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1 hour ago, louden said:

Surprised apart from learning about this release date on CC have received no direct  information from Princess.  Bookings might be open but not all.  Getting many areas saying reserved only or appear to be blocked/not released yet.  Once again if you are booking for two , cabins that can accommodate three are not available.  Very frustrating. 

 

Anyone else experiencing this ?

 

Louden

Booked the 14 day Baltic on the Sky earlier this morning and didn’t have any issues.

Thank you, I’ll try that!

Good afternoon, I was trying this weekend to price cruise tours for Europe 2025 but I could never get a specific room, only guaranteed rates, even with the Plus added on. Is it impossible to request specific rooms anymore? If I can’t choose my room I think we will end up doing a lane tour instead.

Thanks,

Jenny

Do you have luggage to check? Hopefully you do have TSA precheck.

the tunnel is open from Whittier on the hour, 7am, 8am, 9am, etc.

11:15am departure means a 9:15 check in which means having the bus transportation leaving Whittier at 8:15 ( leaving, not boarding the bus). I could be wrong but I would say it is highly unlikely that any Princess transport would make the 8:00am tunnel opening which then puts you back to 9am, possibly arriving in Anchorage sometime after 10:00am.

Jenny

Was happily surprised to have our FCD back to my credit card this morning. Cancelled our Dec 2020 cruise on March 15th. Also had a credit for two FCD's that expired on 5/15 refunded at the same time.

I noticed when looking at the 2021 cruise schedule for La Havre that Royal princess is listed for dates that seem to indicate a British Isle cruise schedule. I thought that Royal would be staying in Alaska with the Regal joining her in 2021?  Would they really change the ships like that or are they just using the Royal as a "placeholder"?

Thoughts/comments?

Jenny

Yes, anyone can book independently and stay there. It just depends on availability. We generally do a couple of nights each summer.

Yeah, I was having the same issue and wondered if it was the result of an “update “. Fixed my settings and no more preview pics!!

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Yeah, just applied it to our May 2019 Alaska Cruise, got $500 OBC added.

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Princess must be in the process of loading the sale as you can now see the OBC offers. But just looked at my booked May 25, 2019 Royal Alaska Cruise and our mini suite has gone up $230 per person in price. Hmm, so much for another “not” sale.

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Worked for the Regal March 10, 2019. Booked a mini suite last night.

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There should be no issues on the highway during the time of year your here. Trucks, buses, Rvs etc drive it all the time. Now if you’d been here last week after all the snow we had that might have been a different story!!

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It’s on our May 19 Star Princess from Alaska but when I selected it an error message popped up.

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Just received the no ***** email for our March 2019 cruise on the Royal.

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Alaska News channels reporting the FBI is investigating as it was outside of Alaska jurisdiction but not in international waters.

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We had a real winter this year compared to the previous two years, Lots of deep snow! Mosquitos were already out before we left for Europe, it's going to be a buggy spring and summer!

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Are you trying to use it on line yourself? You have to call to get it applied.

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I have a very port intensive 23 day cruise in the Med and Aegean booked for Fall 2017, which WOULD HAVE resulted in a lot of Princess excursions, but for the upcoming change to the prepaid system.

 

NOW I will be spending my spare time between now and that cruise researching and lining up PRIVATE TOURS for all 18 port days!!

 

Had Princess not opted to go this route, I know that most, if not all, of those days WOULD HAVE been spent on Princess excursions, which would have amounted to close to couple of thousand dollars each for me and my cruise buddy.

 

I'm sure a LOT of people will make this change on who they book tours with, especially once the word gets out among Princess fans. Maybe Princess will find they shot themselves in the foot with this, if the income for tours drops.

 

The suckiest part to me is that all that OBC that I get will no longer be useable for excursions unless I am willing to wait until I get onboard and try to find something of interest from whatever tours are still available by then.

Hi, I'm not so sure it really affect the numbers taking excursions. If you look at other cruise lines that have required prepaying they don't seem to have any problems filling their excursions. I know for our upcoming Cruise in Europe next year we have several DIY tours but the majority are ship excursions. This policy won't change my mind on booking them.

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I wasTalking with DH last night and we had the same discussion. We never take the tips off but he did say that maybe now less extra cash will be given.

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Nope, no Ez air for me. I have read about too many screw ups and inconvenient changes for the travelers to want to trust Princess with my air travel. I like being in control of my own travel.

Finally received our reimbursement today after calling for the 6th time only this morning (hold time 1 hour). I've had the, don't have your paperwork, hmm some kind of hold on the process and two we issued your check but it's been returned to us (address confirmed each time). Today I was told my check had been mailed on the July 1st and I should get it today or Monday. If it wasn't here Monday I was supposed to call back. The date on the check was July 6th, and the postmark date was July 12th. I really hate being lied to which is what has obviously happened here.

As much as we enjoyed the make up cruise with the credit received I don't think we will be sailing on Norwegian again!

I wonder if a post on their Facebook page would help speed things up? It seems to get a little faster reaction sometimes....

This has given me second thoughts as well. Was considering EZair for our European cruise, now probably not!

Hi, I have looking into using EZ air for our cruise in Europe next year. So I have been reading with interest any posts regarding EZ air. On the Princess site it says they have a 24-7 support via their route desk. Was this not the case for your parents? Did they offer any assistance?

Thank-you,

Jenny