Sea Hag

My stainless steel "sippy cup" goes everywhere with me. Much better than buying water in single-use bottles.

Princess actually has two now that are billed as that. They changed the schedule of the Discovery Mexican Riviera to be at sea on eclipse day, and they changed the Panama Canal sailing of the Emerald to be at sea also in the eclipse path. I'm booked on the Discovery, but I'm still looking around for options. We had a wonderful eclipse viewing on the old Jubilee back in 1991, so I'm keeping an eye on Carnival.

Or maybe your shower curtain was shy? 😂

I agree with what you say about the coffee card swap not being profitable for Princess. If they can sell people a package with a per person, per day cost. That's certainly more profitable! But I'm not sure why you would throw in the part about people paying base fare and removing tips. What do you base that on? We pay base far, and we've never removed tips. Never will either.

You definitely know the correct way to eat this!

That's what we did, and I think I said that in the first post. Edit: I looked back, and I didn't really make it clear in the first post that we'd done exactly that.

Don't you find it weird that they would take an item that's always been a starter and offer it as a main instead? I, for one, have never seen that happen before.

On our sailing last week on the Sky, the twice baked goat cheese souffle was offered as a main, rather than a starter. We've always gotten it as a starter, and last week we ordered it as one anyhow. It was somewhat larger than the version we've gotten in the past but not that much larger. My hubby said that he would have been very unhappy with the portion size if he'd ordered it as a main.

That's too bad. Mine is the wrong color, and I've been getting around to getting it changed. I hate the thought of having to wrangle this more than once.

That wasn't our experience at all. One line that everyone was herded into. We didn't have a big wait either time we went there, but I'm sure that was one long line sometimes.

On the Sky last week, I called room service. After getting turned down on coffee packages, I swapped the entire mini bar for sparkling water. Not my first choice (coffee) but it was a nice second choice.

Crowne Grill: salted caramel creme brulee cheesecake. We like that so much that on the Sky last week when we didn't make it to the Crowne Grill, we just ordered it through room service.

Here's another minor complaint I have. No more elite/suite line at customer service, at least not on the Sky last week. Minor but annoying. I'm wondering how soon it's going to be that they lock a single internet package to a single device, rather than to one device at a time. That's certainly doable, and since they're shaking us all down for every additional penny, it seems to me that they'd see this as another revenue stream. I'm not all that angry at Princess, just several little annoyances that will factor into whether I continue cruising on Princess or go off and be annoyed by another company.

I've whined a lot about not getting to swap for coffee packages, but I was actually pretty happy with swapping for all sparkling water. That was really nice to have waiting in the fridge on those hot days.

I don't know about that. Right around that timeframe others were reporting the same result I got. I chose not to argue the point. Just to go away and complain about it. 😂

We just got off the Sky, the 2/25 sailing which must have been the one you were on. I called room service pretty much as soon as we got on the ship, and they turned me down flat on swapping the mini bar for coffee packages. Said that option was discontinued. Either they like you better than they like me, or you were lucky in who you talked to. 🙂

We just got off what I think was a full sailing. Didn't seem crowded to us. Can't say as to seating in the evening since we don't go to any venues in the evening.

Have you tried changing the number of people to see what shows? Sometimes or always a lot of cabins won't show for 2 people but they will for 3.

Sadly, Port Valet is only available for flights no earlier than noon.

I haven't heard anything on these items. They ought honor them as purchased but who knows.

Sorry, I don't know about that. I imagine it's extra cost but can't say for sure.

Yes. I should have said. 😃

We're on the ship now. I snapped this today at the coffee kiosk on deck 7 .

I don't have a solid answer on that. Just my own observations. We're on the Sky right now. Some of the food has been outstanding, some fairly good, and others just okay. Before this cruise, we were last on the Discovery and the food on that ship was much better on average. I will say that the buffet here on the Sky is outstanding.