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At this specific point in time, the CCL shares owned by cruisers who cruise and use the OBC perk are a liability to CCL.

The airlines don't count DME against your carry on limit. Depending on the size, you the airline might have you gate check your walker. If you have a light weight walker with no seat, the flight attendant might be able to store it in the closet of the aircraft if the size is small enough when folded up. Present yourself to the gate agent and ask if you have to gate check it. If so, have them print out the tag to do so and have them attach it. You will be able to use it to the end of the jet bridge and will leave it there. Once you arrive at the next airport, it should be waiting for you to collect at the jet bridge. Don't forget to collect it, as it probably won't be waiting for you at the baggage claim of your final destination.

Just roll with it. We book a guarantees all the time and are happy that we are on the ship cruising. Location doesn't matter as long as we get the category we paid for or better. One of our cruise buddies uses a online TA's booking engine to look at available cabins and to try and figure out what cabin he'll be assigned. It's to the point where he's obsessed until his cabin populates. We keep telling him that the exercise is fruitless and to get a life!

Any FCD purchased on or after April 5, 2023 will have a validity of one year. I was on the Sky Princess when the change happened and purchased some right before the change with two year validity.

Was on the Majestic in June to Alaska and GS was giving out free tokens for both laundry products and washer/dryer.

Sometimes Princess shuffles passenger cabins to spread the load of the cabin stewards. Sometimes on sailings that aren't full, there are banks of cabins that aren't booked and the cabin steward assigned to that area wouldn't have very much work to do. Not sure if the crew appreciation earned would also take a hit.

It happens. Wait to hear from your CVP if you can get your cabin back or be assigned a cabin in a similar location/deck. Below is a thread about an unwanted upgrade...

As a U.S. Citizen with a U.S. Passport, you do not ETSA to enter the U.S.A.--it's your home country. This is a generic e-mail that Princess sends to all passengers. I guess Princess is crossing their "t"s and dotting their "i"s when it comes to informing passengers. The airlines have a similar warning that pops up when making direct reservations involving travel to the U.S. The warning shows up during the booking process regardless of what passport you hold. The airlines only drop it once you enter a valid U.S. passport as your travel doc.

I stayed in a club class forward facing corner mini-suite once. It was Shanghai to Sydney in 2018 on the Majestic Princess for a repositioning cruise. I've stayed in a forward facing Obstructed Deluxe Balcony numerous times. The most recent was on the Majestic to Alaska September 2022. My one experience where the balcony furniture had to be strapped down due to the wind was on the Royal Princess on a transatlantic to Fort Lauderdale. Granted, each time I've stayed in these forward facing cabins, it's been Princess who has assigned them; I book guarantee cabins.

Maybe--if you disable the motion sensors that control the hallway light and lights underneath the nightstand, which turn on to the slightest bit of detected motion.

Princess can't afford to turn away passengers based on their choice of dress. There's a reason why CCL has kept Cunard small, the demand for that style of cruising is low. RCCL has a fleet of over 20 and growing and the RC group's stock prices reflect that what they have to offer is the trend, which is why Princess is following suit. Since you are a pilot, passenger's dress doesn't affect the safety of the aircraft or other passengers' flight experience, so no point in trying to get passengers to dress up like in the early years of flight. Dress as you wish.

The unenforced warning in is in the fine print of the Book Confirmation's of those who book these cabins and in the deck plans.

I guess that's why RCCL, Celebrity, and most major mass market cruise lines dropped their dress suggestion enforcement--because because people felt out of place? I feel out of place when people tell me what to wear.

That's self insecurity issue. The way people dress around you won't fix that. You chose to wear your outfit, own it. If anyone wants to dress up fine. If anyone doesn't fine as well. That's the thing, cruising, based on the price and value, should be for everyone. Not just the select who want to dress smart casually/formally all day, everyday as Cunard discriminates. That notion is out of touch with reality. Clothes cost money. If people are retired, like my parents, they don't even do smart casual anymore like they did when they had to work. They walk around in jeans and t-shirts on a daily basis. They would have to purchase outfits just to go to formal nights on their cruises.

If it gets too windy, cabin steward is instructed to tie down furniture. There will be notes on your booking confirmation that say something to effect of balcony use while in port only, but that has never been the case. Curtains have to remain shut after dusk to prevent light from the cabin from interfering with navigation.

The Interior cabins on Royal Class ships actually have larger desks than a Balcony or a Deluxe Balcony. For a regular interior, the desk spans the entire length of closet. For a sideways interior, the desk spans the closet and bathroom.

