SapphireHoneymoon

We're booked for the Nov. 20th Golden Princess out of San Pedro. I have some questions/concerns I was hoping you fine people of CC could answer/confirm.

 

Question 1, 2, 3: We received 200 OBC for this booking and 25 OBC for using my FCC. If I recall correctly, I have to use all of this because none of it is refundable to me or lose it...

 

May I use it to pay the gratuity? May I use it on alcohol? May I use it for the casino?

 

Question 4: On our first cruise we walked off by ourselves with our luggage...

 

Are we allowed to walk on with our luggage or do I have to hand it over to the porters? Last time our luggage took longer than we would've liked to arrive.

 

Question 5, 6: How does the Crown Grill work...

 

Is it just like the MDRs but higher quality food? Is it worth the extra charge?

 

Question 7, 8: MUTS...

 

Do they show Thursday Night Football on MUTS? Is Sailaway in the same area as MUTS or a different area?

 

Question 9: MDR...

 

Is breakfast and lunch served everyday or only specific days? I know breakfast is available to Suite passengers in Sabitini's I believe, but we are in a guaranteed balcony.

 

Last questions: Alfredo's...

 

Why isn't it on the Golden? We absolutely loved it on the Sapphire. Correct me if I'm wrong.

 

 

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I noticed a decrease in service in two areas in my previous two Princess cruises (Crown and Star):

 

 

 

Horizon Court: The tables weren't set and you had to go pick up your omelet rather than having it delivered to you.

 

 

 

MUTS: No cookies, milk, hot chocolate, or popcorn was brought to us.

 

 

 

I had come to expect these things from my Sapphire and two Golden experiences.

 

 

We were on the Sapphire last December for our first cruise. We experienced no long wait for ATD and we went all different times. MUTS also had cookies and milk. Don't remember popcorn though.

 

My wife ordered an omelette and it was delivered to our table. Sure hope service hasn't changed so drastically in less than a year.

 

 

 

 

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I was able to use my FCC on a cruise booked just a little over two weeks out. Online it gives you the option almost at the very end.

 

 

Sent using the Cruis

Oh no. We're taking a cruise on Nov. 20.

 

 

Sent using the Cruis

We did it on our Sapphire aft balcony. It was great. No dress code. We were bundled up in sweaters because it was chilly out. Only thing we didn't like about the dinner is we had to hunt down our photo when the photographer said she would bring it to us the next day.

The paper tags worked just fine. I stapled them just as instructed and it made it through to our room just fine. A little crumpled but no rips or tears.

On the Sapphire, our closet had plenty of hangars. Didn't count them exactly, but would guesstimate at least 15-20 hangars if not more.

We were in the cruise right before you, 12/15-12/22 and it was smooth for almost all the cruise except for Thursday night and all of Friday. Seemed like there was an earthquake in our room every 15-20 minutes or so. We were all the way aft on Emerald deck.

Worked fine for me about a half hour ago.

Just bought a doorstop and tried it on my tile floor, it was BARELY a deterrent. Hopefully it works better on the ship's carpet floors.

Sushi! My fiancée will be so happy.

 

Those steaks looked delicious. However, I sure do hope the pizza tastes better than it looked, and by seeing that you only got one slice, I don't think you would say so.

 

What is that dish with the spiral of purple onion? Looks like rolled up salmon sashimi. Not sure though. I lost count of how many of those plates you had.

 

Where was most of this dining done at? All over the ship? Or mostly just the MDR?

Great, 14 inches wide seems tiny.

Yes you can take your luggage on board yourself . Keep in mind that the bags have to be able to pass thru the security scanner. That means they have to conform to airline size carry on bags in all dimensions except length.

Do you know the dimensions by any chance?

Sailing in exactly a week on the Sapphire out of San Pedro and are super excited.

 

One question, when we arrive at the pier, do we HAVE to give our luggage to the porters? Just like you can self disembark, can you also self embark? I rather deal with our luggage ourselves and have it immediately in our room instead of wondering when it is arriving.

 

Thanks in advance for your replies.

I thought it was a given to always use the privacy tag, but why did he need to deliver the Patter in the cabin?

Because he's a pervert and wanted to "accidentally" catch them doing the horizontal shuffle?

Don't know about the Sapphire, but on the Grand it is just the menu items. And they do not have pepperoni.

Does Lido Deck and room service pizza have same restrictions?

I've come to the conclusion the cabin stewards have seen just about everything.

Doesn't make it ok.

We also had a similar issue last month on the Golden. Our Steward entered our room at 7am. The deadbolt was in place and the do not disturb sign was out. Quite dismaying to us and we thought an isolated incident. Obviously this is not the case.

But how is that possible?! You had your DO NOT DISTURB SIGN out! Excuse my sarcasm, but many people in this thread swear that is the endallbeall needed so no one enters the room.

I have a door stopper that I travel with at all times so that no one can enter my room when I am in my room/cabin for the night.

Have you gotten any use out of it?

[quote name='kruisey']In case of a real EM if only Supervisors have a master key?
Having to waste precious time finding that supervisor in a EM situation.
If there was a fire and a person was deaf and did not hear the alarm.?[/QUOTE]

I don't want to hijack this thread with this debate.

[url]http://boards.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?t=1949124[/url]

Read this thread for MANY great alternatives to stewards having a master key card.

I don't see what the big issue is, put the tag on the door, and all is right with the steward leaving you alone.:D

 

You obviously haven't read many of the replies in this thread contradicting you.

This was brought up in another thread:

Take away the master keys from stewards that can bypass deadbolts. They do not need them.

So room service pizza is $3 or $3.50? And the fee covers as many pizzas as you want or it's per pizza?

What about the room service pizza?

I pray you never create a "Code Alpha" situation. The delay while they break down your door could mean life or death.

 

[bTW I'm not condoning the Princess policy here. It does seem that passengers should be able to have a reasonable expectation of privacy. But achieving the way you suggest could put you in harm's way.]

 

Please explain what kind of emergency I would face by having my door secure. Like someone already stated, I would not put the security bar or wedge if I was in there by myself. If something happened to me, my soon to be wife could open the door and vice-versa. A fire or something of that sort, I expect to be awaken by the alarm.