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I also found on the NPS website, if you book a transit bus tour, you can show your national park pass at the bus depot when you check in, and not have to pay the $15 park fee.  The park fee is not automatically charged when you book a transit bus like it is with a tour bus like the TWT or NHT.

On 7/10/2019 at 11:24 PM, dickinson said:

I read on here somewhere within the past month or two about someone who got a partial refund because they had the Senior National Park Pass.  We are now here at the Princess Denali Lodge and went on the tour today.  Before leaving we checked at the front desk and  were told we had to take the hotel shuttle to the park "bus Depot" stop.  After our tour we had time to do it.  Well worth it because we received a refund of $30!  We just showed our park pass along with our paper that showed we were signed up for the tour.  They said we could have gone before or after the tour.

 

I wanted to post this because it is not something I have read on here except that one time so there may be many people who are not aware.

Did you receive the partial refund at the bus depot or at Princess Denali Lodge?

As of March, the corkage fee remained at $15 per bottle.  And yes, they can be taken to the MDR.  You will have a sticker on the bottle indicating the corkage has been paid.

We like Alfredo’s and the beautiful Piazza.  Great live music throughout the ship and a great buffet selection.  We have only had staterooms on the hump and aft, so we can’t complain about small balconies.

We don’t like the small bathrooms in the regular balcony staterooms and sure miss not having a couch.  We also don’t like the cutbacks we seen over the past 3 years.  We will be back on Royal Princess in August.

We were in R735 on Royal Princess in March 2018.  The balcony is at least 100 sq ft and you do get engine soot at times.  The balcony is uncovered.

DW and I are on the March 7, 2020 sailing as well.  We have also booked b2b for twenty days in March 2021.

We booked two 10 day b2b cruises on Sky Princess for March 2021.  We were able to book the same stateroom for both cruises.  

Looks like you can search by destination now.  I looked up a Sky Princess cruise we want to take in March 2021 and they are listed.  Can’t book them yet but at least I can see them.  

Thanks for the information.  We have our first OM cruise coming up in August on Royal Princess.

They were introducing this wine list toward the end of our second ten days on Crown Princess last month.

Very nice review. Glad you had a good time.  Better late than never for Valentine’s Day dinner.  

Nice review Chris.  You take very good pictures.  Thanks.

Royal Princess 2016.  We have sailed on her three times.  Getting ready to spend twenty days on Crown Princess.

We were in stateroom R735 in March 2018, so next door to the stateroom you have booked. The balcony was at least 100 sq ft. and a great view of the wake.  There was kind of a lame loveseat in the stateroom but overall plenty of room.  However, the bathroom is small, no larger than a regular balcony stateroom.  We more than likely would not book another aft stateroom on a Royal class ship.  We really like the mini suites on the hump in the Royal class ships.

I like the Mexican/southwest section.  Lots of choices and the quacamole is excellent. 

Very nice cruise review.  Really good pictures also.  Glad you and your family had what sounds like a great cruise.

Norris, you have whetted my appetite for Cuba.  I need to pour a glass of Cuban rum and lite a Cuban Cohiba and sit back and enjoy life!  I can’t wait to continue on your journey.

Can’t wait to follow along Norris.

Mike

Can’t wait to read your review Norris.  Hope you and Carole had a great cruise.

Mike

You just can’t hide stupid!

Floridalover,

i would send email to Princess Customer Relations and plead your case.  Be polite, factual and give examples if you have them.  

They gave us credit for the value of the six punches and the unused card.

Pia1913, 

No, we will not use them in March.  But Princess made things right.  

We had two coffee cards we purchased onboard Royal Princess in March of 2018 that expired on 12/31/2018.  Had I noticed an expiration date on the cards when we bought them, I would have asked for my money back. My bad!  We still had six punches on one card and all fifteen on the other card.

 I sent email to Princess Customer Relations last month expressing my displeasure on the expiring cards.  I received a call this week from Princess and I am satisfied with the resolution.  

The current value of the two coffee cards we have that will expire today is $49.90.  These were just purchased in March 2018 on Royal.  Had I noticed there were expiration dates on them, I would have asked for my money back. I would be happy with $2 per punch, at least we would have $42.00 in obc.