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Ok, so it looks like they are operating. 😄

All Princess bridge cams are offline since Sunday March 26. 🙄

A question about the current Sapphire setup: Are the (usually free of charge) saunas and steam rooms at the Lotus Spa on Deck 15 available? Or are they out of service? I've read something like that for the Emerald some time ago.

Find the error(s).

Did you make a full circle around Cape Horn today? The Crown did in 2017. An the Captain said he would never do it again. 😆 West of the island 90° heavy side winds. Heeling of the ship was funny for about 15 minutes.

I prefer Grand Turk as the Bahamas inbetween stop much more than an articicial private beach anything.

Never seen that on any Princess cruise. 😄

The grass is always greener on the other side? Back in 2020. “Virgin Atlantic had 8,500 employees and Branson has asked them to take 8 weeks unpaid leave. It would cost £4.2 million to pay all of these employees £500 a week to cover this leave. In total that’s a cost of £34 million for 8 weeks.” The implication appears to be that billionaire Richard Branson, whose net worth Forbes estimates $3.8 billion, could afford to cover this cost easily. At the same time, Sir Richard Branson wanted a $500 million bailout for Virgin from the United Kingdom government.

The other 4x4s were the ships tour. I did that in 2017 with a Princess shorex, the Patrick Watts people were just with us.Same tour, Princess price. All very well organized from the locals. Driving in a convoy and nobody will be left behind. But Volunteer Point is indeed priceless. Seeing king penguins in the wild from just 2 m away. You can't top that. The Sapphire missed Falkland on the sailing before. So be grateful. 👍

The question is: Do you think the experience thing is there to just whitewash a standard / mediocre food quality dinner?

'Immersive experience' indicates something similar like the 360 Dining Experience. I think it will be a fancy bar with the immersive LED walls, beamers, etc. So Magic Hour Bar sounds realistic. The 'Immersive experience' thing is a hype throughout the travel / restaurant industrie at the moment, not just cruise lines.

After returning to San Pedro, there is only a 6-day west coast sailing ending in Vancouver, followed by a 17 day dry dock break. I think the big resupply will be in Vancouver for the upcoming Alaska season April 29. By the way, is the wine refrigerator at Vines Bar repaired?

And now you're arriving late in Phuket.

Is this a NZ, AU or JP cruise? Then I think it's normal.

Did the situation improve after the SIN stop?

Shouldn't the next stop be Langkawi? Bridge Cam sais Penang? 🤔

It's gone since around 2015 or so.

The Sapphire was at Sembawang Shipyard in Singapore instead of Portland in January 2021. Source: https://cruiseindustrynews.com/cruise-news/2021/01/trio-of-cruise-ships-drydocks-to-start-2021/

This is an outdated info from 2021. There are no voyages between April 12 and April 29, 2023. Voyage H308N ends in Vancouver, BC on April 12, Voyage H310N starts in Vancouver, BC April 29. So most likely, dry dock will be in Victoria, BC. Although Portland, OR would be possible, too. The last scheduled dry dock was from December 31, 2020 to January 17, 2021 in Portland OR. As the two years are over, it looks this will be just a routine dry dock with the usual refurbishments.

I could match Princess Elite to MSC Voyagers Club Diamond (Black) in 2019. But never used it. 😆

I bet they were sugar free. Many of the cakes at the IC had a `sugar free` notice on the Regal lately.

Mixed.

Serious.