Both domestic and international. Don't fly anything higher than economy, so cannot comment on higher classes of service. All examples below are though EZAir SFO-LHR for an April cruise this year, outbound on United and return on Virgin, both N/S was $675. At 75 days, when I first booked the cruise, it was $800 and at 60 days it dropped. SFO-YVR for a June cruise this year, R/T, N/S on United was $396 at 59 days. It was $520 on Air Canada R/T, N/S, at 72 days. SFO-JFK for an August cruise this year on Delta R/T, N/S was $296 (main cabin, so we had to pay for checked bags) when I booked the cruise at 51 days. SFO-LHR on Virgin and FLL-SFO on Delta for an October TA cruise for my parents was $461 at 55 days. When my parents booked originally booked flights in February of this year (they book their cruises way in advance like many on the forum), flight on United outbound and Delta return was $698. Not sure if we're lucky, but refaring or booking EZAir around 60 days has worked out for us. I think at 60 days, airlines are worried about filling their flights, like cruise lines are worried about filling their ships after final payment. No guarantees--things could go either way. With EZAir the flexibility of being able to cancel/re-fare up to the 45 day mark is great.

Here's the locked thread that discussed this topic recently. Happy reading!

For those not wanted to be constantly checking EZAir, I've had found the lowest prices in the 90 to 60 day before departure period. The airlines will drop fares at this time based on seat availability. Also, as of recent, I I've had the best luck on Friday evenings and nights. Not sure if this is coincidental, but I found low(er) fares when managing my flights during these times the last 6 times I've booked through EZAir. The most recent was SFO to FCO on British Airways metal all the way through with 2.5 hour connections for $800 in economy. Not sure what is it about Canada, but even my Canadian friends in Vancouver gripe about how expensive it is to fly from Canada internationally on major carriers.

I think this is the post that is being referred to, Reply #25.

The more reasonable explanation is that yield management is assigning cabins. You don't have a say in whether or not you will be chosen for a move down/move over offer. Not sure what Princess' criteria for those are. The following applies to a single cruise sold as 2 segments. Check each segment individually if cabins are still available. The single cruise sold as 2 segments is capacity controlled. Princess usually blocks availability after final payment on the single long cruise knowing that they might have more last minute takers on the shorter segments. If this is the case, you have to check availability on the shorter segments and see which cabins are showing as available on both segments.

Correct, the 45 day countdown is from the flight date of the first flight segment. In the Cruise Personalizer under the Travel Tab, there is a Manage Flights button. When you click on that the Manage Flights Screen populates and the final date to make changes on an EZAir Flexible Fare reservations is shown in a box on the top right hand corner and is always 46 days prior to the date of the first flight segment. Princess says you have 45 days, but their systems always show 46 days and theoretically if all goes as planned (which it doesn't always) the reservation will be ticketed at 45 days. There was one instance where EZAir hadn't ticketed my reservation at 42 days and after calling EZAir, I was able to cancel inside the 45 day grace period, and re-book at a lower fare. I think the metric for allowing a change is if the reservation has been ticketed. (The exception is, of course, if the airline has a schedule change or flight cancelation.) I'm trying to figure out what EZAir's fault is in the OP's situation.

EZAir is a consolidator. Air consolidators are not able to alter reservations once they are made. In order to make a change to a reservation, the consolidator has to cancel the booking in it's entirety and make a new booking, which can involve penalties. EZAir has worked out to have the leeway of being able to cancel up to 45 days in their contract on Flexible Fares. Such are the rules with booking with a consolidator. If you want flexibility to make to your hearts desire, best to book directly with the airlines, but mostly likely there will be penalties or additional costs. You will also miss out on potential savings and the ability to cancel and/or rebook up to 45 days prior to flight departure with no penalty by booking with EZAir. If your EZAir reservation has been ticketed, you should be able to pull up your reservation on the operating airline's website and check for the ability to upgrade there. If you are on a codeshare flight, make sure you have the PNR issued by operating airline's reservation system; sometimes it's the same; more often you will have a different PNR.

What might make a difference is whether or not EZAir has ticketed the reservation. Some airlines require the reservation be ticketed as a prerequisite to allowing for upgrades. In this case, you would have to pay EZAir in advance of final payment so your air reservation can be ticketed and fully manipulated by the airline.

You can change the class of service when you go into EZAir to book your flights. There is a drop down menu where you can select the class of service. If you purchase a economy class ticket through EZAir and want to upgrade after the fact (paid upgrade or using miles), then you have to take that up with the airline directly.