cruisebabe63

On 1/23/2024 at 10:38 PM, Carnevale said:

Our cruise starts Feb 5 and our medallions arrived today (Jan 23).  We are in Canada so the USPS tracking never worked for us.

Just an FYI for Canadians if you take the USPS tracking number and go to Canada Post's web site and enter that same number it should provide any tracking info. It did for us.

Thought I'd note for Canadians wanting to track the medallion shipment, We are sailing on Feb 25th and just received the email from Princess that the Medallions were shipped on Feb 1st. Of course the USPS tracking number was included and when you click on it you get...

However if you take that same tracking number and go to Canada Posts web site and enter it in, a result is returned. As least for me!

Good-luck

 

ss Prince George (1948-present) Delivered as Prince George for the Canadian National Railways. Grand Trunk Pacific Railway beginning in 1910 operated a steamship service in British Columbia from the end of its railway at Prince Rupert. Canadian National Railways took over Grand Trunk Pacific Railway in 1920 including its steamship operation which had been cut back to Vancouver. Prince George II joined the line in 1948 to replace the first destroyed by fire in 1945. She sailed the Inside Passage from Vancouver to Alaska and operated until the end of season in 1974 after which a fire damaged the ship causing it to be sold one year short of its planned retirement.

In 1981, a new company, Canadian Cruise Line, spend $4 million to refit the 285-passenger ship and bring her up to luxury standards and back to cruising. Her itinerary would include Ketchikan, the Wrangell Narrows, Tracy Arm, Juneau, Glacier Bay, Prince Rupert and Knight Inlet. Departures were scheduled for every Monday from Vancouver, BC.

 

Wondering if anyone has any other photo's of this ship, the SS Prince George operated by the Canadian Cruise Line circa 1981. My first cruise was as a 12 year old with my parents on board this ship. It was in Sept 1981 and I remember the fact that the ship was one day late arriving back to Vancouver due to Mechanical trouble. We ended up losing Skagway as a Port of Call. This was a fairly small ship but the advantage was that it could make it through the inside passage (Wrangell narrows) where larger ships could not. Had a great time me and my brother were the only kids on on board and we got to sit at the Captains Table in the MDR every day. Even remember the singer who played in the lounge that week, a local musician named Peter Chipman. Things were a lot different compared to cruising now a days.

Getting Married during the May 2, 2010 sailing of the Legend. My question is that we will be holding the ceremony on Grand Cayman, are Carnival's posted arrival/departure times ships time or local time? Much appreciated.