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Formal night in Crown Grill, shorts, tee shirts and flip flops.  It’s been a while since I sailed Princess,  but what has happened to this cruise line??

Formal night in Crown Grill, shorts, tee shirts and flip flops.  It’s been a while since I sailed Princess,  but what has happened to this cruise line??

Discovery is sailing with ~3900 passengers as told by the crew in the photo dept

Ship is full.  And it shows.  I’ve never been on this class of ship before, but wow,  it’s crowded

She’s a lovely ship,  beautiful decor and great crew.  She’s just too crowded.  Lines for everything, gym,  lunch, etc.  I’d love to sail this ship,  but with far less passengers. 

Same here,  booked on the medallion app with two included dinners and both were charged.  No option to use credit.  Will address onboard.  I have a similar package on HAL and they deducted the included dinners when the reservations were made.

Any update on what was done to Westerdam during drydock now that she is sailing again?

23 hours ago, FlyerTalker said:

 

If I had "valued clients" that wanted to buy a product, trust me, I'd be selling it to them.

 

For if you don't, they will soon become someone else's valued client.

Not really,  I’m not an agent but had to tell a group of friends they wouldn’t be getting their money back last year after I vouched for crystal.    I’ll wait to hear from all you opinionated people how the new crystal is before they get more of my cash. An idiot and their money is soon parted….

22 hours ago, AtA said:

So they're willing to cut off their noses to spite their faces? (My mother's saying.)

Nope,  just don’t want to be left holding the bag again with valued clients 

After what agents went through with Crystal I dont blame them.  I too stuck my head in the sand and kept booking crystal well into the pandemic.  I’ll wait to see what transpires once this new product launches 

Having lost thousands by the collapse of crystal I am happy to come back to Seabourn.  Two cruises booked for 2023.  I haven’t sailed since the original triplets,  but excited to try the new ships!  Always had a great time on Seabourn 

Hard pass from everyone I sailed with.  Also,  my agent won’t touch crystal right now. 

Holland America announced Canada cancellations today, I am sure Cunard won't be far behind

Booked on an Oct 2021 cruise from Quebec, assume its cancelled.  Has anyone received any notice from Cunard for these 2021 Canada sailings?

7 minutes ago, rols said:

Can anyone explain the rationale behind limiting cruises to 7 days? You put a group of people on a ship and if 1 is sick it's going to spread, ok I get that. How does changing that group every 7 days reduce that risk? Seems to be it would increase the likelihood of eventually getting an outbreak, more total people, more chances one is ill despite the pre-boarding testing. Conversely if you board a group of people and nobody is sick, keeping them all together for as long as possible sounds like a good idea. 

 

I would understand not selling pieces of cruises so you don't have guests arriving and leaving at different points thus increasing the mix, but having one group on for 2 weeks sounds like a better plan than having 2 groups on for 1 week each. 

 

 

Sure,  for most the 7 days are over and you’re off the ship before your display symptoms.  Then the cruise line doesn’t have to say you caught it on the ship

I used to always sail solo on the old triplets and always had a great time.  Invitations for dinner were plentiful and it was up to me how to dine.   Since the triplets left the fleet I moved over to Crystal, which was always wonderful (never really encountered any snooty passengers).   Today I booked the Encore in July (fingers crossed Seabourn is sailing by then).   Why the switch?, not happy with the way Crystal handled their shutdown, poor communication and many are still waiting for refunds from April (I had to jump through hoops with my credit card after waiting months for any refund or news from Crystal).  Also, I'm unclear if Crystal will make it out of this, so back to Seabourn for now...

on our last cruise on the Spirit we didn't learn about it being available till half way through the cruise (staff was very tight lipped about it being available unlike Seabourn) and then its was made into a big deal about asking supervisors, etc.    We had it at dinner, but it was made out to be such a hassle when it didn't need to be.

2 hours ago, billbunger said:

I stand by my original statement. 

Maybe an illuminated beer sign is more your taste?

its a scam as all I wanted to do was move my deposit to a 2021 booking, it's still not done a month later yet Cunard wants another deposit to keep my booking active.   I am not about to keep loaning Cunard money.   I don't care about 25% on a cruise that's already 50% higher in price than the one I booked for 2020.    

So if your voyage is cancelled and you want the 25% FCC you can't book a new reservation without giving another deposit.  Not about to give Cunard more cash for another booking.

We had our Quebec to NY cruise cancelled, moved the booking to the same cruise for Oct 2021.  Same cabin, same category:  2020:  $1,600pp including gratuities and $150 OBC, 2021:  $2,200pp no gratuities, $177 OBC

Looks like our September cruise from Quebec is done for....Hopefully Cunard will not make us wait till the July final payment to pull the plug

We returned to Silversea on the Spirit last year after many enjoyable sailings on the Cloud, Wind, Shadow and Whisper.  We also sailed to Norway in QG on QM2 two years ago.  The new dining program on silversea is a deal breaker for us.  A handful of restaurants with the same menu every night.  Quite boring if you can’t utilize the outdoor options.  Try having the same meal half the time and being told no more than yes for asking for items off the menu.  
 

Dining in the QG was lovely,  excellent food,  really anything you wanted on or off the menu.

i doubt I will return the SS,  I’d rather sail seabourn,  Cunard or crystal 

Well I can tell you how they are dealing with TA's on these motor yacht cancellations is even worse than how they are dealing with passengers.   I honestly won't be recommending WS to my clients.  Too many lines out there that offer great luxury products. 

The news is correct, its asbestos related.  On my call with Windstar today there was very little new news other than "read the email".   I feel sorry for this independent cruise line, but took risky to book 2020 on any of these motor ships.   Oh, and their response on reimbursing for insurance was "too bad", luckily the insurance carrier is open to moving or refunding based on the cancellation