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The cabins mid ship on deck 9 that are ON the sun deck will have people walking in front of them and are not on the ocean. The cabins forward and on the other end of the sun deck are right on the ocean 

40 minutes ago, Mary Ann 2 said:

We are in a reserve Cabana room in front of the Cabana deck, so we are also hoping the renders are not correct as we like to look down at the water.

This was very confusing until I looked at that YouTube video and there is a part where the engineer is on the sun deck and you can see the cabana mini suites that are right on the sun deck. They sit back from the ocean This is what we had at first. Also, a friend commented that it looks similar to the Havana deck on Carnival where people can walk in front of your cabin because it doesn’t sit right on the ocean but rather fairly far back because the sun deck is between the mini suites and the ocean. We then had our planner move us to the cabana mini suites on either side of the sun deck. 

15 minutes ago, dides said:

Yes, that was summarised earlier in this thread in post #93  

Sorry. That probably was my post 

9 minutes ago, rmsmith said:

Anyone have any news or speculation on when more pictures and details about the Sun Princess will be announced?  Hoping we get some more updates relatively soon. I know the ship doesn't sail for about 10 months so there is lots of time, but hard not to want to see the build progress and they still have a few areas not formally announced.

There is a video on YouTube from about a month ago where a woman does a tour with the head engineer. It is about 35 minutes long and very detailed 

17 minutes ago, fpsphil said:

We are booked in 09105

Right on the other side. A little concerned about being so far forward so might see if we can change later. Not asking planner yet cause we changed twice already lol!!

23 minutes ago, beg3yrs said:

I suspect the "high glass" is there to reduce the amount of wind across the cabana area.

That makes sense 

28 minutes ago, dides said:

So orange, C1 which have direct access to the Cabana Deck and purple, C2, which should have  balcony glass directly looking down to the sea. But both will have higher glass than standard balcony glass according to the rendering.

 

Yes. That is correct 

27 minutes ago, dides said:

So orange, C1 which have direct access to the Cabana Deck and purple, C2, which should have  balcony glass directly looking down to the sea. But both will have higher glass than standard balcony glass according to the rendering.

 

Yes! 

2 minutes ago, Nemanoxer said:

 

These should be the mini suites dealing with the high glass. All category C1.

 

 

The pink are C2  That is where we are located. The sun deck is at the bottom of the picture which is shown in yellow and are C1. 

 

 

 

5 minutes ago, dides said:

 

The new Sun Princess rendering does seem to show high glass all along deck 9. I think this is where some of the Cabana rooms will be?

 

If you look at

the renderinjg above, the left shows cabana cabins right on the sun deck./  There are also cabana cabins (C2) at on either side of the sun deck but not ON the deck. It is accessed by walking down the hallway   

2 minutes ago, Nemanoxer said:

 

Check out the rendering. Seems to be the bow end of the Cabana Deck. You see the high glass on the right?

 

If I get this and the deck plan for deck 9 right, 09106 should be further forward so you should not be having that stuff in front of your cabin.

Thanks! We had a cabin right there and moved to a cabana cabin outside of the sun deck because we can see that those cabins will have people sitting and walking by right in front of them and the cabana is not right at the ocean but sits back. If we haven a balcony cabin, we want the ocean nright below us

3 hours ago, fpsphil said:

We booked a reserve Cabana as far forward as possible on deck 9. Crossing fingers we don’t have the high glass like is shown in the renders

We are in 09106  What is the high glass? 

I am really surprised to hear of an upgrade so early also. Is that on deck 10? Being above it should not be a problem  We are on deck 9.  WAYYYYYYY in the front of the ship but may try to change it later when cabin numbers are used instead of guarantee.  We actually moved our cabin from those right on the sun deck. Don't want people walking and being in front of our cabin and because our cabana would not be right on the ocean  

Thank you!! Third time on Equinox and I know our cabin is refurbished because we had it before. Love the AbCs so it will be awesome. First world problems lol 

Seems like a number of us moving from X. We are on same sailing on deck 9   Honestly not that excited about my equinox on October 14 but we have non refundable deposit and had so many points from credit card that a lot could be k Ickes off the balance.  Excited about ABC islands though   I am doubtful we will go back to X. 

