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3 minutes ago, d9704011 said:

Although you have to do this pretty much every day of the cruise (or make up for it on a sea day!).

Not hard to do at their retail prices.

On the Sun all balcony category lead in level (DF) are accessible. So when you purchase a balcony guarantee that is what shows. Very few of them so not many, if any, guarantee bookings will get assigned them. Most if not all DF should be booked directly by those that actually need them.     

Yes, that has been an ongoing issue. Sometimes reloading the page helps or I just try again later.

9 hours ago, jannieb said:

We are booked on the Sapphire for an Alaska cruise out of Vancouver as a OV guarantee. Today at 35 days out our cabin number appeared on the app.  My question is can Princess change that again or are we now locked in? I'm happy with the cabin and thinking of cancelling my upgrade bid but if they can move us again I don't want to that. 

Yes, they can change it again.

11 hours ago, tha sista said:

Are there kiosks so one can load their gift cards on their account?

Just take a printed copy to Guest Services they will add it to your account.

2 hours ago, davy jones said:

The lingering question is "How much am I willing to pay to feel spoiled?"  Again, that comes down to personal habits and preferences.

Exactly. Each of us decides what "extras" we are willing to spend money on to feel spoiled. We don't do The Sanctuary, Spa, onboard shopping etc. So it is fairly easy to splurge a bit on the package and still convince ourselves that we are still being reasonable with our money. 

I'll bet hardly anybody complains if their drink charge goes on another's drink plan and neither get charged. Unless that other person is counting toward their limit. 

20 hours ago, ldubs said:

 

Yup, for some it makes sense and for others it doesn't.  I don't understand the endless posts about why or why not the purchase is justified.  It isn't exactly rocket science.  

The trouble is when you are like us and the math is right on the border. We have dine it both ways. I am a constant folio monitor. Not having to remember, or worse ask my wife what she bought, to determine if every little charge is correct, sometimes tips the scale in favor of the package. Going to GS to dispute a $7.00 drink charge is a pain. Hard to put a cash value on the convenience factor. 

1 hour ago, antsp said:

Whilst on the Sky recently they were chaging the lights to slightly less bright fittings

Yes they did ours as well on our Sky last month. I had the sensor taped over but after the change that was not needed. A big improvement, thank you Princess.

3 hours ago, charliedalrymple said:

I read this thread just to see whether "butter" was a typo.

I misread it at first as "charge for the butter" thinking it was an April fools thing. 🤪

On 3/31/2024 at 4:25 PM, akaCruiser said:

Just submitted my request last week for OBC on my Dec 2024 cruise and got it a day after I submitted my request via the app. Now I got to wait until maybe the end of year for apply for my Dec 2025 cruise OBC.

Same here  for our August cruise. I had the try after May 1 email before, but since others here have been successful with even later cruises, I tried again yesterday and bingo it worked! No April fools. 

13 hours ago, lorri111 said:

 

Yum! Does anyone know if this speciality cake option at IC is available on all ships?

Just off the Sky and it was at the gelato shop along with the other ones. Location varies by ship.

No such ship. Enchanted Princess? We use Uber. Much cheaper than the hotel shuttle for a couple and more convenient. Look on your boarding pass on the app for the check-in window. You can expect longer lines early. 

1 hour ago, Thrak said:

 

Are you saying that Peeps aren't terrible?

Everything is realtive.

2 hours ago, doghog said:

So what you are saying is you are getting all your ducks in a row. 😁

Maybe pack some duck tape to keep them there. 

The ones I have tasted so far were terrible. Not at all like peeps. 🤪

6 minutes ago, Mud_Shark said:

1) Our guest lecturer on our Pacific crossing was hiding ducks every day.  So maybe not exactly staff, but close to it.

2) In Australia, we found some ducks on our cruise and their tags had a link to a social media page where you were to post where you found the duck and then if you wanted, re-hide it and post that is was travelling again.  Some ducks had been on multiple cruises.  We took the ones we found on the Royal Princess and hid them on the Majestic Princess.

I like that idea. Kind of like the "where's George" link on some us currency, you can follow their travels. Maybe you will find them again as elite ducks someday.  

1 hour ago, ggprincess2004 said:

Be prepared, bubble wrap, zip lock freezer bags and then wrap in t shirts. Ship home in checked baggage. Simple.

We travel with carry-on only.

Looks like you may be driving home, but for those who are flying, be careful of the size of vanilla bottle. TSA confiscated one from us once. I hope they had a nice vanilla latte for their coffee break. 😉

10 minutes ago, MissP22 said:

Sure, why not? How can you id an article if it becomes lost?

I don't send anything worth the effort it would take to retrieve it. 

11 hours ago, leck57 said:

If I had actually paid $12-18 for them I'd not be happy. 

I'll be on Sky in July so I'll give them another try 

Could not agree more with this. Obviously the prices are overinflated to make the package look better but My first though was if anybody without a package would pay that. Unless they had a lot of OBC to burn. 

10 hours ago, suzyed said:

They are showing a White Medallion on my app for our upcoming cruise on the Coral....certainly not an inaugural cruise and I'm not a first time cruiser.  So what gives?
Strangely, my hubby's is correct?

You are certainly not alone in that. Just more Princess IT glitches. On the app it shows a white medallion and says I am a first time princess cruiser. However our medallions arrived yesterday for our 34th Princess cruise élite black. Not the first time this has happened either. I guess the have bigger problems to solve.

4 minutes ago, phabric said:

If 2 Elite staying in same cabin, can each send out a laundry bag?

yes. No need to separate items in the bags or names on the bags. My name is usually on both.

28 minutes ago, dickinson said:

@Thrak Thanks.  However, how do I find it myself on the website.  I could only find it by searching with the words gift cards.  

On the bottom of the home page of the Princess website. Under celebrations click on gift cards. Below that will be the option of balance inquiry. 

Thanks,  new to this suite thing