can expect the same now, when mandates are largely dropped (or ignored even more than before). You have to cruise with the expectation that you WILL test positive, either on the ship or after you return home. Happily, as you said, that no longer means what it did almost three years year ago (can you believe it’s been that long?). But until you’ve gone through it, you just don’t know how your body will handle it. And that’s the risk now. I really think, if you’re determined to cruise, getting the virus before hand, while you can deal with it in your own home with your own doctors, is the luckiest thing that can happen to you.

My favorite lunch menu items have been the floret family (broccoli and cauliflower with a light tomato sauce and pine nuts] and chicken korma. For dinner, ciappino (fish stew), the twice baked goat cheese soufflé and the sorbets form dessert, which I’m not sure they still offer.

Hard for any preventive measure to be effective if no one complies.

I completely agree. But I also wonder what impact this will have on ports on more isolated islands such as in Vanuatu, New Caledonia and Fiji which the Majestic is scheduled to visit. I can’t imagine they’re going to greet cruise ships with open arms when they don’t have ready access to facilities to treat COVID.

https://www.perthnow.com.au/travel/covid-outbreak-looms-on-majestic-princess-cruise-ship-c-8830820.amp?fbclid=IwAR2-X-BZv-uNYkf3sQ4JX4FMVFlBWedsvX2FQj_Tc15PLmhYEtlLosoDON4

I’m not surprised.

I home test before visiting someone’s house or going out to eat with friends. I can’t imagine getting on a cruise ship without doing so.

We did the same thing in Pisa, took the shuttle with the intention of taking the train, but found out that bus was easier, cheaper and faster. They know how to price their product!

My dear grandparents, who were born in the first decade of the 20th century, were convinced (!!!) that drinking anything but a hot beverage with a hot meal would cause the food to become an undesolvable mass in the stomach. No matter how I tried to convince them otherwise, they were resolute. I drank coffee when I dined with them from my early childhood. That’s why the original remark struck me as being so funny.

Enjoy Princess Plus! My DH says he’s not sure that he can ever cruise without it again, he likes it so much. At least on sea day intensive cruises. 😆

Why not? Many people do just that.

I understand the first point, not sure I understand what “normalized for FCCs” means.

Any idea what that percentage is for Princess?

Can’t wait to read about your adventures. We have good friends on the ship for the past couple of cruises and the TA, and they’re enjoying themselves very much. Thanks for posting!

My first trip to France, many years ago, we had a picnic on a cliff overlooking Cassis. Fell in love with that little village. I’m really enjoying your pics! Thanks!

It used to be that way, but it think that now, regardless of how it is booked, if it is also sold as segments, Princess automatically treats it as separate segments.

I’ve been a member of Cruise Critic for over 20 years, and have learned which members post to offer helpful, critical information about cruising and cruise lines and ships and which ones only seem to come out of the woodwork to criticize other posters. I really appreciate comparisons between cruise lines, and, chances are, I’m going to see them most readily if they’re on the Princess board. I also appreciate the comparison more coming from a (mostly) Princess cruiser, as I can trust that I would probably feel the same. So before we censor conversations that compare other cruise lines, positively or negatively, to Princess, I guess I’d advocate that we not worry about the fact that some fellow CC members get their knickers in a twist and attack when something even remotely negative about their chosen line gets brought up. Ignore, scroll by, whatever it takes. And they have the ability to do the same.

I learned when we went around the world in 2018 (not all on a cruise) how little I could by with, and it’s remarkably little. Multiple climates, no laundry facilities…the secret is layers and quick drying fabrics. Toiletries are what mess me up, especially if I’m going to be gone for months. For a few weeks, I can even leave a lot of them behind.

I agree completely (but thought I was the only one who felt that way). People will argue that that kind of Aaron Spelling entertainment was simply what we used to watch, but, looking back decades later, I find it horrendous. When we know better, we do better, and I know now that the crew making light of Julie McCoy’s claim that she was being stalked and sexually harassed was not entertainment.

Yep, ever since they abandoned their Escape Completely tagline. I thought that one had universal appeal.

https://www.shoreexcursionsgroup.com/ has some nice port excursions for Hawaii cruises. DH did one just yesterday in Honolulu.

We’ve always simply gifted our duplicates (which, by now, are all of them) to a fellow passenger. I still like the crystals best (and I’m missing South America, by the way, so if anyone is looking to unload theirs…). I don’t think I kept even one of the wooden boxes.

I was on the third Royal Princess cruise ever, when it was the only Royal Class ship, and identified that using the Piazza the way they were was going to ruin Crooners. I guess that’s another reason we can tolerate the Majestic…they just removed Crooners altogether (though have a similar use of the lounge next to the casino).

Every time I read something about COVID on the Coral Princess, I think about that couple from Brisbane who were reported on several media sources to be living on the ship for two years. I thought at the time how optimistic they were to be doing this in the age of COVID. I hope they are cruising on, unscathed, and will remain healthy.