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12 hours ago, Thrak said:

 

We're booked on Discovery for next April and were very disappointed to find that Vines was not on the ship. Who needs the Salty Dog Gastropub? Certainly not us. On the other hand, we are looking forward to checking out Take Five. (Obviously not as a Vines replacement.) Hopefully it won't disappoint.

You will be  very  happy  with  Take  five. We used Take  5  on Enchanted and had  some  very  unique drink options.

Current cruise Crown Grill bar is Erica and Jun.

19 hours ago, ROXIETHEHORSE said:

We have the Plus Package on our 7 day cruise on the Ruby out of Galveston on 2/12/23.

 

I wanted to upgrade to the Premium. Website personalizer says to contact princess. Try chat…they want to charge me $4600. Try calling, wait 30 mins on hold, guy has no idea. Puts me back on hold. No one comes back. Try chat again. Am told that it is $20 per person per day…so that’s $280. He keeps trying to re-fare the cruise and comes up with all sorts of wild amounts to charge me. Ends up saying I have to pay the port fees and taxes again and buy the Princess insurance which I can remove later. WHAT?!?!

 

So after 4 hours, instead of an upgraded drink package we have nothing.

 

Someone at Princess also changed my sister in law’s birthdate after she had uploaded all her passport info and was in the green lane. Now she cannot log into the website to see her booked excursions or spa appointments. Her app works after 2 hours on phone with Princess, but unable to access anything on website. 
 

what the actual heck?!?!

I  am  sailing in  a  week  for  a  B2B.  Yesterday I called and upgraded both cruises  from plus  to  Premier   for  $25 P/P  per  day.  I  paid the  extra  amount  yesterday.

These are  both casino comped cruises

Sorry  you  are  having  so  much  trouble.  Hope  you  can  get  it  fixed.

10 hours ago, SKCruiser007 said:

Majestic Princess - January - Mexican Riviera

Holland American Eurodam - November - Panama Canal Sunfarer

Diamond Princess - December - Baja California and Sea of Cortez 

 

We discovered the thermal Spa with a pool on Majestic Princess, and will now be disappointed when a ship doesn't have one. Izumi on Diamond Princess was amazing.

 We  as  well love  the  thermal  spa....on  the  Regal  and  he  Royal so  relaxing  have  not  tried  it  on newer  ships.

Izumi  on  the Diamond  is definitely amazing,  we  spent  many  days  there on a  South  East  Asia cruise.

14 hours ago, BargainMan said:

How late have you got an upgrade offer from Princess? Has anyone got anything onboard on embarkation day?

received  that  my upgrade  bid  was  accepted 3  days before cruise  for  December 2022  sailing

3 minutes ago, gah_cruise said:

wow...three * £250 in 7 days...hope we are that lucky👌👌

hope you  are as  well...

2 minutes ago, gah_cruise said:

Lucky you....how many days were the cruises?

 

Both  cruises  were  7  days

Have upgraded  to  premier package  twice.

First  cruise   won  $250  and  another $25

second  time  won $250 three times.

On 12/20/2022 at 9:31 AM, suekel said:

I just got off a cruise to Hawaii.  While I was onboard, I received notice that my bid upgrade on a cruise in early January was accepted.  Be warned that there is no way to pay for this while onboard and there was no option to pay on my personalizer since the cruise was booked through the casino.  If we hadn't stopped in Ensenada so I could call, I would have lost my new cabin.  If you cruise a lot and book casino comped cruises, this could be an issue.  

This  happened to  me as  well.  We  were  on regal princess and my  bid  for  Sky  princess that  we  were getting  on as  soon  as  we  finished  on  Regal was  accepted  4  days  prior  to  sailing.

I  went  to  cruise  vacation  planner on Regal and  she  was  able  to  help  me  make  our  payment. Payment completed and we  sailed  without a hitch.

We  have  bid the lowest bid possible . 

1.  bid  accepted for club class  mini that  we sailed  on in  October (standard balcony orginal  cabin) 

2. bid  for December cruise  accepted for upgrade  from  standard balcony to deluxe balcony ( wanted  the couch) $35 p/p = $70. 

3. bid  still pending on 2nd  cruise  in  December.

11 hours ago, dog said:

What ship? What was the number of passengers?

Enchanted.  2100 passengers.

We  were on this  cruise and thoughts  from other  fellow casino prestige cruisers??

The pick  up  service from  hotel  to  port  and again  from pier  to  airport  was so  wonderful and  seamless. 

We picked  diamond and  did  the Peggys cove trip.

We decided to  try  the   upgraded package and  did  it 5  days  prior  to  our 7 day new england cruise.

cost $350

door  prizes when  entering  room =  $250  and  a  second  for $25

the  2 specialty dinings  were  delicious......  Sabatini/ bistro...plus $17/18 glasses  of  wine  that  we  enjoyed.

we  picked  3  photos that  were  perfect

we  tried many wines  ,  champagne and cocktails that  were over  the $12  regular  package....would we do  it  again.....in  a  heart beat,  unless  we  were traveling with  move folks  than just  us

just off  the Enchanted...the  expresso martin in  the Cronners bar  was  $15.

