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If they are using virtually a full DR at 7:15pm (IDK how many can be seated in the DR), then they have to use the 2-tops, the 4-tops, the 6-tops, 8-tops, etc. So, just let them know you need a two top not in the middle. It does sound like a good set of hearing aids would help, but IDK your hearing issue or whether it is too late for that. Good ;luck. You can certainly dine elsewhere and at a different time than the group and no doubt many members will end up doing so after the first night or so.

All bottled water I have seen on Princess is sold at retail somewhere.

The physical Medallion is what allows cabin entry. The App is totally another thing.

I paid off our X cruise not our CCL cruise using my CC and

It's not your fault for trying, but never use the Link My Booking option. It doesn't do anything. Your booking shows up in the App within a day or so after making it and putting down a deposit. You should see it when logging in with email id and pswd ... same as you use on Princess.com website. If that is not working, the App has an alternate sign-in process where you use Name, Birthdate, Confirmation Code. If that doesn't work and the booking is not brand new, then there could be a data corruption issue between the main reservation system (POLAR) and the Princess App (formerly Medallion Class App). There is a Web version of the Princess App. Login to Princess.com and access the Cruise Personalizer. On the main page, the App is advertised along with links to the Play Store. In the small print is a link to the URL for the App web version. Login again and you should get access to your booking. If not, call in to Princess and, using the phone tree options, choose help getting Ocean Ready.

Hi. Looks like many questions you had not got answered yet. The physical Medallion is your id to board and disbark the ship. It unlocks your cabin door. It identifies you to bar staff or sales personnel in shops, etc, in order to charge purchases to your cabin account. The Medallions can be shipped to you if you have a US address. It costs $10, unless you are booked with the Plus or Premier cruise fare packages. Otherwise, you collect at the pier terminal when checking in - just like the old cruise cards. There is also a software app.. the Princess App... which has pre-cruise check-in process and other options, plus a slew of functionality while on board the ship. Up to you whether to use the App, but it makes whole experience better for most folks, at least while on the cruise. Yes, there is an excursion desk but be forewarned that several excursions may be sold out if you wait until boarding and prices often go up. You can shop Princess excursions using the Cruise Personalizer. Formal nights are still held and you can read about them on Princess.com. Sometimes one of those nights has a Dress To Impress moniker and lately they have been doing white & gold theme. But that one doesn't seem to be very popular. You can dress anything from Smart Casual to black tie on formal night and fine you are. You will find that in Caribbean sector the dress is more to the casual end of spectrum these days than to the unchanged Princess recommendations (read on Princess.com in the FAQs). You say you are part of a group that has dining arrangements. Are you sure they included you? Did someone in the group book dinner res using DineMyWay (DMW) for the entire group? They would have needed your booking confirmation code for that. I could answer you better if you can say more about the arrangement. Something you should know. Let's say someone booked you all for a table in the same DR each night at 6pm. This is no guarantee you are at the same table with the same waiters each night. If that is what your group is looking for, it needs to be requested of DR Mgmt after boarding. Until you are confirmed on board into the same table each night, you will have to check in with hosts at the door to see where they seat you. I will address your App issue in another post.

Yes. You can turn it off and back on.

Sounds like the TD experience to me. That time you saw the 2-top unused, I wonder if the guests neglected to inform they had other plans. But to be empty for your entire service doesn't make sense to me.

I wish we could switch account profiles as it drives me nuts that I can only see pricing in CAD and not the true USD pricing. I always book in USD, so I am either converting and rounding or use 3rd party booking engine to get prices in USD. Carnival cruises lets you pick currency. I think HAL used to, but is also defaulting to country. When I am signed in in USA, I still presented CAD pricing, but not if just anonymous. A VPN can solve things. But IDK why OP is never seeing CAD.

I am thinking this post has tipped the scales towards a prediction of a long thread.

The new total of $1,209 is consistent with paying 7 x $80 for Premier Fare package, not Plus. Benefits match, so it is hard to see where the mixup is.

