Sea Hag

Renting a car is a good thing to do there. Waimea Canyon on Kauai shouldn't be missed (both the canyon name and the island name may very well be misspelled). We did a spectacular doors-off helicopter over the volcano on the big island once. We booked with an outside provider for this.

I got the email, chuckled a merry chuckle and deleted it.

Yes, you do.

The very - very, very - last thing I want on a cruise ship is more shopping opps.

I only see the past cruises after the medallions went into usage. So, that surely wouldn't correct my loyalty level

We solved those problems by simply never going ashore in Mexico. We enjoy the ship while the crowds are gone.

Did you email the redacted copy to Princess? My understanding is that this no longer works, even though it's been hit and miss. I went through the Stockperks app for our next cruise. The credit was applied quickly, and at no time did I ever give Stockperks access to my brokerage account. I uploaded the redacted copy in the app, and that was that. I also understand that there's a Stockperks email address for sending these to if a person doesn't have a cellphone. Don't know what that was, but it's around here somewhere.

This. You simply don't need to give them account access. I can't see why anybody would do that.

How do they handle it if the crew appreciation price goes up after you pre-pay it? Or, as in the case above, you get a good deal? Do they apply the amount you paid and subtract off each day, leaving you with some charges left over, or do they credit the full, current amount for crew appreciation regardless of what you paid?

I'm with you on ketchup, but at home I get siracha ketchup. Best of both worlds.

If you contact all the Princess departments and people, as you should, you may or may not ever hear back from them. Even if you do, it could be months. I fired off a complaint to customer relations only once, and although I did hear back it took so long that I'd forgotten I even sent it. I got a call from a very nice lady, whose job seems to be making the soreheads like me go away a bit happier. Have you considered trying to take this to the online media? Companies these days seem to pay more attention to bad online reviews than they do to actual customer complaints.

We did laundry in the ship's laundry room only once, and that was on a Princess ship. We agreed to never do that again. Of all the things I can think of to spend time on when we're on a cruise, doing laundry has to be last on the list. If we can't pack enough clothes to see us through, we send it out to the laundry service. Different strokes for different folks - I knew a gal who spent nearly all day in port trucking laundry back and forth to a land-based laundrymat. In Hawaii yet!

And HAL has a cruise that goes to the eclipse and then continues on to Hawaii. I think it's 22 days, and there was availability a few days ago.

This. I'm on that cruise, and it's been sold out, not sold out, then sold out again. No way of telling what it is right now.

The last several cruises, we've gotten wifi, which we purchased as a standalone. We get 50% discount for elite, and we share one wifi package. With the price going up, I'll be deciding on a cruise-by-cruise basis. Probably won't get it for Alaska, since shore days I'll have connection through my service provider when we go ashore. Same for California coast.

I had that problem and finally bit the bullet and called. Took a while, but it actually got fixed. I don't know the email address, but if somebody provides you with it, you should be sure to list out the booking numbers for all your upcoming cruises. Common sense would say that if they fix it for one, it'll be fixed for all. But common sense doesn't apply here, and the lady on the phone insisted on putting in a ticket for all three of mine.

That sounds like ours!

It definitely is a bottomless money pit - as long as you keep throwing money into it. We don't book packages. The math for plus or premium just doesn't work for us. We also don't spend much on board either, in fact I refer to us as a couple of freeloaders. We don't do many excursions, and we don't do specialty dining much either. We only do specialty restaurants if they're included in a promo. We have a wonderful time on our cruises and don't feel deprived at all. We find that there's plenty to do on the ship without paying extra, and we enjoy getting off the ship and just walking around. I don't know if you'll be able to have a good time without all the extras. Only you know that. If you can't do that, then you'll either decide whether to pay whatever or just not cruise. It's a tough decision, isn't it.

That is so weird!

There's actually a lot wrong with it, but I've decided to think it funny rather than get mad at it. When I bring it up, it's a real crap shoot as to how much, if any, of the data for our next cruise loads. Sometimes all of it, sometimes none of it, mostly most of it. For instance, I opened it this morning and it knew who I am and what cruise is next. Off to a good start, or so one would think. It couldn't find any travel companions, although it's certainly shown my hubby before. Couldn't find any dining info. Couldn't find the purchased wifi package. Next time I open it, I'll probably get a different result. Never a dull moment with that thing.🤣😂

I vote for no. I don't think so.

When I commented on this thread before, something hadn't occurred to me. We sailed on the HAL Westerdam last September, and this lunch menu is either identical or very similar to what we had then. One sea day, I tried the chicken and waffles, which I'd never had before. The waffle sucked, but the chicken was really good. It is! Editing to add a link to the HAL lunch menu on that board. Go to page 15.

I could stay happy with this for quite a few days. At least longer than our needy cat allows us to cruise.

A bug in a Princess app? Oh no! How could that possibly be? 🤣

We've always washed our hands constantly while on board. I think that really helps. These days, we still do that and we avoid crowded situations as much as possible. We still wear masks when we're in crowds or on airplanes. Even doing these things we caught covid last September while on a HAL cruise.