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Recheck your on board accounts. I have always received this kind of port charge refund as OBC and it quickly disappears when netted against on board charges. These are always small amounts, a few $$.

It will be the same as if you use a future cruise deposit for your deposit if you have one. It's a $100 deposit plus some OBC as mentioned in the previous posting. This is standard. There may also be some promos available that are also available from TAs. Rare that there are promos that are specific to being on board. You can also assign a booking to a TA and then get their benefits as well, if any.

No. They are mostly tucked underneath.

You should check out your itinerary. Believe that the Maui port stop will probably be at Kahuli, not Lahaina. Tours should mostly be the same. At least that was what I have been told for my January 2025 Hawaii cruise.

Disembarkment works as follows: Passengers are to leave their cabins no later than 8am. One DR is open for breakfast. I think the times are 6:30 until 8:30, but that may vary a little. The International Cafe will be open with breakfast selections. It is crowded as many people gather in the Piazza area while waiting to disembark. The buffet is also open from 6am until 9am. Early walk off begins somewhere around 6:30am and proceeds in groups until around 7:30am. After that regular disembarkment begins in groups according to your luggage tag received in your cabin. The tags are colored and numbered such as blue 2, brown 1 and so on. When your number is called you proceed to the gangplank and exit into the terminal to retrieve your luggage and pass through immigration. Immigration is facial recognition. All passengers have to be off the ship by the last call which is around 9:30am. Absolutely no one is permitted to remain on board. After the final passengers disembark the intransit, b2b, passengers exit the ship with a staff member, are processed through immigration and then re-board. General boarding then follows starting around 10:30 to 11am. Certain airlines offer EZ Check. With this process your bags are collected loaded unto airline transportation and you pick them up when you arrive at your final destination. I believe the fee is $25/pp plus whatever the airline baggage fee is. You will receive a form in your cabin and you can also ask at passenger services.

Yes in most cases. The opening is around two feet wide and allows passage between the balconies. Opening the divider does not provide a single large balcony. The Grand is a older ship. Over time the aluminum balcony hinges and latching structure ages making some balcony connecting doors difficult to operate and latch.

There is an 18% service charge added to the quoted cost of specialty restaurants. The $39 Crown Grill will actually cost you $46.02. If you have included specialty dining such as with the premier package then I assume the entire cost is covered by the package and no further tipping is required.

Post 3 basically describes the process at Port Everglades. People start lining up outside the terminal building at 9:00 or so. Some are there even earlier. as they come directly from their flights. Somewhere around 9:30 to 10am the doors open and you have to go through security. This is a fairly slow process. I did not see any priority lines to go through security. Once through security the group splits into green lane for those that already have their medallion and blue lane for those that have to pick up the medallion at the port. I had to pick my medallion up. It took about 5 minutes. Passengers then go to the waiting area until actual boarding begins. The wait was not long. Boarding begins somewhere around 10:30 to 11am and goes quickly. Cabins were not ready until somewhere between 12:30 and 1pm. Passengers were requested to remain in the public areas until then. Luggage. Drop off is outside and handled by the port employees. All luggage is stacked together in large bins to be loaded onto the ship. Your luggage tag will have your cabin number and a code which indicates the section of the ship. On board crew delivers luggage to the cabins. From my experience those that drop off their luggage early don't automatically get it delivered early. At least that is my experience with almost 50 Princess cruises. Sometimes it's there early sometimes not.

No. No matter if you pre-purchase or wait to purchase on boarding day you get the entire package either way, beverage, wifi, grats, casual meals, free sending of the medallion, the ocean now access, the no charge telephone ordering from room service and some other stuff. Of course if you wait you will have a charge to have the medallion shipped to your house or you can elect to pick it up at the pier.

It makes no sense to purchase a stand alone beverage package. The stand alone plus beverage package is $65/pp/day and the premier stand alone package is $85/pp/day. Stand alone packages do not cover wifi, daily housekeeping & food service gratuities as well as the other items. The cost for stand alone beverage packages are higher than the $60 and $80 costs for the full plus and premier packages.

To add to my post 5. Single device means one device per person at a time. If a person has both a phone and a lap top, for example, that person can only be on one of those at a time. You can log off of one of them an onto the other.

When you board look for any crew member with a yellow hat or just any crew member. Provide them with your cabin number and they will be able to tell you where your muster station is located. All the muster stations on the Grand Class ships are on deck 7. On Royal Class ships I think some are also on deck 6. They are very easy to find. No real need to know in advance. Your muster station will be somewhere on these deck below your cabin section.

