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I started to put in my answer "Just relax and wait and see" and then I looked in the mirror!! Can't give advice that I can't follow myself!! 🙂

We really can't know what is going on and whether it will be on time. But the complete silence from Princess (and their marketing department) on rolling out this brand new ship design is utterly baffling. And leading to all this worry.

I imagine it could be any dinning room and could possibly change depending on the cruise. You might need to wait until on the ship.

I’m glad you were able to cut the traffic line too as that was a cluster for us when we did it. Glad they are improving the process.

Yeah, no need for the Go Lounge then.

Nobody on any cruise in any cabin on the Sun Princess are able to book specialty dinning yet. Right after they announced the Love dinning experience some people were able to book it. But it was a computer glitch as almost the next day they took down that ability and those that had made reservation didn’t have them anymore. Keep following this thread because as soon as people are able to again, someone will post it here.

It would not be worth it for you. You would be going backwards.

I see what you did there!! 🤪

They’ve cut back so many elite perks that I can even tell what’s left! It’s almost useless to me on cruises lately! We don’t even have the satisfaction of showing off our black cards at the bar anymore! 🤪😝😛

Agree with everything said here. It will be hot. But from my recollection there was only one day that I found it to be TOO hot. And we were touring a park so we just found shade. So I think it goes back to you and your tolerance for heat and then make a decision from there. We are all saying it's not too hot "for us". Can decide that for you. Enjoy. It is so beautiful there!

And I did!!!

Everyone on here is experiencing the same thing if they have a Suite booked. They just haven't added "Signature Collection" to their verbiage yet. All learning curve things we will hope are fixed by the time we sail!

A perfect example of you get what you pay for. Suites are WAY better and the service is too. Celebrity is slipping a little bit in service but I'm almost over Princess. The Sun is really going to decide for us if we close our account and walk away.

Head over to the Sun Princess thread to keep up with your upcoming new experience. We talked about it there. Yes on DMW it shows Reserve Collection when I was expected Signature Collection. But so is everyone else. They just don't have it in the system yet. That's what they call the Suite and "Club Class" experience on the current ships. Haven't made the change to "Signature" yet.

I have 35 Princess cruises in my history and I'm ready to drop Princess too. Just heard in the Sun Princess thread that a bunch of folks from the Sky are moving to the Sun after the current cruise! The running joke on our Dec 2nd Sky cruise was "all of the good ones must have already moved to the Sun!". Now I'm worried about the "Signature" service on the Sun. I hope Princess hires some new folks to teach them about "service" or I'm done. I'm paying a lot to travel in a suite and will expect A LOT better service in the private dinning room, lounge and pool deck then what they give today!

Nooooooooo!!!!!!!!! The running joke while on the Sky 3 weeks ago was "all the good ones must have been moved to the Sun already". I REALLY don't want the crew from the current Sky on the Sun. See another thread specifically about the bad service on the Sky.

My opinion is that they should follow up to make sure it happens. Not just make one phone call and then wash their hands of it. They are there to fulfill requests so you don't have to call room service. We also asked for another lounger on our deck and that took 3 days to fulfill. Every day they asked us if the lounger was there yet. They should KNOW if it's there yet as they should be following up. Why have the Suite Concierge if they are not replacing what I would need to go to other departments for. Don't have these problems on Celebrity (now I've opened up a different fire storm!). Like I said, once I lowered my expectations of what they should be doing (ie nothing), I had a great cruise.

And I was on the Sky the week before YOU and thought the review was spot on as well. We had the EXACT same experience at the sushi place. An hour for ANY food and then all at once. We just lowered our expectations and still enjoyed our cruise. As said, Take5 service was exceptional as was Crown Grill Bar but the rest of the crew were slow, not helpful and not really that concerned about service.

Does economy allow 2 checked bags? We bring a third bag for longer cruises. Sorry, but I would rather pay for additional luggage than do laundry on vacation. I am a severe over packer but could scale it back to not do laundry. Granted, we are two men so we have more mix and match options to not pack so much. My clothes are expensive and I don't put them in the laundry at home so I definitely wouldn’t send them out on a ship. I agree, only limited items would I send out.

You are my favorite poster on this entire website!

Unless you are in a suite leaving out of FLL. The week before your cruise, the Go Suite Lounge will call you and not leave a message. If you don’t answer the phone you loose your chance at the lounge. 😋🤪

Underwear, socks, undershirts and t-shirts. That’s it. And I sure as heck am not doing laundry on vacation. We wear dinner clothes more than once since we are lonely wearing for 3-4 hours. Especially since I’m also wearing an undershirt. I am not hanging clothes on my cabin! I pack enough that I need.

Wow! That’s great. Mine couldn’t even arrange for us to get a carafe of coffee sent to our cabin every morning at 7:00am. After two days of completely screwing it up we cancelled the request. Yes, they brought us down to skip the walk off line but by the time they did this we were over them.

The suite hosts on the newer Royal class ships are a joke. They say they will do things for you but are basically inept. Asked me if I wanted some reservations in the Sanctuary upon embarkation said “perfect, I’ll go up there later today and see what I can get”. Um, they will be sold out in the next 30 minutes. You don’t know your own ship? And every single cruise I have to tell the dinning room staff that if I order wine to eat with my meal, don’t bring me my appetizer until I get the wine. Again, these things don’t ruin my cruise but frustrate me from a service perspective. We will see if The Signature Restaurant comes close to the premium suite dinning rooms on other lines.

Agreed. I still am very concerned about Princess trying to do suite level service. Their service has never been good and now they are trying to elevate it?!? I love Princess but I forgive more mistakes because “I’m on a cruise” than I would expect to at a suite level. They have one chance to wow me or we are done.