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I would suggest calling Princess. Email response is slow to non-existent.

What are the temperatures like? Trying to pack for next sailing.

I vaguely remember seeing a tab in the wine list in the dining room in Discovery last month listing organic wines. Did a quick search on Mr Google and he indicates Princess has Organic wines are available. Once again no wine listing. Sulfite free is another issue. Good luck. If you can bring in your favorites.

Different world. This was when the US was closed until you were required to be 10 days from positive. We had a wonderful week in London courtesy of Princess because we could not fly home. Husband had symptoms for one day. No quarantine regulations on England. Per diem and pre paid hotel covered all expenses. We ended up spending an extra day as there were no business class seats available into San Diego. Alaska appears to have a major Covid issue.

I live in the US. Our CVP had nothing to do with the FCC showing on our accounts. The ship told us it would show up in a couple of days and it did. I think the benefit to us was the lack of insurance.

DH was quarantined in May 2022 after catching Covid on a British Isles cruise. FCC showed up within 3 days of disembarking. For some reason I forgot to add insurance to this trip. All expenses for shoreside quarantine we reimbursed exactly as documented in the letter we received. No issues from me. We contacted our CVP and the FCC was applied to the cruise of our choice we already had booked.

When I submitted DS and SIL documentation for Military OBC they were approved within a couple of minutes. I waited 14 days after submission for the funds to be applied to the booking took a call to my CVP to have them applied.

From another Grandmother who paid all expenses for an Alaska cruise. If you did not input your own credit card info on the App for onboard expenses your can go down to Guest Services and have your card input. We recently did this for our Alaska Discovery with no issues. Another suggestion, if appropriate, have Guest Services give access to all cabins in your party. Enjoy your family trip. Memories.

They were definitely on the first leg of the December 1 Antarctica cruise last year. Never had a reason to use them on the second leg as the weather was dreadful.

Absolutely do not agree. Everyone knew boarding and disembarking was in Ensenada. This was in the early 2010. At no time did we feel unsafe. The reason for the horrendous statement was the cruise line had made arrangements for all the buses to go through Otay Mesa crossing. When you have 40+ buses showing up for Immigration the delays were extended. I definitely would do it again.

Years ago we travelled back and forth to Hawaii on the Celebrity Solstice from San Diego to Hawaii. Check in was at a hotel in San Diego, boarded buses and we transferred to Ensenada to board the ship. Similar on boarding in Hawaii, disembark in Ensenada, bus to San Diego. Everyone with the exception of ships company was required to bus transfer to San Diego (Casino, Art, Spa, shops staff included). Southbound transfer was okay with the exception of the buses that got lost. Northbound was horrendous because of the border crossing. The ship dead headed to San Diego to board the next cruise as it was not from one US port to another. PVSA at its finest.

Vancouver is not a distant foreign port. You could disembark in Vancouver and board a different ship, no violation. Or you could take the Princess transfer from Vancouver to Seattle and visit your daughter. LA to LA and Seattle to Seattle are closed loop, boarding and disembarking same port. Good luck and hopefully you can work it out to visit family.

The Sapphire had far better double loungers on our December cruises than the ones on the Crown. Adjustable back rests.

Definitely a violation. You are going from Los Angeles to Seattle. No distant foreign port visited. You could do the LA to Vancouver with no issues.

I used a FCD purchased in 2022 that has been recycled several times and expires 10/24 for this booking. No issues. The expiration dates are book by dates. So anything in your inventory should be available to place on the booking.

I would go to the Internet cafe and see if you can log on there. Have had issues being on a cruise and unable to access to Elite booking in the past. If you feel comfortable let me know the cabin you are interested in and I will check if it is still available and the very inflated prices.

The cruises were available for booking around 8:00am Pacific this morning. We are booked in our desired location. Does not look like heavy bookings as of an hour or so ago. Prices are definitely higher than in the past LA round trips.

As someone who lives in San Diego, temps in January should be mid 60’s during the day, mid 40’s at night. Days will be sunny. Current temps are in the mid-80’s - low 90’s.

Yes.

Has anyone been able to actually print the port guides after downloading from the App.

My guess, yes. Two seats occupied, 2 charges.

Any recommendations for a SIM card to use when visiting Norway.

We, group of 8, utilized Port Valet out of Seattle in June after disembarking the Discovery. Princess made enrollment in the service very easy. The issues we had were being charged for bag fees when entitled to free baggage as activity duty military and flights booked with airline credit card. The exemptions were listed and checked on the enrollment form. Found the baggage fees were from a company called Bags Inc out of Florida. Port of Seattle has contracted with Bags Inc. After a couple of emails finally ended up with a response from Bags Inc who sent a check for the $280 baggage fees. One of our bags did not make it to our final destination but was delivered 2-3 days later at 4:30am. Would use Port Valet in the future as it makes disembarking chaos so much easier.

Thank you, I did not expect her to go down that way.

I think there may be an error in the schedule. There is no way Sapphire can do the same route in 17 days. I would assume the 1 December would be LA to Santiago, very similar to 22 and 23 schedules.