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Just checked. For my Diamond Princess cruise in less than 2 weeks, when I clicked on "view", I still got a blank screen (been showing blank screen for 1+ month). For my cruise starting in 26 days, of the 5 port, 2 ports blank screens, 2 ports in Japanese, and only the Otaru port is working (not blank screen and in English).

10 day cruise only $100.

It is the Daiwa Roynet Hotel - Koen. Very nice 3-star hotel, convenient to metro station, Chinatown, and cruise pier. https://www.daiwaroynet.jp/yokohama-koen/

Thank you Ken. We will be leaving for our 2 Diamond Princess cruises in about 2 weeks. Again, I want to thank you for your thread on your Diamond Princess cruises and your answers to my questions on that thread. Truly enjoyed your thread and all the details/Patters really helped my planning. Just curious, on top of the sink, did you get bar soaps or liquid soap? I think there are still a few Princess ships that give bar soaps. I prefer liquid soap.

That is nice to know. Thank you.

I am asking this question for a friend. For her cruise coming up in a month, she currently has a mid-ship balcony on Diamond Princess. She put in 2 bids; one for mini suite, and one for Club class mini suite. If she gets lucky and Princess notifies her of accepting her mini suite bid, does she then need to go to her booking to cancel the Club class mini suite bid? She said she really prefers the regular mini suite over the Club class, because she wants to eat with her friends (in regular mini suites). The reason she placed 2 bids is to increase her chance of getting a mini suite. So if her bid for the mini suite is accepted, she doesn't want to take a chance later on Princess might accept her Club class bid.

No. Please see my post #13.

I agree. Many years ago we tried it and didn't like it. We are Elites and those canapés are free on formal nights. Supposedly it should be delivered only if I requested. I never requested it, but they still delivered it every time. My friend asked that question, so I posted it for her.

She is thinking of doing the minimum bid, $400pp for the first 2 persons. 9 days cruise. Her original bid from balcony to mini suite was $300pp (same as all of us). So total, she will be paying $200 more than her original bid that was declined because of her credit card. She said she doesn't mind to pay additional $200 (total $800) for a mini suite and to be on the same deck with us.

Here is my friend's question on the Canapes. The descriptions of the Club Class Mini Suite says " Evening Canapés, Nibble on masterfully-crafted canapés delivered directly to your stateroom. Upon request". Is that consider room service and need to pay $5 each time I request evening canapes? Thank you.

Good memory. ☺️ Yes, there will be 9 of us in 4 cabins on Diamond Princess (sailing soon). All four cabins we did a bid upgrade from mid-ship balcony to mini-suites. Bids for 3 cabins were accepted and 1 cabin declined (my friend recently lose her credit card she used for the bid, and got a new replacement card. She totally forgot to change the credit card info on her bid until she received an email from Princess notifying her card was declined). And she is the one who really wants the mini suite because she has 3 persons for her cabin. She replied to Princess "decline" email with her new credit card info., but now it says "mini suite" unavailable. I think on the day that all of us got notifications that our bids were accepted, Princess already given out all the mini suites. She just checked, and noticed her booking can still submit for "club class mini suite". She is thinking of bidding for that. Mainly she wants a mini suite for the 3 of them, and also wants to be on the same deck with all of us. Most likely she will not take advantage of the dining in the reserved room, because she wants to eat with all of us. She asked me the questions on the wine and the canapes, so I posted the questions for her.

The descriptions of the Club Class Mini Suite says " Evening Canapés, Nibble on masterfully-crafted canapés delivered directly to your stateroom. Upon request". Is that consider room service and need to pay $5 each time I request evening canapes? Thank you.

Thank you! That is nice. I didn't think they will give half opened bottle; but then I wondered why the description can't just state "a bottle" of each, and list the volume of just 50% of "regular" size? Would you happen to know what kind of white/red wine do they give?

I am thinking of doing a bid upgrade for the Club class mini suite on Diamond Princess. From the descriptions, it says "1/2 bottle of red wine and 1/2 bottle of white wine" will be included. I apologize if this is a dumb question. just curious, for those of you who booked "club class mini suite" in the past, 1/2 bottle of white and 1/2 bottle of red wine were already in your cabin on embarkation day? Since it is only 1/2 bottle, the bottle must be already opened and 1/2 bottle of the wine already taken away? Thank you.

Thanks for the suggestion. I do use a Princess CVP. When I made the bookings, I did ask the CVP to mark both bookings as "Do not upgrade", but I don't know if that option also applies to cabins assigned by "bid" upgrade. Maybe I should give my CVP a call tomorrow.

My upcoming cruises are about a month away (Diamond Princess). Few days ago, for both cruises, not b2b, I placed a minimum bid from mid-ship balcony (BA) to mini suite. Today I received an email saying my bid for both cruises were accepted. I was given mid-aft mini-suite (MB). I like the location of the mini-suite cabin on both cruises. From now until check-in time for the cruise, can Princess change my upgraded assigned cabins' location? For example, to a lower mini-suite category (MD or ME)? Or same category, but to another cabin number? Do I need to call Princess now to request to mark my bookings to "Do Not Upgrade"? Thank you.

Thank you. That is too bad.

Is it okay to take b2b cruise with 1st 7-day cruise from Seattle to Vancouver, and 2nd 7-day cruise from Vancouver to Los Angeles? Thank you.

Thank you.

You do not need to have a Capital One credit card, any credit card is fine. You just need to register for Capital Shopping. They offer a lot of reward savings of hotels. Recently booked our Yokohama hotel and got 25% rewards of the hotel price. Very good deals.

C1 "pending" rewards usually show up a few days after your purchase. I will check mine in a few days.

I just bought my 5 cards. I told my sister about it, and she wants to buy 5 cards also. I told her she needs to register with AARP with her email address, which she said is fine. She doesn't want to use her credit card. For her purchase, can she use my credit card that I just used for my purchase? She will use her own email address (different from mine). Thank you.

I think it is for the entire transaction regardless you buy one or 20 cards.

Thank you.

Never mind my question above. Just bought my gift cards, and it did show a $5 reward.