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OP is flying in the day before the cruise. No Princess shuttle from any airport that day unless a Princess hotel package was booked.

Many of the hotels near EWR have shuttles to and from the airport. Just shuttle back to the airport the following day and pick up the Princess transfer. I would choose EWR over JFK or LGA any day of the week!

Is it possible to switch out the 2 beers, for 2 more little bottles of vodka?

The Golden has two cabins on the Sun Deck that are as you describe, Oceanview with full length windows, Cabins S702 and S704.

Those Oceanview cabins cost more than a balcony!! :eek:

LGA is the closest, but JFK is not that much further, so pick the one which has the best flight arrangements for you.

 

For transportation from airport to ship I suggest a limo service such as carmel or dial7, both of which can be pre-booked on the Internet.

Check out flights to EWR, better than LGA or JFK.

Agree with all of the above...

 

Regarding the Patter, we sometimes wish we had TWO as each of us would like to have one when we go opposite directions!!! LOL

We tell our room steward on the first day that we would like 2 patters every evening. It has never been a problem.

If their intent is to save paper...how about fewer sales brochures. We usually get 3-4 pieces of paper daily that go immediately into the trash can. Don't even look at them.:cool:

Ditto! I'd much rather have the Patter than 4 or 5 Art Auction, Spa and sale flyers per night. How about all those photos that get tossed at the end of a cruise?

Penny wise and pound foolish. :rolleyes:

I enjoy sitting in bed at night with a cup of tea and a highlighter and finding things I want to do the next day. Not everyone gets off on port days.

Going on an Alaskan one this July. Looking to do the whale watching and Mendenhall glacier when in Juneau. Has anyone purchased this excursion outside of the cruise line? I know thru the cruise line there is a guarantee of getting back to the ship on time and they tack on a fee for them, so thinking if I book online directly thru them not Princess it's a better deal. Any suggestions on where to purchase?

 

 

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In Juneau, you will see lots of kiosks at the base of the tram. Most any of those will offer whale watching and Mendenhall Glacier trips. They are all very aware of cruise ship times and will get you back in plenty of time.

We booked one the day we were in Juneau. Didn't want to be locked into a Princess excursion if it was going to be raining all day. Luckily it was sunny and we saw a couple of whales and lots of sea lions.

Thank you so much for the quick replies! Hopefully you enjoyed the Regal!?

We love the Regal. Going back onboard in October! The buffet can't be beat. We like it better than the MDR.

We had D729 & D731 on our last Regal cruise. Huge covered balconys. No soot issues. Loved them!!

Hi all, we originally had a balcony cabin booked for our Panama canal cruise in October before changing to an oceanview guarantee. We don't have a cabin allocated yet.

 

Now my partner wants to go back to having a balcony, which has got me thinking it'd be nice! :rolleyes: :D

 

We have had guarantee cabins before with other cruiselines and loved the cabin assignments we got. :D

 

My question is: should we wait a bit longer to see what we get assigned and if more than a week out, see what balcony cabins are available? :confused: I know we may not get allocated a cabin until a couple days prior to sailing. Or should we take the plunge and switch to a balcony cabin? :D

 

Decisions, decisions! :cool:

Well, lets see. There are 156 other OV cabins all hoping for upgrades, and currently the website is showing only 9 balconies available. If you wanted a balcony you should have booked one.

No' date=' a marriage license is not required by any line I'm familiar with. The requirement is a certified birth certificate and a government issued photo ID.

 

Passports are easier and safer.[/quote']

 

If your birth certificate says "Mary Jones" but your drivers license says "Mary Smith" how could you account for the name change unless you had a marriage certificate to verify the change. You could get anyone's birth certificate who's first name was Mary and use that. :confused:

I guess if you were a married female you would have to produce a marriage license in addition to the birth certificate and drivers license.

I've convinced my travel companion to get a passport. :D

Thanks everyone for all your input.

Is a passport required for a round trip cruise leaving from NY to Canada? Thanks :)

Hello everyone,

 

Traveling on July 19th on the Crown to Alaska with 8 family members (four cabins) for my Mother's 75th birthday. My siblings and I are wanting to book (we realize there is no guarantee they will be chosen for either activity but hoping we get lucky) the chef's table and ultimate ships tour as a surprise for her and her boyfriend.

After doing some research on the boards, it looks like I need to call the dine line ASAP after boarding and put in a request for the chef's table. I'm hoping they will be chosen and get a surprise letter delivered to their cabin and then pay for both of them on my account. Has anyone done this for another cabin?

