Hobbes67

Thank you all for your help with my questions. It is great to know that there are some options for us!

I was told by Viking and also by Crystal that you are not allowed a curling iron onboard their river cruises. Are there any river cruises that do allow them?

We were on the Golden in June and the suite breakfast was in the Crown Grill. Food and service were excellent!!

Thank you for your help!

Does anyone know when they will announce cruises for Summer/Fall of 2020?

The best one I had was the toasted almond. Yum...

We were on a June 9th cruise on Golden and in a window suite. The cabin was great and the morning breakfast was in the Crown Grill, very near your cabin. I would recommend that you go every morning, service and food was great. They will bring you most anything you want including specialty coffees and Mimosa. We thought the food and service were also very good in Club Class dining. The couple of downsides were the buffet, which didn't look great to me so we didn't eat there. Also did not care for the Cruise Director. At bingo one day when the Captain came over the loud speaker to make an announcement he stated that we didn't have to listen as the Captain was boring. "Just sleep through it." He is the worst we have had in 23 cruises!! The other thing on the Golden that I thought was fun was harmonica lessons. The guy that teaches them is very good and patient with people. Everyone seemed to keep coming back so that is a good sign. Let me know if you have any specific questions.

I understand from Viking that you cannot take a curling iron. Is this true on other River lines?

We had a window suite on the Caribbean Princess in April' date=' and the things you described were not our situation. We did have a "forgetful" steward and I had to ask for things--laundry bag, embarkation letter, etc. We did get fruit in the room at embarkation, an orchid on the counter in the room and carnations in the bathroom. There were no formal night flowers; I didn't know that was a thing. We got embarkation canapes and later profitteroles without ordering either. Laundry was "next day." We did trade our mini bar for two unmarked coffee cards, but this was April before the electronic system started.

 

Your breakfast was in Crown Grill? Is there not a Sabatini's, or is CG the standard place on the Golden? I'm asking because we have a window suite on the Golden later this year. It sounds like there were a couple of serious gaps in your service.[/quote']

 

Yes, on the Golden the breakfast is in the Crown even though they do have a Sabatini's. Since you are in a window suite you will love it as it is very near the suite. Food and service was great! No coffee cards so you will want to take any old ones you have and see if they will use them.

We just got off the Golden 2 weeks, and had a window suite. Loved the breakfast in the Crown Grill and dinner in Club Class. Mostly loved how quiet it was and easy to get in and out of. Food was also very good. On the bad side, we did not get flowers on formal night nor were they offered. No champagne on Sail Away. No fruit in our room for 2 days and then our guy just happen to mention, hey do you want any fruit? Laundry was always second day, never same day. My daughter had the suite next door and when she asked for her husbands jacket to be pressed and back for the next day she was charged for it and was told because they got it late the day before. We are elite so I was going to change out our bar service for coffee cards, but they said they would just put the coffee cards (4) on our account for this cruise only. How could you use 4 coffee cards in a week. Since we had Sip and Sail we did not need the coffee cards either so we left the drinks in the cabin when we disembarked. Drank a few waters. I was hoping to get a survey when we got home as we had often gotten in the past, but one did not arrive. I contacted customer service to ask about it and have not heard back from them. So surprised! We have been on 24 cruises and have 2 more booked. Might start looking a other cruise lines to see what they are like.

I checked my junk mail and it is not there. Best bet will probably be to call Princess.

We just returned on Saturday from our cruise and was surprised to not have a survey waiting for us in our email. Is Princess still doing these?

We just got off yesterday and really only saw 2 buckets for water. A couple of times in the hallway I smelled an odor, but for the most part it wasn't bad. The food and the service we thought were very good. Didn't like the Cruise Director, in fact we thought he was the worst we have experienced in many years. Was surprised that he actually announced you should not stop and listen to the captain as he is very boring. Very disrespectful.

I did a live from on the Island Princess last week. This week I'm doing a live from on the Golden Princess. I'm posting Patters too, so take a look if you want to see some of the activities on each. Remember, though, as entertainment directors change so do onboard activities.

The live from for both are on my blog here: http://www.debsdays.com/

Thanks for the update on the Golden. We will be on June 9th, with the land portion first. How was the condition of the ship?

We are taking our 13 year old grandchild with us on an Alaska cruise. Can she go into bingo, trivia etc?

Thank you for the response, I think we will try it!

Has anyone gone on the Glacier Point Wilderness Safari - https://skagwayshoretours.com/tour/glacier-point-wilderness-safari. We are looking at doing this on our June cruise. We are in our 60's and still active so hopefully we can do it!

I just bought one for $6.90.

Sorry I didn't tell you the insurance. We are Elite and have coverage with Princess.

We were able to save about $600 each on a cruise with the most recent sale. When the new price calculated it only reduced our insurance $.12 each. How is this possible. Our agent didn't understand it either. Has anyone ever had this happen to them?

Hobbes, I was hoping that somebody would jump in with a definitive response because what I am about to give comes from memory. As I recall from our cruise on the Ruby Princess last February, the Suite Breakfast opened in the Crown Grill at 7:30 and ran until 10:00 or 10:30.

 

Again, if somebody can come in with a more authoritative answer, I will happily yield.

Thank you for getting back to me.:)

Is it one bag per person that will be trucked to the hotel, or one bag for the two of you?

Does anyone know the breakfast hours in Sabatini's or Crown Grill?

Thanks for all of the suggestions. Interesting that there is a pie baking class! Probably will go hiking, but might wait until we get there to make a final decision.

We are a day and 1/2 in Talkeetna as part of a Princess land/sea vacation. I know that you can take a shuttle into town, but what else is available. I saw on the hotel website a number of excursion that we are considering. Has anyone done any excursions there? I am not interested in any helicopter, but open to all others.