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  1. I just checked the waiter style opener in the kitchen drawer - unfortunately it has a less than 1" tiny toothed blade - that means a no go? We drive to the port so no need to pass airport security, just the ship security... If it is a sure thing the room attendant can lend us one to open the bottle, I would be fine. He does not need to lend it for the whole cruise, just enough time for me to open the bottle.
  2. When I bought the tickets from Southampton coach to LHR T5 the website did not offer me any seat selection option. Where did you find the seat selection function? Edit - I see it now after I logged in my account - Seat Reservation is one of the extra service at 2 GBP each person. All 5 front rows are available. I guess there is no need to pay the extra given the tickets are bought and 5 rows seats not reserved, yet... We dont really care about sitting together either. On top of that I bought the 2 out of the last 3 seats available for sale on the time schedule we wanted. Should have bought it much earlier, i.e. 2 to 3 months out when it was 17.80 GBP (on all schedules that day) but when I remembered this thing, it was 1 month 3 weeks out from departure time, only 3 seats were still available! I promptly bought our 2 seats. Else it would be the next bus that leaves at 11am...
  3. Sky Princess transatlantic arriving on Mar 25 at 7am. We plan to take the walk off option to leave the ship as soon as possible. If by 8:30am we can walk off and taxi is available outside, we can make it to Nat'l Express coach station around 9:15am? I bought the 2 out of the last 3 available 9:45am Nat'l Express coach to LHR. Our flight is at 4pm to BER. Purposely get such a late flight in business class for fear we might miss the 9:45am coach to LHR T5. If we arrive LHR T5 before 12 noon, we would just head to the BA lounge to kill time. But the 4pm flight would give us a wee bit of room should we not make the 9:45am coach... The 2nd bus would arrive at 13:30...
  4. In other words we probably need to use Uber App for the very first time. Duh. I have been successful in avoiding using Uber so far so good, due it’s unfair treatments to the drivers and other unethical issues.
  5. We have done the National Express coach from Southampton to LHR before. Took a taxi from pier to National Express coach station, then their scheduled coach to LHR. This would get us to LHR earlier than Princess transfer and of course almost 50% cheaper. My question is, do the taxis at Southampton take credit card? Our last trip in this mode was several years ago before Pandemic. At that time I still had some GBPs left from previous trip so I could paid with cash which was less than 20 FBP. Alas the remaining GBP bills that I still have are replaced by new type several years ago. I only found that out on the last night at Renaissance LHR when I told the Front Desk if the Marriott Gift Card balance was a few pounds short to cover the stay, they could take the cash from this pike. The night manager went over them and told me only a 1 pound and a 2 pounds coins were still good. Lol. I later know the old bills can be exchanged to new bills at Bank of London or post office. Too bad I did not know this during our 4 days in London before flying to Rome. Thanks to the fact that contactless payment system is everywhere including in all transportation modes, we did not use any cash, plastic all the way. Now we are taking Sky Princess transatlantic disembarking at Southampton on March 25th at 7am. We need a taxi ride from the pier (no idea which one) to National Express coach station for our 9:45am coach to LHR. I hope the taxis would take plastic, and hope no one would pull the scam saying his CC machine not working…. I suspect many drivers would not like to take a short 20 GBP fare versus getting some ignorant passengers for a several hundreds FBP fare to London, so they may pull such scam. Anyone who took taxi at Southampton last year, please chime in. Your data points are much appreciated. 🙂
  6. It depends on how the sailings is shown in Princess system. Very often for a 14 days Europe cruise they are 2 voyages despite you book it as a single reservation. In those cases you will get 2 minibar set up. In those Caribbean cruises that return to Ft Lauderdale before starts the 2nd 7 days, it will be 2 voyages and 2 minibars. Transatlantic then continues to Europe for another 7 days, despite you book it as one 23 to 25 days sailing, again you will get 2 minibar set up. In the long past when elite internet benefit was free minutes, if you hadn’t logged in in the first portion of your trip, the system would eliminate your entitlement and only gave you the 2nd voyage entitlement. The Internet cafe manager would fix that.
  7. All 3 dining rooms have extremely similar set up from decors to table arrangements. As for the wait staff, there is no telling until you are at your table. The poster’s questions are very strange as if there will be any discernible differences in the MDRs when they are no surcharge to all passengers…. The only meaningful difference is the location. We do not like the Aft dining room that you need to get down from one level above. When there are events the corridor getting to the stair case can be awfully crowded.
  8. They fixed it. It wasn't there yesterday when I searched everywhere. At the end I bought it from the old Medallion App. Now it shows the "upgrade" bubble (to the 4 devices).
