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Ahh thanks. No we missed it by a few weeks as we did the Discovery coastal from Vancouver to LA in September and won't be doing a West Coast trip for a while now (the jet lag was awful lol!). Just interested to see how it might work.

Is that the 360 experience? If so, would love to know how you got the invite since us Brits don't usually get phone calls from the Princess team in the US.

Uh-oh. More chatter from another social site: - Someone on Sky Princess posted that the Captain Circle Hostess confirmed Captain Tuvo had jumped ship to MSC. - Someone else then contacted him and he is now on MSC Seaview!

The hot desserts are also very nice in the buffet. I am fond of the bread and butter pudding and peach cobbler with custard. One of our trivia companions on Discovery Princess in September had an obsession with going up to the buffet each evening specifically to grab a hot dessert and would regale us with her findings and ratings at the next trivia game!

Maybe this has been confused with Dino Sagani who was the original Majestic Princess captain? He did move to MSC

I think Regal was based in the Med this summer but she definitely had kettles last year when based out of Southampton - most Princess ships do.

We had Egg Drop Challenge on the Discovery Princess Pacific Coastal from Vancouver to LA in late September this year - they asked for passengers to sign up on the first sea day and the event was on the last sea day. Only one lady actually turned up with her parachute and egg basket but she did a fantastic job!

The 360 phone call invitation method is a bit old school and sounds like something they organised on the fly maybe? I don't think it works for all suite passengers either. We were in a suite on Discovery and missed out on the trials by a month anyway but as an international passenger (from the UK) I doubt they would be phoning us directly the week before the cruise - in the same way they can't send us medallions by post!

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Well it came back to Sky Princess recently! Here's a video from the round trip cruise from Southampton to New England/Canada in September/October. Sarah Vanderplank is the ACD leading the choir.

No Princess aren't charging from the outset for 360 according to their press release - it's invite only if you are in a suite, book a future suite or are involved in VIP Casino gaming and retail event sailings. I would have thought this would still be the case on your NYE cruise if they aren't rolling out until late Jan on Enchanted.

And probably very similar to this Whimsy Immersive 360 Dining Experience video

We have always managed to book our first night of suite speciality dining using Dine My Way on the app. It knows you are booked in a suite and won't display a charge. You can add also guests here using their booking number but never tried that for other suite passengers.

There are no Med cruises from Southampton. There's a repositioning cruise departing from Barcelona on Sep 14 arriving in Southampton on Sep 22 and a Transatlantic departing from Southampton on Sep 23 All the itineraries up to the Transatlantic are in the attached SunPrincess.pdf

Princess are meant to be launching the 360 immersive dining experience on Discovery Princess on your cruise - they have been having free trials in the last few weeks. So if that's of interest you may want to see if they can book you on it (could be a charge of $150pp). See this thread for more detail.

Thank you for reporting back and what a treat to experience it first! We are simple eaters too so probably won't be trying this especially at that price!

Yes, we had Club Class on Discovery Princess last month and it was in the Skagway Dining Room

To be honest, the first 3 voyages seem to be incredibly pricey so start saving now!

For our Pacific Coastal last month, they had an Arts and Crafts Project of the Day session on quite a few days, a cross-stitch session, napkin folding, towel folding and an egg drop challenge

Here are the Sun Princess itineraries SunPrincess.pdf

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I believe Alex still owns the cafe up the road from us but is definitely back with Princess as ED on Regal according to his social account.

My other half won't eat lamb at home so it's usually a real treat for me to order this off the menu. Pre-covid there used to be lamb shank which was awesome but now it's just a couple of slices. On Discovery Princess last month, the offering was too fatty for my liking and the radioactive looking mint jelly had little flavour. Not that enjoyable at all.

Yes, we were on the Vancouver-LA Discovery coastal a couple of weeks ago and she had to come into Vancouver around 3am and delay departure until midnight because of the low tides.

These were posted on social media by the Princess UK team, not sure if these were generally available: The Sanctuary and the Solarium on Sun Princess