rocklinmom

What kind of cabin are you in? Would love feedback on cabin features, location, any noise issues, etc. 

I wonder why it's the Med cruise that's now showing as nonrefundable deposits? Both the Norway and Scandinavian Capitals cruises for summer 2024 are refundable deposits. 

It changed today (June 15th) because I was looking at them yesterday and they were refundable deposits as long as I chose Plus. Today it says nonrefundable deposits for that. I am looking at the 2024 May and June Med sailings on Sun. 

I'm not looking at guarantee cabins, these are regular select your own cabins. 

Wanted to try the Sun next summer but it says that deposits are nonrefundable. I tried under both Standard and Plus and with different cabin types. 

I am looking at summer 2024 cruise options and noticed that depending on the itinerary some deposits are nonrefundable. I have cruised Princess for over 20 years and deposits have always been refundable. Is this a new thing since I cruised last year? For example, I am comparing summer 2024 cruises in Alaska, Norway, and the Med and the Med deposit says nonrefundable. But for Norway and Alaska the deposits are refundable. It doesn't matter if I select Standard or Plus. 

Yes!! Trying to book a cruise and it won't let me log in. Pages take forever to load. This is really frustrating.

So you are not able to dock in Le Havre today (Thursday) due to French port workers striking again? Has there been any mention of any Le Havre passengers who need to disembark or embark? And also any word of possible delayed return to Southampton tomorrow? Thank you for any info 🙂 Hope you feel better soon, sorry you are feeling under the weather. I hope my family members on your cruise don't come back sick. 

Hooray you are on the same cruise as my sister and mother, so I am following along with you 🙂

Hoping embarkation went smoothly today, as it is night there now and I am in California. Bon voyage and thank you for doing this! 

Reading this because my sister and mother are on the cruise after you on April 14th...hoping you docked on time in Southampton today. Any updates about the French strike situation for next week on the 19th and 20th? Wondering if they will have any itinerary changes and if they will make it back to Southampton on time for their flight home next Friday the 21st. They didn't get an international data plan so I can't check with them directly. Any info appreciated! EDITED TO ADD: I just found someone who is posting live from their April 14th cruise, so will follow that as well 🙂

Dinner menu is posted outside the dining rooms in the mornings and (if a sea day) lunch menus are posted outside the buffet in the mornings as well. 

Their statements are way more confusing than they used to be. I did see our refunds in the "Referred to Corporate Finance" sections after trying to decipher them. 

Yes! We just got off the Royal on the Hawaiian cruise and there were no more printed port guides or shorex description packets. I went to the Shorex desk and asked for paper copies of our port guides and they were able to give them to me. I always like having one ashore to find our way around. Our medallion app didn't work for the whole cruise so we couldn't get them that way. And the only way to find out about shore excursions (to add one, make changes, or remind myself what we had booked and what we would be doing, etc.) was to go the the shorex desk and try to work their countertop iPad things - which didn't work either. 

When they move people to a different and bigger cabin, are they paying an upgrade fee? Like if they move from a balcony cabin to a minisuite? I didn't realize they let people move around once onboard unless an illness situation or maintenance issue. 

We stayed at that Sofitel a few years ago and it was fabulous! You will enjoy it. It is a lot of walking within T5 but definitely convenient for flying on BA. We took a taxi from T5 to T3 (to catch our Princess transfer) and it was easy, just ask the Sofitel desk to get a cab. Way easier than trying to figure out the train/tube connection between terminals. 

Pretty sure you can't sleep on your balcony LOL

If you book a Princess transfer to LHR you would probably be put on their first bus based on that early flight time. They probably won't let you book though with that tight of a window to get there. You would be actually disembarking at around 7am so you could wait at the doors to walk off first, and try to grab the first taxi at Southampton and ask him to haul A$# to LHR (with a big tip). 

My understanding is that any Elite member gets the ten percent discount OBC. So if your cabin mate is also Elite they would also get it. 

40 minutes ago, Cruise Raider said:

We’ve cruised out of San Francisco several times in the last few months.  It’s been excellent every single time for those embarkations.  We arrived at Pier 27 about 11:15 last time and went right through security, then check in and were onboard by 11:30 - 11:35.  There were approx 2500 passengers onboard.  
 

Now, if for some strange reason your ship is embarking at Pier 35, that can be a nightmare.  But, I’m sure the Royal will get preference for Pier 27 if there is another ship in port.  
 

Thank you! I know one of the MDR's is always open for lunch on embarkation day, do you happen to recall which one it was on Royal and what time it ended? I think around 1pm? 

One more question if you don't mind...did they do Hawaiian themed activities on the ship on sea days? And if so what were they? 

Thank you! Will be strange to pack shorts and T-shirts in December. And good to know plenty of taxi's at the Honolulu port, we need one to get to our helicopter flight. 

Thank you for posting this! We are headed to Hawaii on the Royal in 2 weeks. Was it warm there? And were the taxi's available at the Honolulu port (Pier 2)? 

Thank you for posting the menus and food pics!! 

We swap ours for bottled waters. I have to drink a lot every day and we take them with us on excursions. I don't know if your Plus package includes bottled waters? 

1 hour ago, Shelly97060 said:

Here’s a list of the increases planned:

 

Wow thanks for the heads up on these increases! I was thinking of doing another cruise next summer and these would definitely affect us if I don't book by the 13th.