  9. Let me put it this way, Princess wants you to buy the Plus / Premium regardless it makes sense to you. If you dont buy it, then Princess STILL wants to gauge you by making you pay $10 for the Medallion sent to you. However, this option is not even available to those who live outside US and Canada, nor useful to those who left home long before the cruise, like we did last Fall when they only sent the Medallion 2 weeks before sailing. We left home a full month before because we had a private land tour in Jordan and Egypt. Yeah, when we returned home from the long trip, the Medallions were in the pile of mails that were held by the post office (I actually had to do some trick to extend the hold longer than the mandatory 30 days limitation). Based on several comments here on the recent Caribbean winter cruises that whether you were in the Green lane or the Blue lane, the difference was less than 15 min before you walked to the ship... In fact if over 60% of the passengers already had the Medallions and only 40% who didn't, 40% of passengers would go thru the formality than 60%, even they had to pick up their Medallions! So basically this yet another trick on your psychology to justify giving them extra money...
  10. So once you enable the WiFi hotspot, any device nearby can use the Hotspot "network" with the password, incl an iPad?
  11. It did not work earlier in the afternoon. All it showed were the Plus and Premium packages, no internet package. I KNEW I had seen it in the New App somewhere just a few days ago. Then I found it in the Old Medallion App and purchased there. Immediately after purchase, it still not shows in the New App, like urging you to upgrade to multiple devices, but it shows in the Old App. Now it finally shows up in the New App as 1-Device Plan. At least both Apps recognize our Elite statuses, despite we NEVER are able to log in with our Princess website credentials on either app, can only log in with Booking Number. It serves the purpose so I have not spent much time in trying to fix this glitch as long as it still recognizes our statuses. Princess should not make things so hard for the passengers. If it weren't due to RCCL not sending any newer ship except Odyssey of the Sea for Transatlantic, we would not be on Sky to cross the ocean. Oh, HAL is worse. We did the Rome to Ft. Lauderdale on Statendam last Fall. The quality of almost everything was SO Poor. As an example, their Dutch Cafe mimic the Princess International Cafe has only 1/2 or less the size and may be only 1/5 the choices of foods...
  12. It disappeared from my account. It was there a few days ago. Today when I tried to purchase the internet package, all being shown are the Plus and Premium Upgrade Packages! No any other package whatsoever! I later found the Medallion Net package on the Old Medallion App. Thank goodness I haven't uninstalled the old app after downloading the new app.
  13. I too, was able to purchase it thru the Old Medallion App. The option WAS in the web version of the New App as well as in the New App, IS NOT THERE today when I tried to purchase the internet package. I did not even know about this news, just it was a thing on my To Do List that I decided to cross it today, i.e. get it done today. I wasn't able to find the Internet Package at all on both website and New App. I KNEW the Internet Package WAS on both the Web Version and the New App just a few days ago when I checked. Now the option was taken away from my account both the web version and the new App. Thankfully I still have the old Medallion App on my phone, that I almost uninstall it after downloading the New App a week or more ago. Also thankfully there was an active link "to continue use the old App" or something like that, at the bottom of the screen, right below it told you to download the New App. The Medallion Net option was still in the Old Medallion App, and allowed me to proceed to purchase an Internet Package.
  14. When I called earlier I opted for the "Call Back" option, when the chat function said there were 64 persons ahead of me... I seriously doubt that 64 number because chats usually have a cut off after a number of persons waiting to get connected ... An overseas (probably from Philippines judging by the accent) rep called back. By that time I already made the purchase on the old Medallion App, but the package is a no show. She verified the package was in my booking now. If I wanted to see it (Yes, I do), go to the Booking on the website, and go to the function labeled as Document which let you print luggage tags (never use that as we always only take carryons), then find Print Travel Summary - the package should be listed in the Travel Summary. She had to guide me step by step to find that Print Travel Summary function - then at the very bottom of the Summary before the fine prints, there it is, the 1 device internet package for the full itinerary. Whew! Princess website itself is always buggy to me. It almost always gives me log in failure saying the credentials are not recognized, but if I keep trying, after the 4th try I am able to log in... I dont know what is wrong with its server. To this day we still are NOT able to log in normally on both the old app and the new app, have to use Booking Number to log in. Since it serves the purpose I quit trying to have this "fixed". The stark difference in the performances of RCL and CCL is very tell tale on which company is better run.
  15. @jean-lynd Thanks you so much for the heads up. Also thank my luck that I decided to take care of this item from the To Do list this week end, as DH's remaining balance to spend to earn the sign up bonus is down to just over $400. So I figure I would take care of this before the next statement date. I am glad I still have the Old Medallion App on the phone. The internet package purchase is still on the Old Medallion App as Medallion Net package. This option is removed from both the website version of the app and the new Princess App - to prevent people buy the package BEFORE THEY RAISE THE PRICE... What a low class act!
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