arizonaperson

Vino100- Well if you’re asking about the Royal Princess currently there is a live from thread( check it out, I believe it says live from the Royal Princess September 17 or something like that ) and yes masks are currently being required, but a passenger on board says there are sip & cover signs everywhere and there was a letter in their cabin that says masks required ,but many passengers according to the live from author says passengers are not wearing masks. Perhaps it will change when the itinerary changes for the Royal??

YOU might be aware? your title doesn’t Match question. Might be able to get title changed.

ceilidh1- following along with you on your live from. Great /funny information. Especially your drinks . Fun cruise. Cheers!

No one can predict better flight time except you. If everything goes as planned and you do walk off probably can make the 10:30 AM flight but you never know if the ship gets in late into Fort Lauderdale or there’s a issue with clearing the ship etc. etc. Understand your plight with the 410pm flight is quite late and what the heck do you do with all the time on your hands. I would rent a car or get a day use room or go on a Princess tour that drops off at the airport if feasible.

Check with your Airline -they are the ones that determine what time you can check in your bag. Sometimes it’s four hours sometimes it’s three hours prior to your flight.But yes you will be able to get into the terminal ,you just won’t be able to go beyond the checked bag area ( I.e. security check point)where more than likely there is no place to sit or very minimal places to sit while you wait to check in your bag. Maybe baggage claim area has chairs to wait while bag check in opens for your flight? If you have a carry-on only another story, but not many cruise passengers probably have carry-on only ??

Yikes, almost like you have to have two drinks in your hand and visit guest services ,hourly so that you can enjoy your drinks while getting charges taken off . Does not sound fun or What one would like to do on their vacation ,but love your writing style and your attitude

We have brought flowers onboard in San Pedro,CA for embarkation. I have never bought/brought onboard in a port. Even though your flowers for a one week to 10 day cruise would be pretty much dead and gone by the end of your cruise ,I do know that you cannot take them off the ship with you.

Yes, I now see second letter stating out of abundance of caution masks required.... I’ll be following along,great Live from, thanks.

Wow, I’m sure your daughter is not happy that the friend she brought along to cruise with is chatting for hours on end with somebody else and not her. Well hopefully it gets rectified soon for all of you.

Perhaps their medallion or tv is acting up or there is still a bunch of passengers still getting onboard??

I love following along on your live and really live today. Perhaps nobody is doing this Sip and cover because it’s confusing to them. Your health advisory letter says mask recommended not required.

Tonight in the music hall and I’m not sure what other nights the band Aeromyth will be playing Aerosmith music . Great band to go listen to ,if you haven’t already. We see them on land often.

Definitely needs to be.

Yes you may wear shorts in the dining room for breakfast and lunch. Probably not for dinner,but..... probably definitely exceptions to that. Probably can get away with it on the first night of the cruise in case your luggage didn’t make it to your room or perhaps the second night if your luggage never made it to your room. Maybe the last night of the cruise you might be able to get away with it. So pretty subjective at dinner if you can wear them or cannot wear them. If you would like to wear shorts in the dining room at dinner -try it and report back to us ,so we can see what your experience is. But shorts in the dining room at dinner are not supposed to be allowed. And probably this thread needs to be closed by the moderators .I think the question has pretty much been answered for the author/op and any popcorn jokes and drink jokes to the OP is just rude .

I thought the bus drops everyone off at the airport?? That’s where the group of us were dropped off after a cruise on a princess transfer. The only hiccup we had was some of our luggage( 4 of us traveling) was not on underneath our bus and we had to wait for every bus to come in ( at SEA)so we could get our luggage and go check our baggage for our flight. And you have no control over if your luggage is underneath your bus because you don’t see your luggage from the time that you put it out ( outside cabin)the night before, if I’m remembering correctly . And our bus was “sealed “ so that we did not have to get off the bus at the USA (Blaine?)border for customs. OP also asked best way to get from drop off point to downtown Hotel. I would check your hotel see if they offer airport to hotel transportation or Lyft or Uber always works out

To the op.All of you go individually or together to the bar of your choice and get alcoholic drinks or non-alcoholic drinks, bring them back to your cabin & have a couple people go to the buffet( if it’s open) prior to sail away and load up some plates & put them in your fridge. You can also- each person bring on board a bottle of wine .you could serve wine if you & friends are wine drinkers in your cabin . ( by your user name you enjoy wine)you would just have to get wine glasses from your wine steward ,of course all of this needs to be done before sail away ,so might be doable. Otherwise just enjoy the sail away with no food and drinks and then all of you go as a group to dinner shortly after sail away, if that appeals to you . Enjoy.

