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https://www.princess.com/legal/passage_contract/pcl.html Guests are also prohibited from bringing water, sodas and other non-alcoholic beverages on board that are packaged in bottles. A small quantity of non-alcoholic beverages (i.e., sparkling water, sodas, juice, milk) packaged in cans or cartons may be brought on board on embarkation day, only if carried on in Guests’ hand luggage (not in checked luggage). A small quantity is considered a maximum of 12 sealed, unopened cans/cartons of 12 ounces each or less per person. Guests will be asked to discard open beverages in plastic containers prior to boarding. This has been discussed many times prior on these boards. Bottles are banned. It was a change in the passenger contract after the restart after covid. Read the passenger contract you agreed to as part of your booking. Its all in there.

-Laundry may be closed in port. Not sure about Ft Lauderdale. Tokens are available from machines in the laundry room. You use your cruise medallion (round disk instead of card) to pay for the tokens. Also you can buy tokens at passenger services if the machines are empty. -There are machines in the laundry rooms that sell soap, also for tokens - they are different tokens so be careful when you use the token machine to buy the right number of washer dryer tokens vs laundry soap tokens. We prefer to bring our own as we are sensitive to some fragrances. Also, the machines may be sold out. Historically, Princess has had older style top loading big machines. They work well. We put them on permanent press / warm as the "hot" or "normal" cycle is very hot! -Go onto the website / personalizer where you manage your cruise. Under "onboard services" goto "beverage packages" there is "stateroom bottled water service" -Bars sell sparkling water. San Pelligrino or Perrier, depending on supply. -Dining rooms usually are open for breakfast all days, and lunch only on sea days. You can request a paper copy of the daily Patter and it will tell you on the back what is open. The info will also be in the app when you are onboard, but I don't know exactly where in the app as I use the paper Patter. Enjoy!

If the cabins are in different areas, different muster stations, and that muster station is full or close to full, then any cabins in that area will be restricted in capacity to what is left for muster. So only double occupancy may be allowed due to muster capacity. Or, they may be reserving it for a group of 4. Or the sales rep may have been wrong.

The press release states all balc cabins will have a sofa. The "accomodations" on the Sun Princess page show only "deluxe balc" cabins -- with sofa. i'm glad because then we have a place to sit!

No deck plans yet that I can find.

https://www.princess.com/ships-and-experience/ships/su-sun-princess/ Elites need to CALL to book today.

https://www.orlandosentinel.com/travel/florida-cruise-guide/os-princess-cruises-sun-princess-sphere-class-pictures-20220915-koil2ywnunfjxieyh4g5dwr24y-photogallery.html

We've taken our kids to Crown Grill for years. Since they were little and now they are young adults. They pay half price under 16 I believe. Make a reservation for early - if you can't get one on the app, go first day onboard and speak to the staff in Crown Grill. They will "find" you an early table. We always had a great time - our kids loved it and always looked forward to it on our annual cruises.

We were told in March that the cards and tshirts were only for when Good Spirits was launched. For sailings after the restart, if they had supplies of recipe cards and tshirts onboard leftover, they gave them out. But once they ran out no new supplies were sent to the ships.

We did this many times. The two cabins must be close together and the bookings must be "Linked" in the Princess system, and book the cabins with "no upgrade". There are some cabins on some ships that have inside connecting doors - you may wish to look for that option as well. Just like hotel connected rooms. Either call Princess and hope to get an experienced agent, or use your travel agent to call and do the booking. They will link the dining reservations as well. In the app add the kids as your dining companions and book dining reservations for all of you. Do checkin for both bookings (each cabin has its own booking number) on the website using the link, or use the app - you have to log in and out of the two bookings. It used to be that the parent could do the checkin for the minor kids' cabin on the old website personalizer. With the new system I don't know if this is still an option or not as our kids are not minors anymore. If you have issues with the checkin and can't get to "green lane" for everyone, just bring all your paperwork to embarkation and check in at the port. Once you are onboard, all of you go to passenger services and they will program your medallions to open the cabin doors on both cabins. Tell them to give you access to the kids' folios which are charged to your credit card (this used to be automatic but on my recent cruise they had to change a setting in the computer onship to allow me to see all the accounts that I was paying for with my card). Also we would inform the steward that we were all together and tell them to speak to us if there were any concerns. The steward can also open the divider between the balcony cabins for you. Enjoy!

