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Thank you for posting this, but I don’t see your experience with EZ air a “rip off” but rather a cautionary tale. I personally wasn’t aware of the cancellation terms, but as it is a consolidator it makes perfect sense. That’s why the payment terms are also much different than booking direct, and cancellation at 45 days on refundable fares. In most cases this is much better than booking through the airline, but your post shows the downside of this. We used EZ air for the first time recently when we were unsure whether to fly home from Anchorage after a transpacific, or to add on the next cruise to Vancouver where we live. I booked flights through EZ air so we’d have a way home regardless, and when the second leg of our cruise went on sale I cancelled the flights before the 45 days and booked the cruise. There are pros and cons to EZ air, and your post definitely shows the downside.

Good Morning to all the Dailyites! Thank you for all the Victoria Day wishes from our American friends. We were actually in today’s port of Miyako 3 weeks ago today. This was our first trip to Japan and loved it and the Japanese people. On arrival at the port we had many locals out to great us, including schoolchildren and dancers. When we left many townspeople lined the port to wave us off. (Very poor picture taken from the dining room shown). This happened at multiple ports in Japan and warmed our hearts each time. This is a small town which suffered flooding and great losses in the tsunami of 2011. In the years since they have built amazing infrastructure to protect against this happening again. We walked about 10 kilometres passing a lot of the new building to get to Jodogahama Beach. It was a beautiful sunny day. Sorry I don’t have any pictures of the town area.

Last week it was $15 per day (with elite discount, so $29.99 without) 24 hour period if buying one day at a time. If buying until end of voyage it came out to $12.50 per day for elite.

Thank you for doing this. I’m sure it will be helpful to many.

On Royal Princess last week, we replaced with a bottle of wine, but kept the sparkling water and regular waters. Our room steward did this for us. Like so many things it seems this is not consistent from ship to ship.

Glad you had a good trip. Thank you for your review.

Yes, sadly I only have NCL now too. Hopefully this hits the Canadian Amex cards soon.

We have been on the Royal Princess for the last 3 weeks and currently breakfast and lunch is served in Allegro, not Concerto. The Reserve class area is in Concerto at dinner time.

We booked a cruise last year and received extra OBC for booking onboard. The cruise has gone down substantially and I was going to rebook/price adjust. What is the standard OBC received with purchasing the FCDs if they’re not used right away?I am assuming we will lose the bonus OBC we received but want to weigh the numbers to see if it’s worth it. Is there a PDF of the form anywhere as with Princess?

Well said Ruth C, as always.

We haven’t been on the Enchanted, but we do like the Majestic for the Noodle bar, and the open to all forward Hollywood Club. We usually book the “obstructed” balconies or deluxe balconies on Emerald deck in the bump out. We are currently on the Royal Princess (sister) in one of these and our balcony is pretty big. You’ll see the differences on the deck plans. These are under the “inside” cabin category when looking in the website. And also, there is no real “obstruction” on the bump out, except you can’t see down to the water completely but down to the promenade deck.

Nice trip report so far. I’ll definitely be following along. Enjoy your well deserved break. Transatlantics are the best!

This thread should be a sticky. No pun intended.

As far as I know timing is everything when going east of Vancouver Island and especially through Seymour Narrows. That’s likely why they took the route west of Vancouver Island.

Welcome to Cruisecritic! We have taken a lot of these coastal cruises back when we were still working and really enjoyed them. As you say they are a good opportunity to try out “cruising” and see if it’s for you. They are different vibe than a 7 day loop or a longer itinerary, but certainly are not “less than”. We’ve had great guest lecturers and generally 1 production show on ours. Get to the production show 30 minutes early if you want to see it. They are popular. Buffet food, Main dining room etc will be as you would have on a longer cruise. Enjoy your first cruise!

Thank you! Changed my iPad back to Vancouver time and all is well. I’ll just leave my phone with the ship time. Interesting that the ship “IT” people don’t know this. It makes complete sense as we are having time changes every day for 6 days!

Sorry if this has already been addressed lately. Did a search and nothing recent came up. We are currently on Royal Princess and I can’t log in to Princess. I’m not getting the “technical difficulties” page, but just getting auto logged out as soon as I log in. Asked at the IT place downstairs and he said it’s been an issue for the last few days. I think it’s strange that there’s been no mention on CC if it is truly an issue. A few days while using an eSIM in port, I had no trouble, but now on ship wifi I can’t log in. The “deals” page also comes up blank, likely as I’m not logged in so it has no location for me. Is anyone else having this issue, or is it an onboard issue?

There is definitely interest from me. I think a lot of us who are usually interested in these threads may be on our own repositioning cruises (‘tis the season!) and not reading the boards regularly. I know I only have internet in port via eSIM right now so am not reading daily like I usually do. Glad that you were able to get into Ponta Delgada. We stopped there in fall of 2022 and loved it. We had the best one euro cappuccinos from a kiosk in a little park at the top of the hill.

I just saw your thread and thought to myself “April 13? How did I miss following @*Miss G*’s trip!” I’m so glad you were able to come back and catch us all up. We are cruising now, and I respect all of you who take the time to do these threads. Really enjoying it so far!

This has happened to me before when logged in. I logged out and suddenly the pricing appeared for the cruise. Just an occasional glitch I think.

Congrats! Glad it worked out so well for you! Is this a 7 day inside passage? Sorry, I can’t remember which itinerary you had.

Well I appreciate you “taking one for the (local) team”, lol. Its is interesting to hear your experience with it.

You’re not missing anything. You’re absolutely right. I can see prices in CAD cheaper than standby currently.

Thank you! You’ve put my mind at ease. 😊

We board tomorrow. Just thought I’d double check our dinner reservations on the app. I had 22 days booked at the same time each day. App now shows NO reservations! Should be fun. They were there a month ago. I did screenshot all of our reservations in the old app at least if there’s an issue.