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Last year (Sep '23) I was on the Crown and had no issue connecting to my corporate VPN using Medallionet (via Cisco AnyConnect). So I planned this 14 day Alaska cruise on the Grand I'm on now and I was hoping to work a large portion of it. However evidently Princess has made a change and the firewalls now block a lot of VPN's. My corporate won't connect at all and even the cheap one I have through the Opera browser won't work. I talked to a couple of the different "tech" people on board and they stated this was a recent change. So just throwing that out there for anyone hoping to use a VPN to work. I was able to work in the first port by sharing my AT&T internet connection from my phone but that won't help me while we're cruising the glaciers. 😕 They are even blocking access to some (not all) of the VPN sites which is strange. I can get to NordVPN's site but not Cyberghost (for example). Someone suggested throwing a VPN on my phone and then sharing my internet out through that (which I'm doing already with medallionet) so I may give that a try but my job also frowns on the use of VPN's as they have a strict policy about working outside the US (even though I'm in friggin' Alaska).

Finally got my shareholder benefit added to my cruise the week after next. \o/

I'm in the same boat. Reached out via the website and e-mail last week. Nothing yet.

My CVP suggested I re-submit again and use the attached form. I'll let you know how it goes. shareholder-request-form.pdf

Based on what I read on Facebook and here I submitted to get the shareholder benefit (in addition to my military benefit). It appears the person at the other end of the shareholder e-mail didn't get the memo the CVP's got (see screenshot). That being said I forwarded this e-mail to my CVP so we'll see what happens