But you cannot normally book on board for a future voyage. You can ask, but might have to wait until Day 1 of the voyage you actually want the res for. Now they may take a note and update system once the new voyage begins, but I am not sure they can actually book you into the system before then. Could be different now with the new system. I equate it to attempting to book the Sanctuary for two voyages in advance when they only take names a day or before the end of current voyage for the next one. If I were you, I would follow up with the SD venue if they do take your name just so it isn't overlooked a couple of weeks later. Finally, they will want to know names and cabin numbers for everyone involved in the dinner. Obviously, your friends' cabin is going to be occupied by someone else ahead of their week. IDK if that might complicate the SD venue making a res. Oh, one more thing. As mentioned above, the cover charge can be posted to one cabin or each cabin - just let them know when you check in to get your table on that night.

Not so much in my mind as they still get two OBC's. Someone made a post the other day and were claiming/thinking PCL was not valuing Military and Veterans as much as Shareholders. Well the clarification on previous page disputes that one. (And yes, I realize they would have had 3 before this change). Two people is the typical cabin booking: Both have Military - they both get OBC. One Military and one Shareholder - they both get OBC. Two Shareholders - only one gets OBC.

It most certainly doesn't if you are booked in a Suite or Reserve Mini or are Captain's Circle Elite or Platinum. All have priority check-in service.

Yes, it could have been some crank marketing where the spoofed the PCL HQ number.

Well yes, right there. When we book in North America or UK, we are going by booking standards and currency used in those markets. The ship currency is in AUD. But it is only when book in Australia or NZ that the cruise fare is done with Australian booking standards. An American and an Aussie on the same cruise out of Sydney have both paid CI - just in different ways. But both will transact on-board spending in AUD and settle cabin account in AUD. Another unfortunate thing is that the US OBC we might have from a promo us converted dollar-for-dollar to AUD into on-board folio with no consideration of currency exchange.

Welcome to the party. The amounts have been the same for years now. The only difference is the MOBC was essentially a cash gift as it was refundable OBC and now it won't be. I do understand that it makes sense to be non-refundable like all other granted OBC (i.e. what the guest did not purchase for themselves). Or, were you referring to the fact that a couple could double up on MOBC, whereas we could not double up on SOBC.

True, but in PCL past habits, the announcement will be vague enough to still raise questions on some fine points. But let's see what they say.

Or they used the internal memo and decide to "over report" the situation. My guess is that PCL will officially notify customers on June 29 when it is too late for the uninformed and the tardy to react and get double credits posted.

PCL does bake it into the fare. Some of us wish they would just do it everywhere, but then all the cruise lines need to move to that model together, or pricing comparisons go wonky.

Let's set credit card foreign currency upcharges aside. Let's say the currency rate for USD to FOREX = 1.20 looking online. When purchasing something, the bank is using a higher rate - like 1.21 for example. When refunding, they are using a lower rate - like 1.19 for example. There is always a mark-up when purchasing foreign currency and a discount when selling it back. Who we deal with can help reduce that profit margin and also eliminate other surcharges.

Sorry, but not exactly as the Plus costs almost $77. Crew Incentive is $16 for most cabins. PASS 1 $77 + $16 = $93 PASS 2 $16 = $16 TOTAL = $109 PLUS for PASS 1 & 2 = $120 So, I do disagree with your proposition. Are you seriously suggesting $11 is enough to make the choice you suggest? There really is no circumstance the standalone beverage package is a good idea. It is highly unlikely such a scenario exists that it is not worth consideration IMO. If one is also a savvy cruiser, they will be booking with a TA that discounts the cruise fare in some manner and that $120 ought to cost under $109.

$20/btl.

The point was not whether to have an all-inclusive package or not. Your original post discussed purchasing the standalone beverage package - not the Plus fare option. The point was it would be wrong to purchase the stand-alone beverage packages over the Cruise Fare Plus package due to simple cost effectiveness. We don't purchase the Plus or Premier option as it doesn't work for us. Sounds like you are the same, but were at least looking into it.

Sure.