We are booked for October 19 also and very excited to be in the reserve cabana mini suite. Very curious as to what this looks like. I think I mentioned previously we are on celebrity equinox October 14 of this year. It’s our third time on equinox, and I’m afraid we’re going to be disappointed now that we have sailed on both Regal’ and sky.l we will be back on sky March 2024. We too, are pretty much finished with Celebrity, and have begun using the Princess credit card rather than the Celebrity one.

35 minutes ago, rbtan said:

Hopefully the food will be better. If not for the rather poor quality food we'd cruise Princess much more. Mostly we cruise Oceania for the food & none of the useless stuff(photographers/constant stupid announcements, etc)that one sees on Princess & similar lines.

Food was quite good on Sky in November after having been disappointed on Regal Feb 2022. However, Crown Grille was a disappointment and will not go again. We are used to Blu on Celebrity so hoping the Reserve will be similar

3 minutes ago, rbtan said:

We booked for late Jan.2025. We chose a Cabana Reserve cabin. Interesting layout. You have a cabana room attached to the cabin & can go through a door to your balcony as well.I like the fact that the Reserve class has its own restaurant. This is something that we have wanted for years. Nice to see Princess offering this to those in better accommodations. We hope the food offered will be better than the MDR, considering the higher fee paid for the better cabin.

We are in the same for October 2024. We are actually on the reserve sun deck. Cannot wait to see these cabins as they evolve

13 minutes ago, kywildcatfanone said:

We are too in October.  We went on Infinity last year and it was nice, but one of the oldest ships, and not refurbished.  We booked one FCD and are using it now.  I find all cruise lines have jacked up prices tremendously on any packages they offer, but Celebrity is still higher than Princess.  And their wifi is terrible generally speaking, but I hope with starlink it will be better, but not seeing that on the celebrity forums.  

Last year on Infinity, you could order room service for no charge, and order from the DR menu, which was nice.  We did it twice.  If they have removed those, that will be a huge bummer.  I was hoping Princess would offer that, a great perk that costs them nothing, so yeah, they won't do that.

Totally agree about Celebrity. We are on Equinox for the third time and in the same Aqua class which I know was refurbished when they did a partial refurbishment. Since we booked their prices have ballooned  A mini suite on Princess, which is not available on X, have to skip right from balcony to a suite,  minisuite was comparable to AQ on X or even less.  Supply and demand

2 minutes ago, kywildcatfanone said:

Interesting.  I'm going to have to check on those.  Thanks!

2 minutes ago, kywildcatfanone said:

Interesting.  I'm going to have to check on those.  Thanks!

I got the info from the Celebrity site. We will be on Equinox in Oct and wanted to know what to expect. We are on Equinox because we wanted to do ABC again, we booked before we experienced Princess, had many many points on RCI credit card and had a nonrefundable deposit. After that cruise, we are done with Celebrity for now   

8 minutes ago, kywildcatfanone said:

I wouldn't say "a long way" behind, but it is cheaper than Celebrity in all ways still.  But with all the recent jumps in price on virtually everything, they have certainly learned how to make more by providing nothing more.

And if I'm not wrong, Celebrity only charges for room service from 11pm till 5am or something, so it's not a charge 24 hours.  Unless that has recently changed.

One thing I do like about Celebrity, is you can order from the DR menu and have it delivered.  Would be nice if Princess did the same.

Starting 2023, room service is $9.95 24 hours unless in a suite. Also price of specialty restaurants have increased  I don't think you can order MD menu any more

On 4/25/2023 at 12:04 PM, Mike07 said:

The ship looks beautiful, and I look forward to Princess adding it to its portfolio... but I fear the nickel and dimeing will increase as it has with Celebrity :(.

Celebrity charges for refundable deposit, room service, much more for specialty restaurants, and gratuity on specialty even though gratuity is included in drink packages . Princess is a long way behind this

1 hour ago, HBCcruiser said:

Yes but I can’t enter any info. I just get this:

 

I get that, too  I think everyone  is

41 minutes ago, HBCcruiser said:

THANK YOU! That worked but I get this:

 

 

So do I. Must be sone kind of glitch for sun 

9 minutes ago, HBCcruiser said:

That’s odd. Is it because I have a prior cruise? 

I don't think so because I have a cruise on Sky in March2024. Did you look on your profile at the right bottom? I clicked on that and on the profile page I have two squares with each of my cruises  When I click on each one, my cruises show up   But when I click on Ocean Ready I still get that message that says there seems to be an issue with service for my Sun cruise