PescadoAmarillo

I agree with what the others have said. The Sapphire is a wonderful ship for any itinerary but especially for Alaska. We just did B2B Alaska cruises in late July-August and I blogged about it starting here: http://pescadoamarillo.blogspot.com/2023/07/an-anniversary-cruise-to-alaska.html

Yes.

It was served in the dining rooms and buffet on Christmas Day, pre-COVID.

We were assigned one once on RC. It was heaven. We had all our dive gear with us, and that large bathroom and shower were perfect for rinsing everything out and hanging it to dry. We still fondly remember what we called our “scuba suite”.

That’s rather specific. Bad steak? Here, have a pedicure.

The passenger laundries.

Thanks for starting this thread! We just received the summary of charges from our July 26 cruise, and, knowing Princess, I checked our credit card to verify that the charges matched.

Every time I think that I can no longer be surprised by anything Princess says or does…I am. This makes absolutely no sense, and any Princess customer service employee with an iota of knowledge would understand that. I agree, send their response via snail mail to the contacts @Thrak kindly provided. They need to see what is being sent/said to their guests.

That is breathtaking.

That will be amazing. I’m a little jealous about that. I saw some great pricing for that cruise just yesterday, but our flowers are not going to buy and plant themselves. I hope you’ll bring us along via live from on that one also!

We received an email about that from Princess in the past day or two.

Were you successful? I’ve had to do this numerous times over the years, but always pre-COVID, when customer support was better (IMO). There was a department called Load Management that controlled that, and they were generally will to work with me to change. Cabin not normally bookable for a B2B to one that could be. I had to go through the usual Princess support but they would get Load Management on the call and it got taken care of.

I agree with the comment about motion. In a balcony cabin at the very front, I actually got seasick on an Alaska cruise out of Seattle. The cruise before (this was a B2B) we were just a few cabins back on Lido and it made a huge difference. But we love that location, and, yes, the noodle bar might have a little something to do with it.

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If you lose your dining reservations (and you may well), I’m think it’s independent of the new app.

If it’s an entirely new app, that won’t happen.

Agree, and I hope they’ve also tested it for B2B cruisers, and have enabled one or more of the B2B cruises to be cancelled without throwing the whole reservation into chaos and requiring an hours long phone call to fix. There are a lot of cruisers doing B2B Caribbean cruises after the first of the year, and most of the problems we had with the existing app related to making changes to reservations. Actually, they should have given the beta to @Steelers36 to try to break. If it passed his scrutiny, I’d be 100% convinced it works.

When it comes to Christmas movies, I’d consider that a plus.

Gosh, that went too fast!

At least Fox Sports is giving it its props…two hours of pre game hype, and I’m here for it.

It’s not on MUTS? Sacrilege.

I have just gotten caught up with your live from. It’s been pure joy to read of your adventures and see your photos. I look forward to reading the rest. Thank you for taking us along. This happens to us every single cruise, always on the first day of the cruise or just a day ahead, and once on board they have no idea what triggers the onslaught of emails.

I love that few hour sail from Port Arthur to Hobart, and it’s best when you do Port Arthur first, as you did. Such beautiful scenery!

I was just going to mention that. We had 8 or 10 cruises booked on the Pacific Princess for winter 2020-21. Their cancellation was handled quite differently than COVID-related cancellations occurring at the same time.

Towel rack while in the pool?