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On 4/5/2022 at 8:04 PM, cruisingram1 said:

That’s my point too. Instead of queuing on day 1 and walking to designated table on days 2-7 they’ve got us in the line every night. What a waste of time and  energy having to plead and beg for a table. Supposed to have pre-determined table designation tonight. We’ll see how that goes!

We were on a 12 night b2b in December on the Regal. When we set up our information on the medallion app, under dining preferences, we requested seating for 2 at 6:30 every night.   We were assigned a table, I believe in the Palm dining room,, and had the same table and waiter every night. On those nights we went to one of the specialty restaurants, we were able to cancel our main dining room reservation without loosing our table the following nights.

Does anyone know if these two venues are open on the CB?

On 11/10/2021 at 10:59 AM, generichandle said:

Jogging pants ok?

 

And I DO eat in buffet on formal nights. But the usually means missing upscale food [lobster, prime rib etc] which are exclusively served on formal nights. 

 

We’ve had prime rib in the buffet and I was surprised at how good it was.

4 minutes ago, Steelers36 said:

I wonder who it was?  A security person?  Was a Princess rep there?  I have not had this issue in FLL.  In fact you can bring on more and just be assessed corkage fee.  If the desk was operational, I'd just go to Passenger Services later and ask for an adjustment.

It was the person at the table after going through the security line. I didn’t argue, just paid the corkage fee. Which I probably would have done anyway in the dining room. 

On 1/25/2021 at 2:24 AM, caribill said:

 

Alternatively, you can bring on the allotted amount for both segments when embarking on the first segment.

  They wouldn’t let me do that on my b2b cruise out of Ft Lauderdale🥺

7 hours ago, MsSoCalCruiser said:

I do not care for the tapwater. Princess sells me cases of water every single cruise and I have not been told that that is going to stop but I will ask.  

It’s being offered on my Dec 9 cruise which I did not purchase the Princess Plus, but it’s not being offered on my Dec 13 cruise which I did buy the Princess plus. So, maybe it depends on the drink package purchased?

1 hour ago, jagoffee said:

Perhaps Princess will also stop selling/providing bottled water on board as well.

Bottled water being provided in the elite mini bar and drink package, I wonder what will offered in it’s place....

Please, no comments on how good the water is on board. I like to have water on my night stand and a glass is not safe with me. 

We don’t smoke, but I seem to remember that promenade deck, starboard side far aft, we saw people smoking. This would have been on the Royal/Regal.  Also, casino allows smoking, except for formal nights.  There’s also a cigar lounge.

If you're a fan of the English Pub lunch, it will be offered twice.

We were booked on a b2b on the Discovery. When they changed the ship to the Regal, they moved us, same mini suite mb category, to a different location. We were not happy with the new location but I couldn’t get the original cabin back.  I read that someone was upgraded from a balcony to a mini suite.  BTW, I always mark my cabin no upgrades. 

They’re not including location upgrades. This makes for higher fares.  The current fare is $328 more per person than when I booked this cruise in January. And it’s $525 more pp than the last fare reduction we got from early March.

This is the Crown Princess

2 hours ago, franktown said:

We have had much more problem with smaller groups 50 -100 people then larger groups.  Yes the larger groups sometimes take up a venue but at least most of their events are scheduled.  We were on the Regal with 5 or 6 smaller groups and it was a zoo.  The aft pool claimed every day by one group. Two or three of them would get up early and claim all the loungers.  Crooners completely taken over by another group almost every evening.  Not organized just every chair taken by the group.  

I guess we’ve been lucky. 28 Princess cruises and last years cruise was the first.  If we’ve been on with smaller groups, I didn’t notice them. 

3 hours ago, memoak said:

Google the date and name of the ship and any large group bookings should show up

I did that. Nothing showed up. Although I did find a website that listed the 3 January theme cruises.  Theme Cruise Finders showed mostly Azamara  cruises.   I can understand why the cruise line won’t tell you about large groups.

2 hours ago, skynight said:

Suggest you find another cruise. There are not enough lounges on the Sky to host closed events, even if the groups are small, as well as other guests. 

