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Happy to help. It's a safe bet Princess will be more than willing to take more of our money. Still, I have to say a "free" cruise for the cost of my Premier package is about the best deal I have had on any line so no complaints.

I had the exact same issue. I just called Princess directly and the rep checked with the Casino desk. They added Premier for me no problem. I'm sure it will work for you also.

Definitely planning on watching the bids but we are going on a Panama Canal cruise the month before so this one is just a bonus.

It' a free interior room so balcony doesn't matter. We are going with Regal. Thank you everybody.

So I have a free cruise offer and my limited vacation availabilty limits it to one of these two options. I recently took my first Princess cruise on the Caribbean Princess and although we enjoyed it we did find her to be a bit dated. I prefer the Eastern Carib stops of Turks and Caicos and Dominican. Stops in Nassau as well but never liked that port. Western goes to the usual Costa Maya, Roatan, and Cozumel, all of which are kinda been there, done that for us. So the question, is Regal enough of an upgrade from Caribbean to make up for the better stops?

Oceano, Bottecelli is Reserve and Michaelangelo is traditional on Emerald. Da Vinci is walk in. And you are correct if you already have reservations booked it will not give you available time slots for those nights. Same applies if you have Specialty reservations. I was pulling my hair out trying to figure out why I couldn't get reservations for one night for our group of 5, finally realized 2 of them made specialty reservations that night.

Bunzini, you should be able to see your reservations by tapping "Book Dining" and then in the top right you should see a calendar icon with a heart in it. Tap that and you should see your reservations.

Just made my reservations for my February cruise on Emerald. Botticelli for reservable dining. Was able to get 6:40 reservations for 5 for the nights I wanted MDR. Looks like Da Vinci is for walkins and Micaelangelo is for traditional. The whole process was loaded with errors and took several attempts for each night so I suggest just keep trying until it works.

Do we know which dining room will be used for reservable dining on Emerald Princess yet?

Wr sailed on her this last February on an 8 day Caribbean cruise. They had just filled up reservations when we got there (and we went ummediately). But they put us on wait list. We showed up a couple days later and they got us in. Our attendant Iliajas took great care of us and made sure we had spots available on the other 2 days we wanted (probably didn't hurt that we tipped very well but he deserved it). No priority for getting a week. Honestly they were just writing reservations in a plain spiral notebook. I think the prices were as you stated or real close to that. Didn't do the cabanas so can't really say if they are worth it. I live in Wisconsin so for me the whole point of a cruise in February is to soak up as much sun as I can. Our ship was close to capacity but I never really felt like it was chaos, with the exception of tendering for Princess Caye. Gave up on that and went to the Sanctuary instead.

My husband and I both wore jeans or khakis to Sabatinis and Crown Grill on our Southern cruise in February. Did not feel out of place at all. I never wear shorts for dinner on a cruise (except for buffet) but did see some others in shorts. Wear what you like and you will be fine. Enjoy your cruise.

Sailing on Royal for the first time next month and have a quick question on the bidding system. I am in a Central Park interior room now. I bid on both an Ocean View Balcony and an Ultra Spacious Ocean View. Am I right in assuming the system would put me in the Balcony first but if I don't get that then would try for the Ocean View. I prefer the Balcony but would take the Ocean View if that is my only option. Thanks.

My family of 5 is booked on Wonder for March 17.Izumi Hibachi currently shows completely sold out on the website. Is it worth trying to get reservations as soon as we get on the ship or are we out of luck?

We have a beach cabana booked on our Wonder cruise next month and the price just dropped by$400. Already called and rebooked. Woohoo!

Suzanne they just did the same thing to my cruise on 2/25 except wr also swapped Montego Bay for Falmouth. Think there may be an issue with Grand Turk. Anyway, they did not change the map after they did it so the previous post was correct. Go with the written schedule.