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Exciting and new!
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3:00 set sail 2:00 all onboard 10:30-11:00 embarkation begins. Watching Sky Princess on Port Everglades webcam right now.
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Sun Princess Inaugural 2/8/24 cruise canceled
cruisinsince75 replied to Host CJSKIDS's topic in Princess Cruises
I feel for everyone booked on the SP on the inaugural cruise as well as subsequent cruises. You plan that far in advance and two weeks before you find out it isn't happening. We have had two cruises canceled before, but at least they were several months out. -
My wife and I both have mobility issues. I can manage a few stairs and can get in and out of a tender, but my wife cannot without a lot of assistance. It is extremely stressful for her, therefore we forego tender ports and just consider it as a day to enjoy the ship without the crowds. I also agree with Rick, that it would be a real safety hazard to attempt to carry an individual onto a tender.
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The Cape.
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One time we cut getting back to the ship pretty close. We were on the Ruby Princess in Livorno. Our private tour got us and three other couples back about 5 minutes before the all onboard time. One guy kept saying they're going to leave us, they're going to leave us. I said calm down Ted. We are not going to be left and we won't be the last ones onboard. As we are getting close to the ship, we see no other people. We get to the gangway, they checked of our names and pulled the gangway up right after we boarded.
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I'm not so vain, but I do have a scarf that is apricot. Does that count? 😁
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Travel Mug and specialty coffees (Drip / Americano)
cruisinsince75 replied to calvindoth's topic in Princess Cruises
Ahh! Vino Sfuso! That was great! Also, walking the Rue Cler in Paris, picking up a bottle of wine, some baguettes, ham, and cheese and walking to the park in Paris below the twinkling lights of the Eifel Tower at sunset! Much better than dining at an overcrowded and overpriced restaurant on the Champs Elysees! Now getting back to coffee... I prefer mine not to be watered down swill from syrup. -
Will see how this works on our November cruise. This will be our first mass market cruise in many years. Driving to Galveston rather than flying is a real plus. We too are like the OP. Morning breakfast in stateroom ordered off the card. We write in our preferences on the card. Even on smaller ships like Seabourn they sometimes get it wrong. We have the premier package and are sailing in an accessible mini-suite. I wonder if I can still get eggs benedict or a Denver omelette delivered to our stateroom.
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It was a company sponsored cruise to reward salespeople that made their goals. She was a co-worker that had a reputation of always doing things her way. I was not her boss, but was in charge of booking three private tours on the cruise. She and two of her friends during our stop in Pisa, were busy shopping and stopped to get gelato. Once back on board, i asked her what time it was and what time she was told to be back on the bus. She answered both correctly, but said time got away from them. I told her in front of the entire group, that if it happened again on any of the other tours, that we would leave them. Which we did in Rome after waiting a little over 10 minutes. Amazingly, she and her friends got back in plenty of time on our tour in Malta. As a side note. She got fired a week after that for fudging some numbers.
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Happened to us on a couple of private tours I had arranged. Same group of people on our Pisa/Florence tour and again on our Rome tour the next day. It is called no respect for others. We missed our walking tour in Florence because they got back to our bus so late. I warned them the first time in Pisa. However, they did it again in Rome. We left them outside of St. Peters and they had to find their own way back to the ship.
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We also sail at 3:00 out of Galveston on the Regal. Originally, it was 4:00, but got moved up to 3:00. That is a really quick turnaround.
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Thank you! We are on a 14 day TA crossing, so it seems to be worth the money. I will reach out to HAL.
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How much does Club Orange cost and how do you add, if already booked?
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LIVE from Regal NYE Cruise 27DEC-07JAN
cruisinsince75 replied to bethfelk's topic in Princess Cruises
Enjoyed following your LIVE FROM posts. Glad to see they got embarkation and disembarkation procedures smoothed out. Or as someone else posted recently calling it the dismemberment procedure. 🤪 -
Refare of upcoming fully paid cruise
cruisinsince75 replied to CruiserJBM's topic in Princess Cruises
Worked for you but not for me. Mines November 2024. Only minimum deposit. Tried chat, tried calling, and tried cruise consultant. All got the same answer. New bookings only. The cruise consultant was the best. Issue was we booked an accessible mini. It was fared as a standard mini because none were available in standard mini. When they tried to refare the price actually went up. I was able to rebook at reduced fare, then canceled the previous booking. Didn't make sense and still doesn't. But easier than figuring out the new And old Princess apps! 🤣 -
What is the Princess WC doing about the suez canal situation?
cruisinsince75 replied to Eli_6's topic in Princess Cruises
This whole thing about the Houthi attacks in the Red Sea brings back memories of the Somali pirate attacks back in the mid 2000's. I remember the 2005 attack on the Seabourn Pride. We had been on the sister ship, the Legend. On our Azamara Quest cruise our CD, Tony Markey recalled that day as CD on that ship. What the captain and his crew did to keep them from boarding the ship was truly remarkable. Using water cannons and ear piercing technology to drive them away. https://www.google.com/search?q=pirates+attack+cruise+ship+2005&sca_esv=25e166837710fba2&sca_upv=1&rlz=1C1GCEA_enUS1047US1047&sxsrf=ACQVn08zmDW2en7azij8npjG1GwopdXQBg%3A1704844838420&ei=Jt6dZbKmGfOUwbkP3tSJwA4&ved=0ahUKEwiy0fb3wdGDAxVzSjABHV5qAugQ4dUDCBA&uact=5&oq=pirates+attack+cruise+ship+2005&gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiH3BpcmF0ZXMgYXR0YWNrIGNydWlzZSBzaGlwIDIwMDUyBRAhGKABMgUQIRigAUjkJlDDCljyF3ABeAGQAQCYAX2gAbQDqgEDMi4yuAEDyAEA-AEBwgIKEAAYRxjWBBiwA8ICChAjGIAEGIoFGCfCAgUQABiABMICCxAAGIAEGIoFGIYD4gMEGAAgQYgGAZAGCA&sclient=gws-wiz-serp#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:39757744,vid:1SsY7nEuJDs,st:0 -
This looks like a great option for us as well. We are doing a TA from Rome to FLL and plan on spending a week driving through Umbria and Tuscany before boarding the ship in Civitavecchia. We both are disabled and require the use of mobility scooters. We can fit both scooters in an SUV with the seats folded down and still have room for a small suitcase. We can have our larger suitcases sent Luggage Forward without the hassle of trying to handle them. Thanks!
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Diamond Princess Disabled Balcony Cabins
cruisinsince75 replied to Odin's Raven's topic in Princess Cruises
I stand corrected, It appears that the Grand Class and the Gem Class ships DO NOT have the second fold down rail.