We’re not booked on any of those large group cruises sailing in January.  I learned from last year.  I’m trying to find if any large groups would be on our February 5th cruise

I learned that in Jan, 2022, the Sky Princess is hosting large music themed cruises, 3 weeks in a row.  Rock & roll, Polka and Irish.  We were on the Polka cruise last year and they closed Take 5 and the Vista 

Lounge every night.  This made for other entertainment venues to be overly crowded. Not a great experience.

I booked Feb 5, 2022 and I'm now wondering if I made a mistake.

Does anyone knows of any large groups that might be on this cruise.  I searched that date and found nothing.  

1 hour ago, skynight said:

If you are searching the Princess site there are lower fares for past cruisers that sign in. Maybe you remain signed in on some browsers and not on others. Just a thought.

I’ve not thought of that. I can check that out.

We have a b2b, first of which is with family.  My son’s wife checks for fare reductions. She called to tell me out cruise went down by

$125 pp.  I went to pull up that cruise as well as the one we were on by ourselves.  I opened Chrome on my IPad and got a higher fare than we were booked for.  I went to Safari and got the lower fare.  So, I checked all 3 of my cruises, Chrome on my IPad, Safari and Chrome on my husband’s Samsung android tablet.
IPad Chrome showed a fare of $1919 and Samsung Chrome and Safari showed a fare of $1794. 
Our B2B, IPad Chrome showed $1819 and Samsung Chrome and Safari showed a fare of $1694. 
We got the lower fare.  Had I not gone any further and relied on my IPad Chrome only, I would never had gotten a reduction.  In the future, I will check all for fare changes.
I had this happen once before. A difference between my laptop Chrome and my husband’s Samsung Chrome. We were given the lower fare.  
 

My husbands birthday is 2 weeks before mine.  He got one and I didn’t. 

On 2/26/2021 at 12:10 PM, pompeii said:

Thanks skynight and JF.   Thanks for the suggestion regarding BSE but we've never found the all-inclusive fare to our advantage since we do not imbibe.  We already get internet minutes, not unlimited of course but have always been more than sufficient, so the only real benefit to us would be gratuities.  The price difference has never justified it.  Our current no-frills fare includes cabin upgrade and specialty dining.  

 

We've been cruising with Princess for a while now so I am familiar with how it all works generally.  We've had our waitstaff and cabin steward change on longer cruises even when booked as one cruise, so I know that it can happen.  Mainly I'm just trying to make sure I consider any potential inconveniences in my decision making.  

 

So far, the plusses of shorter segments are additional obc, additional internet minutes, replenished minibar, having a better cabin for some of the segments. 

 

The minuses are having to change cabins, wasting time on turn-around day, having to purchase a new coffee package for each segment (offset by trading the minibar), new mdr table assignment (which could also be a plus depending on the situation 😉.)

 

Decisions, decisions...

We’ve been on a few b2b and always kept the same table.  One time I was on a b2b where we changed the dining time on the second half and we asked if we could have the same table and servers.  They did accommodate us.  
 

On 2/16/2021 at 12:18 PM, Ombud said:

Huh. I wasn't able to get chocolates on the refare / I already had location upgrade / specialty dining. Maybe I'll question further next time. 

I was able to get chocolates on 3 of my 5 booked cruises. Plus a lower fare on 2 cruises. Not huge reductions, but every little bit helps. 

On 1/31/2021 at 3:20 AM, caribill said:

 

You can submit a request with more than one cruise.

 

Some people have reported total success doing this and others have reported that the cruises after the first on the list were ignored.

Thank you.

Can you submit one request for more than one cruise, or one request for each cruise?

On 1/22/2021 at 2:56 PM, Thrak said:

 

Not likely... I don't need the MMR vaccination because I already had Measles, Mumps, and Rubella as a child. I also had Chickenpox. Having had those diseases I don't have any sort of vaccination records for them. Some of the others - Polio and DPT - were very commonly done when I was young but I don't have any sort of record to verify them. I guess the scar on my shoulder might provide partial proof. How in the world would people go about getting documentation of things done 60 or 70 years ago when they were children?

A few years ago, NY had an outbreak of measles. I remember as a child having one kind of measles and chicken pox. I still have the scars to prove that.  Not know if I had rubella or measles, I had a blood test to see if I was Immune.  
On a side note, I remember as a kid, going to the school auditorium and was given a polio vaccine in a sugar cube. Afterwards,  they rewarded us by showing Snow White.