Bids  for   #2 cruise  on  B2B

 original cabin balcony  on  Sky  deck

We  do  have  to  change  ships   

Club Class Mini Suite A premium stateroom category featuring our best located Mini-Suite staterooms and Club Class benefits From $295 USD pp Get Upgraded     Club Class Mini Suite - Forward Facing A premium stateroom category featuring our forward facing Mini-Suite staterooms and Club Class benefits From $265 USD pp Get Upgraded     Mini Suite Choose a luxurious Mini-Suite with balcony which is substantially larger than a Balcony stateroom. From $165 USD pp Get Upgraded     Premium Deluxe Balcony This larger balcony stateroom provides outstanding views. From $60 USD pp Get Upgraded     Deluxe Balcony This impressive larger balcony stateroom gives you more space than a standard stateroom. From $35 USD pp

bids  for December cruise one  of  B2B

Original cabin standard  balcony  on  Caribe 

Club Class Mini Suite A premium stateroom category featuring our best located Mini-Suite staterooms and Club Class benefits From $290 USD pp Get Upgraded     Club Class Mini Suite - Forward Facing A premium stateroom category featuring our forward facing Mini-Suite staterooms and Club Class benefits From $260 USD pp Get Upgraded     Mini Suite Choose a luxurious Mini-Suite with balcony which is substantially larger than a Balcony stateroom. From $155 USD pp Get Upgraded     Premium Deluxe Balcony This larger balcony stateroom provides outstanding views. From $70 USD pp Get Upgraded     Deluxe Balcony This impressive larger balcony stateroom gives you more space than a standard stateroom. From $35 USD pp

We  have enjoyed  the  chefs table  several  times,  with  varied menus.

usually a  group  of 10-12.

you  will  meet together and put  on white coats and  go  into  galley  and  wash  your  hands and  be  treated to  champagne  and hors d'oeuvres (  that  are not  on  any  menu)

then  you  are  seated.  On  the  enchanted there  is  a special area and table  for  this.

The  meal  will  be coursed and paired  with  wine.

Desert will be amazing.

you  will get  a group and  couple photo  with  chef and Maitre'd.

Ladies receive  a  Rose and you  will also  receive an  autographed cook  book.

It  will last about 2  hours and food  is plentiful. 

2 hours ago, habita said:

My husband is going to need a wheelchair for embarkation. I remember seeing people being transported on Princess wheel chairs by crew members.Do I need to make a reservation, or hope that someone will be there to take him?

you  can  call  princess and  request wheelchair assistance and they  will  add  it  to  your reservation.  when  you  get  to  pier tell  someone   at  pier that  you  require  wheelchair  and  they will  escort you through checkin  and  then  you  will have  to  wait  for someone  from  Princess to  take  you on board,  once  on board  they  will take  back  wheelchair.

3 hours ago, phabric said:

I don’t drink alcohol or coffee/tea.

I booked a 10 day cruise.  
If I had booked with Plus it would be $1,500 CDN$/pp, the difference between Plus vs Standard

I booked at the Standard cruise fare.

I booked separately - tips, soda package, WiFi (Elite @ $5/day)

Total $422 CDN$/pp.

 

 

I'm confused.  Is  the  CND exchange  rate  that  high??   For  US a 10 day  cruise  with plus  is $50  p/p more  than  standard    ...10  days =  $500  p/p.

 We  can  be   happy  with  cabins aft or  forward  facing or  any where on  the  ship,  so  bidding  for  us  was  not  a  problem if  those were  the  assigned cabins.

our original cabin was  a  standard balcony and  we  were happy  with  that  cabin  so we   did not  bid on other  balcony  offers.  we  did  bid on club class mini  suites with lowest offer and our  bid  was  accepted.

13 hours ago, 1cruiselvr said:

We got our cabin assignment today. No free upgrade, just the exact category of our GTY booking.  So I added a mini suite bid to our other bid categories but only offered the minimum  we are happy with our D4 but thought we’d try for a mini at minimal bid cost. There are mini suites open per their website. I will let you know how it goes. 

 we  bid  the  lowest bid available for  our  club class mini and our  bid  was  excepted.

Hope your  bid is, as  well.

2 hours ago, PRINCESS Sweet Pea said:

Okay, I was thinking that the bid was for that category, and wasn't specific as to the location.   Like a Mini would be just a Mini,  (anywhere on the ship) and not like MA mid-ship mid-deck,  versus a lower category Mini.

How is that working?  I might bid for a MA, or deluxe balcony in the higher mid-ship mid-deck category.   But. def. not forward or aft.

These were my  mini suite  upgrade  options.

Club Class Mini Suite A premium stateroom category featuring our best located Mini-Suite staterooms and Club Class benefits From $315 USD pp Get Upgraded     Club Class Mini Suite - Forward Facing A premium stateroom category featuring our forward facing Mini-Suite staterooms and Club Class benefits From $290 USD pp

8 minutes ago, Matco said:

Congrats, when is your sailing? 

2 weeks  from  saturday.  now  all  the club class mini  suites and  suites  are all sold  out.  Ship  is  not  full.  lots  of minis and insides still show availability.

bid  on club class mini:  two different   bids...one  for midship and  one for  forward.  Received email  two  days ago  that bid  was not  accepted,  but not  sure which bid.

Today  received email  that  bid  was  accepted on  the  mid  ship club class  mini.  Payment information was  in  cruise  personalizer.  called  casino  and  made  payment.

Excited and  happy  for successful bid on club class  mini. 

2 hours ago, ROXIETHEHORSE said:

Has anyone booked the private car/driver (listed in excursions for Istanbul) through Princess for Istanbul?

 

Curious as to how it worked out.

 

TIA!

 

 

WE did  not  do  this  in  Istanbul.

We did book  private  driver in  Ireland.  It  was  the  most amazing  experience. There were 3  of us  traveling  together.  He  was  courteous,  timely,  excellent driver. He  was  very  helpful  as  we  planned  our travel day.  He  interacted with us ( this  is not usual per  the description regarding private driving not  being  a  tour  guide).  We  would definitely use  a  private  driver again  through Princess.