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Having lunch at The Maren Hotel. 

6 minutes ago, kywildcatfanone said:

We were on this ship a couple of weeks ago and had a great time.  Will be back on again in 2 weeks.  Enjoy your cruise.

Thank you! 
 

and @azbirdmom, still can't believe I'm missing by one week. 

36 minutes ago, voljeep said:

following along and hope to join you someday (SUN P)?  Got cleared by the surgeon yesterday - all healed good, see you in 6 months - EXCELLENT.

so glad to hear you are finally healed!!  That was a tough road, I'm sure. 
 

And sailing together would be fun. 

26 minutes ago, Crown Cruiser said:

Carolyn, when you go to The Catch, ask for Irinya as your waitress.  She is phenomonal.

thank you for that suggestion, I will ask for her. 

12 minutes ago, 20165 said:

See you on board tomorrow.  We leave this afternoon from NC. Looking forward to it. Our first princess cruise in over 20 years.  Yes, before carnival acquired them so it will be interesting to see the changes.  Fingers crossed its somewhat the way we remember because we sailed princess pretty much exclusively pre kids and it was wonderful.    

Safe travels down to Florida. I'm sure you will still greatly enjoy Princess. 
 

seen you on board! 

46 minutes ago, Grego said:

Carolyn and I will be joining you tomorrow on the beautiful Enchanted Princess.  Our day will start with a fairly short hour and a half drive down from Port St Lucie to Einstein's Bagels for a quick sharing of a bagel and coffee and then driving across the street to GoPrincess where we got an invitation to be there again for the third time.

We are looking forward to being on the Enchanted again this year and this time celebrating my wife's birthday and our 58th Princess cruise.  Planning on touring a little more of PR and going back to our favorite animal preserve in Roatan.  We'll probably get off the ship in most of the ports to grab some street images and then enjoying the sea days aboard the ship.

 

see you tomorrow and safe travels down. 

Thank you @PacnGoNow!

Glad to hear you loved the Catch @Astro Flyer.  Sounds like your cruise was just incredible!

5 hours ago, LACruiser88 said:

Carolyn, have a fantastic cruise!  We will be envious of your time in the Sanctuary!!!  😊

Thank you!!  It will be fun to follow along on your sailing as I'm on one.  

Take Uber. Depending on the amount of luggage you have, an Uber X will run about $28.

The $50 fare sounds high, but if they did the trip during rush hour, then they sat in a lot of traffic.  

Starting my live from today as tomorrow we are heading over to Fort Lauderdale to stay at The Hotel Maren on Fort Lauderdale Beach again to start off our vacation.  Hey, why not start a day early?!

So looking forward to being back at sea and on a ship that I haven't sailed on before.  I'm sure I will love the Enchanted as much as I did the Sky, especially since Crooners is on this ship.  Hopefully I will be doing my live report Sunday from the Sanctuary, which many know is one of my favorite places on a ship. Also really looking forward to a few dinners at The Catch by Rudi.  

@LACruiser88 beautiful photos and looks like it's once again an amazing cruise.  Thanks for sharing it with us.  

1 hour ago, Cruise Raider said:

There was a time last year when they had 50% off on certain cruises only if they were booked while onboard.  The deal was so good, I booked about 11 of the  In total.  Even the plus package fare was half off.  
now, it’s hard to get them to show us those listing and there is nothing like we saw last year.  The cruise fare is all that is discounted now and most of them are nowhere near half.  There are some sailings that have some additional OBC if they can add you to a group. 
I saw where you may be able to view some sailings on the TV in your stateroom that are on special but I can’t really speak to that if it’s a special deal or not.  Since they are pretty much filling ships to capacity, I’m not sure we are going to see the deals that we found in the last couple of years.  

I couldn't get them to show us anything on the Sky.  Every time I asked, she kept putting me off.

On my December Sky sailing, people were frustrated on line the first day because many of the reservations were already taken.  It could be because there was a large group on board and they were taking over some areas of the restaurant but I went to change a reservation upon boarding and couldn't change the time or date of it at all and I went the first afternoon. 

We have had this happen a few times.  We simply drop our luggage off at the Pier we are embarking at (you're Pier 18)  drive to the pier we are disembarking from (you're Pier 25) and park the car.  Then we order an uber back to the embarkation pier. Works very well for us.

18 minutes ago, PacnGoNow said:

You are so right.  Why should we have it to ourselves when we visit Princess Cays?  Well, at least we did for many years.  Anyway, I’m happy it is helping their economy.  Thank you for pointing that out.

I'm glad we had it for as long as we did! 

14 minutes ago, PacnGoNow said:

Oh no!  What a shame.  Your pictures are beautiful.  It “was” an unspoiled treasure, up until now.

Thanks for posting.  SMH

 

At one point, the area where Princess Cay is was also an "unspoiled treasure" as well.  

Many of the residents are thrilled about this as it will create a lot of jobs and bring revenue to the island as the island's economy is depressed for lack of better term according to friends who live in the Bahamas and spend time there. 

Sounds like it was the perfect cruise!  What an awesome review and it makes me more excited to be leaving on Saturday on the Enchanted.  I have 2 reservations for The Catch and am excited to be back there and to try out O'malley's pub.  I'm a sucker for an Irish Pub and spend quite a bit of time at one here in town.

Beautiful picture of blue skies and the blue sea.  

36 minutes ago, Cruise Raider said:

All the way around .. never have we had a better time on a cruise!  

Coming from you, that's is a major endorsement!!  Glad to hear you had such a wonderful cruise.

@Cruise Raider

@Astro Flyer  so glad to hear that you had such a great view of the event. Hope the cruise was fantastic all the way around. 

27 minutes ago, George C said:

There is a Hilton across the street from Doubletree and Marriott, the one restaurant in Marriott has a fabulous view of the harbor and a large bar I believe the name is Casablanca.

I only mentioned that the Doubletree was a Hilton property as the OP was looking for Marriot properties only. 

You are right, that is Casablanca on the Bay. They have a great happy hour.  

1 hour ago, Greg4502 said:

Captains’ Circle loyalty desk is where it takes me every time.  Will that be our muster station? 

No. The muster stations are in dining areas, lounges/bars, the theater. On ships I have been on before, I know where the station is for my cabin. I pass by there on the way to the cabin and check in, if they are open. Then up to the room to unpack, while the video is playing. On the back of the door, will show you where your station will be.

I've had my muster station be in the art gallery which was difficult for anyone to needed to sit while waiting for it to start. That clearly was pre covid. 

Here is the latest update with some dates....

Did you have any excursions booked that perhaps got canceled?

13 minutes ago, redtop101 said:

This is what used to take place. This video from Golden Princess Oct 8/2009, David Cole Cruise Director. 

Thank you for finding that and posting it. I was just about crying I was laughing so much.