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If I had to pay for 7 loads of laundry it would cost a bundle or I could fight for washing machines on board. Sometimes the laundry rooms feel like battlegrounds. We also like the mini bar when I feel like a soda or beer without leaving the cabin or having to wait for room service or the app

There are no arrival times just a start and end time for embarkation

Laundry is still the biggest elite benefit especially on long cruises. On a 14-21 day cruise we pack as if it is a 7 day cruise and send out laundry every 3 days

So I can pack just a few bottles instead of like 30 + small bottles. We are doing a b2b in a suite so 4 mini bars. Also some of the bottles can be glass so breakage is possible

Change out the liquors you don’t drink for something you do and pour what you don’t use into empty water bottles and pack carefully yo take home. We change out everything vodka and then take the so so vodka home to use in Bloody Mary drinks

Never heard of a different app and if you are already on board why wouldn’t you just call the dine line or go to the venue to make the reservation

We bring screen shots of the summary mostly to make sure our OBC matches what we see on the app

I think there is a large portion of cruisers who do not drink or carry a phone all the time who would really not get full value with a package. In the bars most people who congregate there have packages but that is a minority of passengers. We sail on longer cruises for the most part and many people do not lay out $60 per day per person over 21 days or so. Also on cruises with lots of families and kids less people seem to have them

Starting with Royal class ships Princess moved the casino bar out of the casino itself. On the Royal it is in Take 5 a non smoking area next to the casino with a door between them

We just buy bottles at dinner with the 25% discount for dinners. Some Prosecco late morning and maybe plus wines in the casino. Vines still has an excellent Zin within the i plus package

All you need is the medallion

There are so many ports on those cruises in the US that you may be able to just ignore WiFi on ship

Size of cabin plus a sofa. If you go reserve mini you would be in reserve dining area with little or no wait for meals

Are you referring to the plus package that includes WiFi, tips and drinks ? That is quite a deal in our experience

Never trust the on board future cruise department They will tell you anything to make a sale

We were able to do that in Vines on the Crown and the Ruby. We sail for 14 days on the Grand July / August. We will see what happens

It really depends on the steward. Some do them once in awhile, some every night and some never

It the case in the bars and casino bottles only. Why are making assumptions regarding the MDR ? Do you go back to the galley often ?

You pack 3 weeks worth of clothes ? We pack 7 days no matter how long the cruise. Send out laundry about every 3-4 days

was this a 7 day cruise or a longer one ? We usually take longer cruises and do not have an issue. The only short ones we take are Alaska b2b cruises which tend to have tons of families who don’t want to eat dinner as late as 8:00

The laundry option is great for us since we only take 7 day cruises if they are at least a b2b. For non drinkers the minibar can be turned into all waters, or sodas

On most Princess cruises we see the most demand for all types of dining from 5:00 to 6:00. If you prefer to eat later like we do there is much less demand. For the MDR we usually see lines starting by 4:30. Also the more families the less demand most people are not going to get premier for kids or lay out $35 + for a specialty dinner

Not in my experience we have been able to book specialty dinners while on board and sometimes just walking in after 7:30. This was true on every cruise we have taken since the restart. No real difference since premier started. We see more plus packages than premiers.

But once they are elite and if they are light drinkers they would get a mini bar or in a suite 2 minibars

You do know this is about a theater presentation and not nature ?