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At least on the newer ships, it is not true that the fire doors will always be located at the service wall between two cabins. Below are photos taken on the Royal of fire doors both at the service wall and at the room entry recess shared by two rooms. On the newer ships, look for rooms that have a notch, as shown on the attached deck plan. For that room, that will be the entrance door location and the beds will be on the opposite wall. The rooms will always alternate, with beds back to back, so you can determine the layout of other rooms from tis.

In the current Princess Health Advisory I no longer see the provision about severe, chronic conditions. It lists only two conditions for denial of boarding 1) contact with someone who has or is suspected of having Covid-19 and  2) evidence on boarding of flue-like symptoms or temperature. 

19 hours ago, satxdiver said:

I would like to see the HC/WFA where all food is served by the staff like on HAL ships and in cafeterias here in the US. 

According to the CDC report the virus on the Diamond was mainly spread by food workers.

Additional hand sanitize stations around the ship but most will walk by them like they do now in the HC so I am not sure how effective that would be.  Carry your own.  When I have to use the elevator I use my knuckle to push the buttons.  My pet peeve is those who are able bodied that use the elevator to go to the deck above/below instead of the stairs.  

 

I did a ship tour on the CB and they had 3 fully equipped ER rooms available and medical staff on duty 24.7 so not sure how much more they can do.  

 

Cruise cards are rapidly becoming obsolete as the ships transition to OM.  Stand in front of your cabin door and it unlocks.  Place your OM on a reader and the charge is recorded with no crew member touching your device.  Exit and reenter the ship by placing your OM on the reader with no one touching it. You place your OM on a reader that has had hundreds of other OMs placed on it, all of them having been handled by other passengers. It seems to me that there is a light in the reader but I have no evidence that it is UV and it only covers the outer edges anyway.

 

I do agree that longer time between cruises are needed to effectively clean the ship but maybe not 24 hours.  I could see debark pax in early morning and allow new pax aboard at 5 PM or so giving crew 7 or 8 hours to clean the ship.  

 

 

Uh-oh, I have always carried the Princess sugar packets to maintain glucose levels, particularly on excursions. I had better bring something else.

I don't know if all Princess bathroom doors are the same but the one I measured on the Emerald had a 23" wide door panel which was probably a 22" clear opening.

I also have notes from the Royal and it shows a 22" opening

2 hours ago, Cruise Raider said:

 

We had a similar experience.  We were in Hawaii and I originally booked a Princess excursion on the Big Island but it was canceled that morning.  So, I booked an independent excursion where I injured my knee while we were out hiking!  Ouch!!

I visited the medical center and they asked if it was a Princess excursion and it explained it was not.  I didn't even realize they would have covered it had it been a Princess excursion.  I had another couple excursions booked for the next couple of islands via the Princess excursions desk, though.  Since I was past my cancellation date, at least on one of them, I thought it was lost money ... but lo and behold, they provided us both refunds only those upcoming tours.  That was a very nice surprise. 

Are you saying they wouldn't cover a medical situation if it happened on a non-Princess excursion? I wouldn't expect to recover excursion cost if non-Princess.

I don't mind the change to liquid in principle, but I hope it is better than that body wash stuff they put in the showers. For anyone who plans to bring their own bar soap, I might mention that I was stopped by the TSA last February for having a bar of shaving soap in my carry-on. After consulting with others she finally let me go. Put it in checked baggage.

I seems to me that Princess might well have more left over soap to dispose of if pax bring their own full-size bars and abandon it at cruise end.

We have walked from Berth 21 to 17th Street and back just to pass time, and there is sidewalk the entire way.  You have to cross to the opposite side at a couple of places and there are some large gaps at the entrance roads to the piers. We didn't have luggage as we were just walking out between B2B, but we did see a few people wheeling luggage.

I have measured it, at least for an OV on the Emerald. My records show Entry door panel 25" ( 24" clear opening) and Bathroom door panel 23" ( 22" clear opening).

52 minutes ago, pablo222 said:

 

On carribbean, whether the uppers are on the wall, or in the ceiling depends on the deck.

 

I'm sure the steward will make the bed up any way you wish.

 

I have read of people having one bed removed to accomodate a chair needed for a medical condition.

 

The upper berths on the wall look innocent enough, but they are always watching for an opportrunity to bop you on the head...

 

I believe it depends on room type. Inside and OV are on the wall and Balcony in the ceiling.

There was a thread about Princess doing this as standard in some OV rooms a year ago. Most didn't like it. I saw some rooms on the Crown that were arranged this way and it wouldn't be for me, but for a single it might be good. Princess seems to have ended this change for OV rooms, but I would think that it could be done on request. I doubt if the stewards like it.

Deadweight is a measure of the weight a ship can carry not the weight of the ship itself. This is the opposite of terminology for assessing a building where dead load is the weight of the construction and live load the weight carrying capacity. I don't know why the Breakaway has a smaller Deadweight when it is a larger ship carrying more passengers and presumably more supplies.

On Royal class ships I keep the room service card in it.

1 hour ago, Daniel A said:

Were you driving or in a shuttle?  When we have gone in by car, they scrutinized us more than the times we went in by hotel shuttle.

Shuttle, taxi and walk-in from 17th Street.

We have never had to show anything more than a passport to enter Port Everglades.

The bed, as measured on the Emerald consists of two 6'-5" long by 2'-10' wide beds. Together that is 6'-5" x 5'-8".

I wish Princess would reverse the Mutts layout so that the sound would travel with the air movement instead of against it, as it is now. Then they could turn down the loudness. It would probably improve their fuel usage too as they wouldn't have to push that big bluff screen through the air and could streamline the back. Better still would be to install a distributed speaker system instead of those P.A. speakers mounted on the screen.

It moves. It's the window washing platform for the decks above. On newer ships it doesn't project down so much. It moves on a built-in rail. That is it's parked position. It wouldn't bother me that much, but maybe Princess should list that room as obstructed.

I am happy with the current Princess bathroom on both Grand and Royal class. I have never experienced the clinging curtain problem. 

On 8/30/2019 at 9:21 PM, land lover said:

a positive from me for the new system.....no more card to carry around or lose.

Easy to ask your for your count. Triple espresso is only one punch used to be 2.

 

Unfortunate when we have had the drink package, that the mini bar can no longer be switched for 'cards", but a bottle of wine or giving away the mini bar works.  DH is the coffee drinker not me...but we still have  used up 2 cards on a 7 day cruise...because of drinking specialty coffee minus the added coffee or tea...and treating someone in line to a drink.

Is this something new? The mini bar could be switched for coffee credits in February.

Here is a photo from L101. I don't recall going out on that deck other than for some sight seeing when in port. The view from inside the room wasn't very good and there are other obstructed OVs on Deck 8 that I prefer. We kept the curtains closed most of the time. In L101 the room layout is more like the regular OV with the closet changing area, and the bed is under the window. L103 is different.

Actually this is the access to the deck over the Bridge. That deck is elevated half a level above Lido deck. We have stayed in L101 on the CB and were not disturbed by any noise from above, but that may vary if the ship allows use of the gym at night.

The Princess website says that for canceled flights with EZair restricted fare  "An airline credit memo will be recorded minus applicable fees."

Quads are particularly bad on Royal class ships. It worked out,  prices had come down and we were able to get an Obs. Balcony for less than the original cost of the Guarantee Inside and then we were upgraded to a Premium Obs Balcony. 

Two years ago we booked an Inside guarantee for two people on the Royal and were assigned a Quad. I had to lose the deposit to get out of it. I will not do guarantees now.