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But we are going January 2025! 😔

We appear to be on  British Airways flight out of Gatwick January next year, cant be any worse from what I have read here!

When we got on Caribbean Princess for our Christmas cruise there was no priority boarding, it was a free for all. We are Elite and were quite disappointed by the whole embarkation process.

There are a couple of Chardonnays showing on the menu

My-holiday-menus.pdf (pocruises.com)

What Barbados immigration form?

2 hours ago, rbtan said:

I'm referring to an electric kettle that you plug in..

You mean one of these!

B deck is deck 11, the bigger balconies are C deck 10 but more expensive and sell out fast. Glass fronted yes!

4 hours ago, Steelers36 said:

I highly doubt that.  When did you arrive for check-in?  Had boarding already commenced?  I notice you are from UK, so likely not been to FLL much?

We were picked up by Princess from the Hilton and taken straight to the ship around noon. Boarding had started and there were two queues, one for people with Medallions and another for those without. There was no priority for anyone though those with Medallions got on a lot quicker. It was my 5th time embarking in Fort Lauderdale, the last time was 2019 when we had priority boarding. It was quite disappointing after all these cruises with them (29).

54 minutes ago, PacnGoNow said:

Someone who’s done a Southampton embarkation should be able to answer this for you.

There should be a priority checkin, once you get inside the terminal?

However, some have reported there being one outside.  

I have not embarked out of Southampton this year.

Ive done Southampton, you get to wait in a separate area and are called for boarding after Suites and Elites.

5 hours ago, PacnGoNow said:

No priority “check in”, but there is priority boarding for Elites/Suites and platinum members.

When we boarded Caribbean Princess in December there was no priority for Elite or suites, this was my 29th Princess cruise and the first time I have not had priority boarding for a long time. There were two queues, those with Medallions and those picking them up at the port. Those with Medallions got on a lot quicker than the rest of us.

There was no priority boarding out of Fort Lauderdale for the Christmas cruise

5 hours ago, IndyKid said:

It's been very choppy all week, as I mentioned earlier we skipped our stop at Princess Cays due to the unsafe tendering conditions. This boat has been rockin' and rolling! The temperature has been fine, upper 70s to low 80s.

Thank you,

Hopefully we will get to Princess Cays on Monday

Can you tell me what the weather and seas are like please, it looks a bit choppy on some weather maps.

We board Sunday coming!

If you are going to St Thomas or Puerto Rico you will need an ESTA as they have US customs.

They have several billion in debt to clear before the dividend comes back, could be years still.

Last year we got on at Mayflower terminal as Iona was in Ocean terminal. A pleasant stroll from the Holiday Inn in the sun.

Do they still do the ships tour behind the scenes? We are on the Caribbean Princess in 6 weeks over Christmas!

I got one about a month ago for my Christmas cruise, didnt bid though

6 hours ago, amajaa said:

 

We have found the internet to not be good in the cabin on whatever line we have been on. We were just told to leave the door open a bit the first time and have done that ever since with no problem. Just stick the waste paper basket in the door to stop it shutting or go down to a public area.  I certainly would never have tried to claim money back. 

On the Princess ships they installed wifi repeaters along the cabin corridors, never had a problem in the cabin.

This will be a prelude to getting the equivalent of the Medallion on Princess, Carnival did say it would be rolled out to all brands.

Mine still says it finishes at the end of the month.

Now I know there is a 15 drinks limit on the drinks packages per day, but if you got the Deluxe package which includes doubles would that count as one of your 15 a day or two?

Found a picture of it!

I have done this twice, its not too expensive and nice to have free food and drinks with decent wi-fi. I would certainly do it again

No need to book, we just turned up, quite a high throughput of travellers so no problem with seating

4 hours ago, david63 said:

That has been in place for at least 10 years

This is a new law this year.