For the ship's tour, it looks like I need to high tail it to the customer service desk and put in a request for them. Am I right on this? Again, has anyone done this for other passengers? Lastly, as anyone traveled to Alaska this season and knows what day the tour was on?

 

Thanks for any and all replies!!

I was able to sign up for both the Chef's Table and the UST at the Passenger Services Desk. The cost of the UST is $150/pp and the CT about $95/pp. The UST is usually held on the last sea day.

I got what I paid for, so I have complaints.

Paul probably has complaints because he didn't get upgraded. ;)

I have a friend who is a high volume Princess agent. I always get a great deal to begin with. Months ago I booked B2B cruises. The other day I got an email re-confirming the 2 - 14 day B2B cruises I have planned for April 2017. Both qualified for the Sip & Sail, plus I got close to a $400 savings on each cruise! I didn't have to do a thing. My TA always checks the sales and automatically refares when appropriate.

As Pam always says, it pays to have a good TA! ;)

When we arrived in our cabin there was a card telling us the date and time of our dinner. We have no interest in specialty dining, so turned ours in at passenger services for OBC. :D

We already have priority tender embarkation as Elites. Yes, we have to get to the end of the line, but if we are in a hurry, we get there early and are at the front. If we are not in a hurry, we wait for the rush to clear.

 

500 or 1000 sounds like a reasonable cutoff. I would not have a cruise credit qualification.

We all know about leaving the ship but when returning to the ship from a port, be it by tender or just a separate walk up line for Suites & Elites only. Not all their friends too. :rolleyes: Just like at the Pursers Desk. That would certainly be a nice free perk for Princess to implement. ;)

Since Elites are a dime a dozen now, there needs to be a higher level. Only sea days should count toward Capt Circle level. Traveling as a single in a suite on a 1 night cruise and getting 3 cruise credits is frankly BS. Days is the only fair way for everyone. :(

I suppose that the name tags are there more to assist the room stewards than anything else.

 

In their absence, I suppose that each steward would be required to memorize which names are assigned to which cabin in their area(s)...or carry a passenger registry around with them.

 

I imagine that there would be a lot more chance for error in delivering the wrong mail, and/or amenities to cabins in such a case where cabin #s (as an identifier) alone wouldn't suffice.

The room stewards have a list of everyone's name, age and country of origin. The names on the cabin are not for them.

I think we've all experienced incidents where people are trying to locate which cabin they belong to when they are "two sheets into the wind".

 

I certainly appreciate that little reminder this is my cabin... ;)

 

One of our little fun cruise pastimes is a stroll around the deck to see how many past passengers are onboard, and whether we might have a chance to get an invite to a party or something. Then we check with the Captain's Circle Hostess for the real numbers.

 

If they take the name off the door, then please put the cabin number back on my cruise card, because I may never find it again... :rolleyes:

I would never want the cabin number on the card. Talk about security, more than once my card has fallen out of my pocket. The last thing I would want is someone picking up the card and entering my cabin.

Just sounds like another cost cutting measure by Princess.

Thanks all.....I appreciate the advice.

 

We are very conscious and would never do anything to bother anyone else.

 

As far as safety, like I said, she would just be dangling her feet or legs, with me sitting on one side and her pregnant mommy on the other. If others were in the jacuzzi, we probably wouldn't do it at all.

Pregnant women should not be in hot tubs nor should an 18 mo. old. I find it hard to believe that an 18 mo. old is 100% potty trained. You mean she NEVER wears a diaper, only regular underpants?

Mexican Rivera out of LA.

 

 

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Just curious. What type of cabin did you originally book?

I was just curious if anybody knew if the crew on board had a preference for which currency their (extra) tips are in when cruising in Europe. I would assume they want Euros, but as I will probably have a mix of euros and American dollars I figured it was worth checking. We like to give a little bit of cash to our room Steward and waiters, I suppose I could ask them their preference but that seems a little forward.

Either Euros or Dollars would be fine. Just don't dump all your left over currency, such as pesos, krone, rubles etc on the crew. It costs them money to convert it and you are not doing them any favors.

Minis have different bed configuration. To know what to really expect, it is better to call Princes and confirm if your cabin has an upper berth.

Don't waste your time calling Princess to find out about a cabin. They will know jack. No mini is going to have beds hanging off the wall.

If there are only 2 of you, the extra beds will not be an issue, as they come out of the ceiling. You will not even know they are there.