Yes, unfortunately you will have to be out of your cabin by 8 am or 8:30 am,Give or take so your cabin steward can clean the room and prepare for the next guests.With that being said you could probably be out of your cabin and stay on board until the last people are off ,but then you Will just be waiting in the lounge or wandering the ship with hand luggage.(. Unless there is a back up of disembarkation ,you’ll probably be off at 10 AM at the latest and that might be pushing it if you stay onboard until the last moment) You could also sign up for a princess disembarkation tour ,they usually have those and you can inquire once on board. I’m assuming you have a late flight from Fort Lauderdale? you could get a day use hotel room in the Fort Lauderdale area ,we did that once when my husband wasn’t feeling well and we had a late flight and he just wanted to sleep. Or you could rent a car and have a place for your luggage and go tour around the Fort Lauderdale area and beaches.

Yes you definitely can plate food from buffet and take it back to your cabin. Probably no lids,but ask for one. If not, just place another plate on top as a lid. Also nice to do with like cheese and crackers and snacks like that to have drinks out on your balcony if you have one or just in your cabin while you’re getting ready for dinner.

To the OP/ author. Perhaps Good Spirits bar which was formerly La Patisserie will have a coffee bar on deck 5??

Got it,for the 3 People that responded .I don’t believe the OP responded. My comment was -I just never thought to do this when I go on a cruise. I go on a cruise to cruise.when I go on a land vacation I go on a land vacation. Yay to all of you that have done this ,had nothing really to do with expense when I made my comment, well sort of .I just can’t imagine spending money on a hotel which I am assuming is a five day cruise to Cabo overnight ,but I’m not even sure on the length. So I just thought perhaps the OP got a smoking deal on their cruise and they weren’t concerned with spending money to stay in a hotel for whatever the experience be. .I still just can’t imagine wanting to spend the Money for a hotel room and food ,but again just my opinion. that’s why there’s choices out there in this world and it was just an interesting topic to me. Appreciate everyone’s response to me ,but this is definitely not about me .this was answering the Op/author to see if it could be done. Again I just find the topic very interesting . I don’t think any more comments need to be directed at me we need to go back to the original person.

Op your question is an interesting one to me. I hope you are able to do an overnight in Cabo. I would never think to do this while on a cruise ship. I would not want to pay for a hotel and meals off the ship when the ship is right there waiting for me with all the food that I want and a cabin a.k.a. hotel room that I’ve already paid for. But perhaps you got this cruise very inexpensive and a hotel for one night won’t break the bank??

If you have a travel agent they may be able to advise how to set up this large table or call Princess. Are you sure all 8 of you or all 12 of you want to eat together every evening at the same time? Maybe not all of you will want the d.r. Every night. Which makes Dine my way possibly feasible for you? Maybe one family will want the buffet, one or two nights.Maybe kids will eat early at pizza place and then go to kids club.Maybe the one year old or Adult needs a nap after a long day in port and the large table you set up for say 6pm goes empty. You may want to all dine together now,but once onboard in November,too many variables?

You can ask for early walk off when they give you your disembarkation instructions usually 3 to 4 days before the end of your cruise. If you walk off with your luggage that means you don’t put it in the hall the night before ,you just walk off at the designated time.

Long Beach airport is great. we fly PhX to LGB often.My family lives local,so no experience with public transport at LGB,but no Princess doesn’t offer a transfer from that airport. But pretty sure Uber/Lyft/taxi and possibly a shuttle service would work perfect for you. Long Beach airport to the port in San Pedro where the Discovery Princess leaves from ,it’s not that far. Keep your flight into Long Beach ,easy airport to navigate. You might find more information on the West Coast departure area of cruise critic if you haven’t already checked there.

Squire5000, i don’t believe Princess has ever restricted children in the specialty restaurants onboard. Lots of “ stuff” in the current Captains Circle magazine that don’t mean squat. Example: the wonderful medallion. To quite a few passengers it is not great. The magazine says feel like a vip no matter what stateroom you have. Not when your drink that you order never makes it to you. I think Princess is trying to make it known that they are family friendly to compete obviously with the cruise lines that have a lot more activities for children . I think for anyone responding or reading if children are going to bother you on a cruise probably need to do an adult only cruise line which I don’t think there’s very many of them out there. Agree like anything else yes children can be restless and cause a scene and yes their parents can also be oblivious to it. Of course yes adults can do the same thing so I don’t think there’s gonna be an overwhelming amount of people in a specialty dining with children, probably a few here and there . Few days ago I was with an acquaintance at the movie theater and they made comments all throughout the movie but I didn’t shush them but I felt like it ,they were sitting right next to me. And they’re old enough to know better- 80+ Years old. So it just goes to show you, you can’t have control of every situation. People are going to be people and do what they want .