1) $60/pp/day is the full cost and covers unlimited alcoholic beverages and up to 15 alcoholic beverages/pp/day menu priced up to $15. No service charge is added per drink. $15 covers around 80 to 90 % of all drinks. If you order a drink in excess of $15 you will be charged the difference + 15%. Example a $20 drink will cost you $5 + .90cents = $5.90. There are quite a few wines that are higher than $15. 2) Not a special price. The plus package can be purchased pre-cruise as part of the fare or you can wait until you board and purchase on boarding day where the charge will go to your on board account. When purchased on board you pay for all days of the cruise. 3) When the plus package is purchased pre-cruise it becomes part of the fare. It's the Plus Fare. If you cancel the entire fare which includes the plus package becomes subject to the cancellation terms in the passage contract as well as any travel insurance you have purchased. If you wait until you board then, of course, if you can not make the cruise you never actually pay for the plus package. 4) Yes, $60/pp/day. The rep is correct. If you have lots of OBC the cost of the package will be netted against the OBC amount. You also will not be charged any insurance premium for the package cost.

1) For all passengers with the plus fare all housekeeping gratuities, $16 to $18/pp/day depending on cabin category, are included. You will not be charged. All beverage service charges,18%, are also included for beverages menu priced up to $15. No service charges are added per drinks covered under the fare. 2) $15 is the menu price and covers probably 80 to 90% of all the straight spirits as well as mixed drinks. The drinks you mentioned are covered. If you order a drink in excess of $15 you will be charged the difference + 18%. If you order a double Jim Beam that will be charged to your daily 15 drink limit as 2 drinks. There are a number of wines that exceed the $15 limit. Non alcoholic beverages, such as specialty coffees, sodas and such are unlimited and do not count against the daily limit. Only alcoholic beverages count toward the limit. 3) Every passenger with the plus fare will have unlimited wifi internet for a single device.

You really should speak with Princess regarding the bed and the medical condition. From what I have seen in order to place another bed into a cabin one of the beds that are there would have to be removed.

Depends on where you live. I would prefer to fly.out, sail home.

It's unclear what you are looking to visit. I have seen coffee plantations in Costa Rica, watched demos on how the beans are picked, watched the actual process of the separation, roasting processes.

Once you board you visit your muster station and scan your medallion to show you were there. This can be done while you are waiting for your cabin to be ready. If you don't know where your muster station is located ask any crew member. Crew members with yellow caps are stationed at the muster stations and around the ship. You must watch the complete muster video either on your cabin tv or on your smart device. Your tv will be locked until that step is completed. There is no more going to the muster station with life jackets. The two steps can be done in any order. It is easier to just visit the muster station first while you are already on deck 7 where the stations are located.

I can't confirm specifically for the Emerald, but on the the sister ship, Ruby, the smoking areas were just as you mentioned, except that the deck 16 area, I believe, was on the port side. Cigarette smoking was also permitted at a good number of port side slots while playing. Believe cigar and pipe smoking is now only at the deck 16 area. I never saw it in the small starboard promenade aft area.

The show is set, with a fixed arrangements, dance as well as copyright. Very doubtful they would spend the big bucks for additional rights, dance and arrangements for one cruise.

Never have seen Jack Daniels. On my many cruises I've seen Sky Vodka, Gordon's Gin, Dewar's Scotch, Courvoisier Brandy. Beer is normally Dos Equis. Non alcoholic includes 2 plain waters, 2 Perrier, 2 Diet Coke, 2 Regular Coke, 2 tonics.

That is disappointing. I met the Future Cruise/Captain's Circle person on my recent cruise. It was for Captain's Circle events. She was very pleasant. While I did not have any Captain's Circle issues I would think she would have been happy to assist, providing the Princess system is showing the information as the passenger indicates. If the poster can't make the correction before boarding then the only choice remaining is to try once on board.

If all else fails you can take care of it once on board. If her folio requires adjusting once on board passenger services should be able to take care of that.

Each person, adult or child has their own on board folio. When all 3 persons in the cabin are linked to the same payment, credit card, account then there also will be a summary amount. Charges incurred by the 3rd person will be added as they occur and then netted against the other two accounts. Dining. Just make dining reservations for 3. If the 3rd person does not show, mention to the DR greeter when you show for dinner. No issues.

I travelled solo. Answer, probably, but there is no answer that always applies. When you get to the DR indicate that you have a reservation and that you wish to dine as a single. You may be offered a share table, but you can decline. If you show each evening at the same time you most likely will be seated at the same table.