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Yes, that's the one good thing about Princess when you have a suite you can get full breakfast brought to your room. Also we only dine in the specialty restaurants when we go on Princess. Usually the Crown Grill is our choice. It is only $29 per person more to have a fantastic menu with chilean sea bass, lobster, filet mignon etc. so as a penthouse suite we can have that brought to our rooms so we don't have to go into the restaurant. I will check to see how crowded the tables are together and if there is enough distancing will probably go there. Otherwise, no. We will walk around the ship on the open decks but don't choose to go inside where there are lots of people. Will take stairs and not use elevators. Will get off in the ports but probably just walk around as we have been to these locations for the most part, the only new one we haven't seen is Turks and Caicos. So it will still be a nice trip. I love just being on the ocean. It would be a wonderful break from the routine at home. No cooking for a week in itself is a luxury to me. We have an aft wrap around balcony on the 12th deck and it's going to be finally cooler in January and will enjoy just sitting out there with a nice blanket and just enjoy the views. The islands are so beautiful and the water so clear. I will venture down to the International Cafe and grab a coffee or snacks. I don't really care for shows, although husband loves them, but I will not let him go this time. Last time we took Princess he came down with a horrible chest infection which put him in the hospital for a week. They never found out what it was but pumped him full of all kinds of antibiotics. He had never had anything like that before and he is a nonsmoker. That's why I worry about the ventilation system on Princess. China still has lockdowns and I just feel they know something that we don't. If you will remember in the beginning of covid even currency was destroyed and clothing and personal items of anyone diagnosed with covid. They were burning bodies in mass graves but now people are cruising in cabins where the people before them may have had covid. That is worrisome to me. Hope you have a wonderful time and stay safe. If it was my choice I would be on Regent or Oceania for this trip but am stuck with Princess because we had a $6,000 FCC we had to use or lose.

I love just being on the ocean. It would be a wonderful break from the routine at home. No cooking for a week in itself is a luxury to me. We have an aft wrap around balcony on the 12th deck and it's going to be finally cooler in January and will enjoy just sitting out there with a nice blanket and just enjoy the views. The islands are so beautiful and the water so clear. I will venture down to the International Cafe and grab a coffee or snacks. I don't really care for shows, although husband loves them, but I will not let him go this time. Last time we took Princess he came down with a horrible chest infection which put him in the hospital for a week. They never found out what it was but pumped him full of all kinds of antibiotics. He had never had anything like that before and he is a nonsmoker. That's why I worry about the ventilation system on Princess. China still has lockdowns and I just feel they know something that we don't. If you will remember in the beginning of covid even currency was destroyed and clothing and personal items of anyone diagnosed with covid. They were burning bodies in mass graves but now people are cruising in cabins where the people before them may have had covid. That is worrisome to me. Hope you have a wonderful time and stay safe. If it was my choice I would be on Regent or Oceania for this trip but am stuck with Princess because we had a $6,000 FCC we had to use or lose.

I am getting more worried about an upcoming cruise booked for January. So many of you ended up with covid even on Seabourn and Regent it is shocking. We had booked a Princess cruise back in 2020 so that our son and his wife could come with us just for a simple Caribbean cruise but it was when covid was only beginning and people were being quarantined on ships for days and I cancelled and was stuck with FCC. We have finally booked one for January 2023 and have a penthouse suite so expect to have all meals in our room on our balcony. Hope we can avoid covid. We have not gotten it so far. Husband is immunocompromised so it is still so riskyi. We have now taken 4 Seabourn cruises Canada New England to Ft. Lauderdale, France (sailed down the Seine) and last one in 2019 to Alaska. We have only taken one Regent but enjoyed it very much went to many places in Spain, Portugal, Gibraltar and Morocco. Loved the included tours. However, we find the food much better on Seabourn. I only eat seafood and even am picky about that but they manage to accommodate me every time. I have a standing order for lobster and can get it every evening if I want. Also if there is a dessert or item that you appear to like a lot, the waiter will note and make sure it is there for you at your next meal even if you didn't order it. Their galley tour is amazing. But I agree I am not thrilled with their wine selections. The thing I hate most about Seabourn especially was the Alaska cruise. Unless you pay for a strenuous Zodiak style tour you don't get to see the glaciers up close. They anchor about a quarter or half mile from them and unless you are on tour you don't get to see them. When I was there was shocked to see a Disney cruise ship go right by us, and put down anchor just yards from them. I am sure everyone on that way less expensive cruise got to get up close and personal with the glacier. We loved Oceania when we did a Russia cruise years ago and took another one in the Caribbean in 2019. We live in Miami so any cruises that go out of here or Ft. Lauderdale are easy for us. We especially like to book the penthouse suites on Seabourn that are right outside the Observation Bar. We can just hop over there in a second to grab goodies and take them back to our room during afternoon tea. Sorry you did not have a good experience but it seems hard to compare since you were in quarantine.

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I have no hesitation but my husband who is in remission from leukemia is very very afraid and if I take him and he gets it will forever feel guilty. We are older so that makes the difference. He has had Evusheld as well as the vaccine. But omicron evades the current vaccine. I don't want any more vaccines had the first 2 and no boosters. Wish I had not even had that. I have unlimited free rooms at the Hard Rock Hotel in Hollywood and we live in Miami so it is a great getaway but we got something called parainfluenza 4 and he ended up with pneumonia so he won't even go there anymore.

I see your point. Thats why it is such a risk still to cruise. Thinking more and more about cancelling. Thank you. It wasn't so bad when they still required masking at airports and on planes but now as you said people aren't wearing masks at all. I truly believe they work as my husband had many many hospital trips and doctor visits throughout the last 2 years even though we didn't go outside the house for much of anything else except in the past few months started to at least dine outside. We always wore masks and wore an ionizer around our necks and still have not gotten covid. Others won't take that precaution.

I am curious. Why do you want testing ended? People who have had covid or are vaccinated are still getting it and can pass it on. So why are they excluded now? Omicron changed everything. The vaccinations only supposedly prevent hospitalizations but more and more people are getting Covid multiple times. What is the bother of a bit of time to take a test not worth it?

Maybe I can change my husband into Liam Hemsworth

Mara if you usually have aft penthouse suite we are on port side Baja Deck when they talk one balcony dinner and breakfast in the Sky can't we get it as often as we like in our suites as long as we pay the premium price for the dinner? I was told we will be able to do this as we don't want to use the main dining rooms at all on the trip.

I would think using your phone as a hot spot on a world cruise would be very expensive! If you do plan to do it get a special plan through your wireless provider to see if feasible. It would use a ton of data.