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Well, that may make things more difficult on the ship. Be prepared to argue your case. Hopefully they'll accept the list. After all, demanding the original printout is kind of a belt-and-suspenders administrative procedure. Years ago I too simply used a list from and Excel spreadsheet and it was accepted. Heck, I recall handing them a handwritten paper with numbers which they used to credit my account. Things have changed so as I initially said, be prepared to make your case.

You should have received an email from AARP for each card you purchased. Each email has a link to the associated card. That link takes you to a webpage with your card number and PIN on it. On that same page is a link to "Print" the page. I always save to a PDF which is usually an option under the Print but may be on the same page. Anyway, you can print from the card page or print the PDF file you've saved. I once tried to give customer service a simple list of card numbers and pins. They would not accept that. They wanted printed pages. I had to go to the Internet Cafe and go through my emails (again) and print the cards onboard.

My TA is across the continent so unless we're visiting Florida, we can't run down the road and drop off the card printouts. As @Thrak said, you don't get physical cards, rather you get an email for each card which contains a link to get the official "card" which is actually a couple of pages. You can print them out like Thrak does and take them to your TA. OTOH in my situation I save each "card" in a dated and numbered PDF file and then cut and paste the numbers into a spreadsheet (warning: long strings of numbers don't paste well into Excel, place an apostrophe in front of the long number and then you're OK) including dates purchased, when and how redeemed and so on. For each redemption I copy the just the numbers I'm redeeming into a separate spreadsheet, encrypt it and then email it to my TA. I send him the unlock password either by phone or text message (I'm kind of paranoid about sending information that's that valuable over email). I also take printouts of the "cards" I will likely redeem onboard with me. I've had guest services refuse a list from a spreadsheet, they want the printouts.

The package includes 15 alcoholic drinks per day per person. Non-alcoholic drinks like specialty coffees and sodas are unlimited. After one uses their 15 alcoholic drink limit it is up to the discretion of the bar staff if you will be served more. If you are served more you simply get the drink charged to your onboard account. The days of taking a case of wine onboard are now limited. You get one bottle per person for cabin consumption at no fee. Anything over that there's a corkage fee. Last I knew it was $15 per bottle. "Corkaged" bottles can be consumed anywhere. This may have changed recently as with the advent of the "packages" the economics of bringing wine onboard have changed. IMHO (and I haven't done the math) it's only good to bring wine onboard if it's a high-end wine you must have and can't get on the ship,.

Not sure @dw64 is a captain, just retired from the airlines. Could have been a gate agent (which actually would have had more experience with TSA Pre-Check than a pilot). Regardless, I believe @dw64 is confusing Global Entry, which is absolutely tied to a passport and includes TSA Pre-Check with stand-alone Pre-Check.

Yes and no. You can send a message but the person who receives it is not notified. The app must be manually checked for a message. Of course ordering room service as well as Ocean Now items (drinks, snacks, etc) is available on the ship and not off the ship. Port descriptions are typically not available off the ship. Crew Chat is not available off the ship. Checking your folio is not available off the ship.

One of the most exposed balconies on the ship. Wear PJs and no hanky panky!

I don't know who at Princess told you that there was a ten card limit but my personal experience is quite different. I've recently sent my TA almost twenty nine GCs for an upcoming booking. They were applied without any issues.

I see no reason why that could not be done. After all it's OK to make multiple partial payments by credit card toward a cruise as long as you're all paid up before the final payment date. Just because it's possible though, it may not be the most efficient way to make payment. You have to package up the gift card numbers and PINs in some secure manner and get the info to your TA each time you do this. Then your TA has to allocate time to unpack the information and then start entering numbers, hopefully a copy-and-paste operation. Anyway, I'm not a TA but if I were, my personal preference would be to do it all at once rather than piecemeal multiple times.

Looks like they could control a mid-size commercial airport from there.

Having seen some aft photos of the Sun Princess taken at night, it's lit up with bright blue lights. This reminded me of a Marina deck cabin we once had on the Royal Princess that was externally illuminated with purple lights at night. I really didn't like it and am curious to hear how it is in the aft-facing cabins.

Great idea! Our Arizona presidential preference vote is this coming Tuesday ...

Lower floors for these cabins might smell smoke from the aft smoking area. Maybe not so much while the ship is in motion but certainly there's a good chance when the ship is docked or moored.

We're going to be one deck below this cabin in June. I've looked extensively at aft photos of the Sun Princess and it sure looks like they're going to be great wake view balconies, the only ones on the ship BTW. Still waiting for someone to post photos from these balconies though. That would confirm it.

@cr8tiv1 is spot on. You can go ahead an keep checking for a guarantee assignment (I would) but try not to worry. I've never seen a report of someone with a guarantee not getting a cabin. Our own personal experience with guarantees though was getting assigned within a week of booking but that was back in 2012. With the Sun Princess, the fact that I still can't make dinner reservations for our June 1 cruise tells me that the folks responsible for this new ship are way too busy putting out small "fires" and will probably get to things like guarantee assignments at the last minute. For now, I'd check my personalizer every couple of days and in mid-April I'd start checking every day until I had an assignment.

Not even sure they have that as pop-ups ... we were on her in 2023.

Virtual Running Shorts sounds a bit scary to me. 😱

Could it be the new home for the PES (Platinum, Elite and Suites) "happy hour" that exists on all the other Princess ships? Operationally they'd simply post crew members at the entrance(s) and add a temporary sign announcing the event for PES guests only. Given the PES hours on the Sun Princess (at least for current cruises) are something like 4:00 to 5:30, that might already be a low attendance time for Crooners anyway.

That is an incomplete statement and requires more detail to be accurate. You can use the ship's WiFi Intranet for all sorts of free local access on the ship. The Medallion App for instance uses the free WiFi to order room service, order a drink, see the daily schedule, locate companions, use Crew Chat and so on. To access the Internet via the ship's WiFi, you must pay. What I was originally saying is that there have been instances of WhatsApp and iPhone iMessages working when only connected to the ship's free Intranet as there has been a "port" or "portal" in the Intranet allowing these messages onto the Internet. This has been true in the past and may still work now but haven't tested it lately.

Lights off?

Sorry, I meant to and say should have said "ship's WiFi" instead of "local WiFi".

Considering there's a YouTube Live video going on right now with the person using their mobile phone to create it, I don't think it's an issue indoors.

Come on, this is a software function and we all know how well Princess IT works.

The last time we were in that class (was Club Class then) was on the Island Princess. On that ship, the "Reserve/Club Class Dining" was a separate section of one of the MDRs. The special section was definitely open for lunch on embarkation day. When we approached the dining room entry, there must have been a notification on someone's screen triggered by our medallions. The staff hurried to greet us and escort us to our special section. We had been upgraded to a suite (first time in a suite) and didn't expect that treatment. What a pleasant surprise. I suspect this is the case where there aren't separate restaurants but separate sections. I do not know about the new Sun Princess which does have a separate Reserve restaurant.

We also accumulate plenty of FF points too so we have to balance EZAir, direct airline purchases and then the FF deals. The FF deals aren't always that great either, too many points required, terrible flight choices and so on. For our upcoming RT through Barcelona we ended up going with a mixed AA/BA deal that was a mixture of points and money. It beat EZAir and wasn't that many points but the connections weren't as good. Money saved won out on that one.