I've never seen a discount onboard.

What a terrible situation. It was unfortunate that you were not told that you could perform all checkin at the port when you embarked the ship. Doing it all 100% beforehand was not actually required. That was the advice here on CC earlier in the year after the restart when the app didn't work and the website was not available. Enjoy HAL!

We were on Enchanted in March in the Caribbean. Wifi was good. So I think the crew are correct that it is an issue with the satellite provider / system. Also don't forget that if there is reduced bandwidth, passengers are behind ship operations & hotel operations for internet usage. Not much left I guess.

No. See photo of ship attached.

Maybe they are working on the DMW app. Today I was able to book our dining - two cabins linked, the first option was "Reserve the same time each day" So I picked a time (it offered me every 1/2 hour all evening), picked a dining room (all 3 were offered) and it seems to have given us what I put in for every day of the cruise, late December. Hopefully the reservations don't disappear.

Yay!! Cheapodad returns to CC! And on Princess!! Following! ( a fellow bean counter here too!)

Thanks all. We've had no issues for many years of cruising when we've booked Traditional dining. We put the allergy in the personalizer, we'd get the confirmation email, they'd have no idea on the ship but we'd go the first day to the Maitre'd open house and he would set us up perfectly. No issues in many years of cruising! With the new app, all I've read are stories of folks not being able to get the "Traditional" experience no matter what they do. That has had me concerned. We don't want to have to explain and start fresh with a new team every night. From what I'm reading here it seems like the earlier reports of people not being able to book same table same time every night in the app are no longer. With her allergy we prefer to only deal with one team. I hope we can book a "Traditional" experience in the app too! Thanks!

A family member has anaphylactic tree nut allergies. In the past we've done traditional dining & the head waiters have done an amazing job taking care of her. With the new dining app and all the fun that goes along with it, HOW do we navigate the allergy pre-ordering if we are seated at a different table / time every night? Any recommendations or tips that you have would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

New teaser is out ….. definitely pasta involved!

The areas you mention all have bars nearby. Would take you 5 min to walk up to the bar, order & get your drink, go back and sit down. Sanctuary has its own servers and food menus - they will take care of you. The app delivery menu is a set list of items you can choose from. It is not "Everything" available on the ship. It is not very customizable. You are better off going and grabbing what you want yourself, and getting exactly your preferences. Its not that far. The speed of delivery using the app is dependent on staffing levels. Currently all cruise lines are having staffing issues partly due to problems with travel paperwork backlogs world wide. The delivery is based on the medallion sensors which in my personal experience are not very accurate, especially on the pool decks. My family members were shown at the spot where the system last detected them, meanwhile they were sitting in a deck chair and no other sensor had picked them up. We've also watched servers wander aimlessly trying to find someone carrying their items.

I find it interesting that the Plus wines are listed by type only and not by brand. Are they switching to a "house" wine system? Or is it whatever brand the location has?

Any ideas?

Canadian here - we had no issues entering postal codes for our March 2022 cruise. Can you input the info on the website? Is it possible you are not on the Canadian version of the website? If you are logged into your account on the website, then you goto your cruise, then try to input info does it work there? They may have implemented an update to the website and app that are preventing you from doing this currently. You can always add your credit card and finish checkin at the pier before you get on the ship. You have to pick up your medallions at the pier anyways as they don't ship to Canada.

Is she using PCR or Antigen tests? PCR can test positive for months because it detects dead virus. But Antigen is different and only looks for current active viral load. She should use a proctored Antigen test to see if she currently has active viral load.

Just FYI - all the ships I've been on have a machine close to passenger services where you scan your medallion and print your folio statements. No need to stand in line!