Day91

On our sailing two weeks ago, you would have had a much better chance of watching cricket from Charlotte Amalie than auto racing from Charlotte!

Aside from ship related channels, the stateroom TVs were pretty much limited to MSNBC, Fox, Nickelodeon, ESPN Caribbean (thus the cricket) and a few other curated channels.

When NFL football was specifically selected for the ship's viewing schedule, it was broadcast on the ESPN Caribbean feed.

Regardless, have a great time; we loved our cruise!

Wouldn't you be better off asking your provider than random strangers?

Yeah, sink into a morass of phone menus or who-knows-what links, and then query coverage city by city (if you can even get to that point without throwing something), hope that the information is correct,

or...

Briefly ask a forum composed of thousands of travelers with first-hand experience.

You did the right thing.

I'm very safety conscious for the greater part, would never own or run a motorcycle here in suburban Philadelphia, yet my times on a scooter in Bermuda have been among the best experiences in my life.

Having just watched my mother in law waste away of disease, and knowing that I too am going to leave somehow, well, you know where this is going....

What is the point in this thread. If you don't like the itinery don't book it

 

 

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Now that's the stupidest response to a thread I've read yet.

The CC app should have a moron filter.

The Jersey Boys equivalent on the Pearl, Alaska 2010

Burn the Floor

OP again, obviously no word back yet.

Just wanted to thanks the sleuths who have suggested reasons for the double cruise credit, but none of your fine ideas is applicable to my case.

Those who mentioned "spousal discrepancies", that has been our situation, as my wife has at times shown one fewer cruise than I. In fact, with this whole Medallion/Ruby tier, she has appeared to move in and out of this membership, as on our previous cruise her luggage tags read "gold" while mine were ruby or medallion or whatever usage was in effect at that point, yet our cards were both of the higher tier.

I realize this is all fun; oh to have such problems!

OP here again; thanks for your courteous and informative replies.

To keep things interesting, I've emailed Princess at the Captains Circle address given earlier in this thread. Rather than repeating the details, I gave them the link to this discussion and my membership number, and told them I'm the thread originator.

So, not that's is so important to anyone, but this whole thing can play out almost within the confines of one CC thread, and I'll come back with any updates.

Thanks again.

After our first (Crown) Princess sailing several years ago, I noticed that for some reason it was being counted as two cruises. It wasn't a suite or early booking, but no big deal, I thought, I'd like to sail Princess again but who knows. Then came the Ruby and CB, and now just back from the lovely Royal.

So now I see I've made Platinum. OK, I'm the guy who takes 50 cents back to the grocery checker the next week because he received too much change. But with this Platinum "membership", it just doesn't feel the same. I don't think the perks are that significant, and I can just see myself getting into a "no good deed goes unpunished" kind an administrative run around.

But I want to do the right thing, at least in a collective Cruise Critic opinion kind of a way. Any thoughts?

We had a similarly timed flight after the Ruby several years ago, and while it was on my mind occasionally while sailing, we had no problem.

We did self/ express walk off (or whatever it's called) and were among the first groups off the ship after 7 am, and had just a short cab wait, with no delay in customs related activity, so in our case, things ran like clockwork.

On our return from the Royal Princess yesterday morning, self walk off ran from 6 am till 6:20, with another 45 minutes for customs and cab, and we arrived at FFL by 7:20. While the early rising required was surprising, it would certainly be helpful for earlier flight times. (btw, ship "arrival" was also scheduled for 7am)

My wife and I just returned from this sailing and had one of our best cruises ever, on one of our new favorite ships. One of the more refreshing elements was the wide geographic representation of the passengers, which were among the friendliest and positive we've sailed with. We contrast this with our probably-never-again on the Norwegian Breakaway out of New York, an awesome ship with an experience brought down by the semi-negative attitudes and demeanor of the BrklynGuy, LngIslnd D-va, NJerseySure types (generally speaking only, of course ;"user names" checked for non-usage.)

In fairness to OP, s/he references Princess' smaller ships in a positive light, so perhaps has more a basis for analysis than post count would indicate.