Now on Emerald Princess B2B

[MRSBITS]

Hi Nova Mimi,

I am very excited to hear your reviews on the Emerald Princess. We are diamond members on RCCL; however, our last cruise to the Mediterranean left us disappointed! We are in the midst of planning our next cruise to the Baltic Sea, and I've found one on the Emerald Princess. We love aft cabins, and would love to hear any further accolades for this ship.:)

[MRSBITS]

Hi Nova Mimi,

My husband reminded me to ask about enclosed pools; since the time and region we will be sailing is not exactly sunshine weather. Does the Emerald Princess have a solarium pool?:)

[jennifers490]

Hi Nova Mimi,

My husband reminded me to ask about enclosed pools; since the time and region we will be sailing is not exactly sunshine weather. Does the Emerald Princess have a solarium pool?:)

 

it does not have any enclosed pools

[zacc]

Right now it's Bert Stratton.

 

Thank you for the answer. Not want I wanted to hear however:(

[jennifers490]

Thank you for the answer. Not want I wanted to hear however:(

 

maybe he won't be on in sept? i am with you, i never got him but a lot of people really love him.....i am on the cruise before yours and will update from the ship :)

[NoVa Mimi]

Mrsbits, I can tell you the experience is like night and day. We prefer Princess over RCCL and really look forward to booking another. It was our first time in an aft cabin and we loved that as well. I have not had a chance to do a review yet, but will try this weekend. If you have any specific questions, please let me know. Also, our last cruise with RCCL left us very disappointed, hence the switch.

[NoVa Mimi]

Mrsbits, I can tell you the experience is like night and day. We prefer Princess over RCCL and really look forward to booking another. It was our first time in an aft cabin and we loved that as well. I have not had a chance to do a review yet, but will try this weekend. If you have any specific questions, please let me know. Also, our last cruise with RCCL left us very disappointed, hence the switch.

[Mysteriousbug]

Hi Tami,

 

Hope you are enjoying your time on the Emerald. I will be sailing on August 1st with my husband. I am wondering how much it costs to rent a tux for formal night. If you have a minute and can check I would appreciate it.:)

 

Thanks a million!!

 

Mary

 

Hi Mary!

I will be Sailing August 1st also!!

[zacc]

maybe he won't be on in sept? i am with you, i never got him but a lot of people really love him.....i am on the cruise before yours and will update from the ship :)

 

I would really appreciate that update....would be nice to know in advance if I need to plan on the Adagio for my late evening martini!! Must admit I don't believe he is a musican....he is a piano player who leads sing alongs. Guess you either like him or you don't!

[Cruise Raider]

You can book the ultimate balcony dinner... Don't have to change your clothes, although they do take your picture! Of course, it brings a tab of $50.00 pp, but from what I understand, it is a fabulous dinner, served to you course by course...

 

I have heard of this but never taken advantage of it. Might have to do it this time around, though....I will be celebrating my 50th. We were lucky enough to do this on a Celebrity cruise quite some time ago and there was no charge....very special. I will be deciding between this and Sabatini's for my big night. I hear both offer a lot of food and all very yummy. Guess I will wait and see what the weather is like. thanks for the advice

[Cruise Raider]

Sometimes one has to be creative when ordering the mixed drink @ $2.99.

 

DW and I, when at home, drink what we call an Easy Old Fashion, Bourbon, 7UP and lots of bitters. If you order an Old Fashion you will pay regular price @ $5.50, but if order bourbon and 7 UP with bitters it's $2.99. Another example, unless your really picky, don"t order Bicardi and coke, order rum and coke. You may get Bicardi anyway. I think you get the idea.

 

Of course this information is coming from a guy who will drink "fuel oil and water".:D

 

thanks for the info...I like having a cocktail after dinner, just not so much the $10 price tag that goes with them. These will be right up my alley -- get my drink and spend the savings in the casino....ha!

[luvs2travl]

Glad to hear everything is going well. We will be on the Emerald in October for a 20-day b-2-b in the Caribbean.

 

BTW - Have you been asked to sign any waivers regarding the releasing of any/all liability for personal safety while on Princess-sponsored shore excursions? We currently have a thread going about a cruiser who was asked to sign such a waiver with no witnesses, no notariziation - nothing - just a Waiver of Liability for the tour company. This was for a shore excurison in St. Thomas, the Champagne Half Day Sail Cruise, I believe. Just curious - I have never heard of a cruise line asking anyone to do this.

[caribill]

Have you been asked to sign any waivers regarding the releasing of any/all liability for personal safety while on Princess-sponsored shore excursions? We currently have a thread going about a cruiser who was asked to sign such a waiver with no witnesses, no notariziation - nothing - just a Waiver of Liability for the tour company. This was for a shore excurison in St. Thomas, the Champagne Half Day Sail Cruise, I believe. Just curious - I have never heard of a cruise line asking anyone to do this.

 

 

The cruise line is not doing the asking, it is the tour operator.

 

And, yes, we have had to sign these waivers on sime ship's shore excursions from Princess and from RCCL.

[luvs2travl]

The cruise line is not doing the asking, it is the tour operator.

 

And, yes, we have had to sign these waivers on sime ship's shore excursions from Princess and from RCCL.

 

This is from the OP's original posting!

 

"Do to the crime in St Thomas recently, the night before our St. John Half Day Champagne Cruise Princess delivered a Waiver of Liability to our stateroom for us to sign releasing all obligation by the tour operator."

 

Unless I am misinterpreting the OP's statement, which I could be, this was a Princess-sponsored shore excursion, and the waiver was not delivered on the tour itself, but the night before by Princess personnel. Yes, it was the at the behest of the tour operator. I understand that. But since Princess is sponsoring the excursion and sharing in the proceeds, I would think that they would have some stake in this liability waiver as well. Otherwise, why not just give it to the people once they were at the excursion departure point rather than having it delivered to their cabin?

 

My concern/question is, has anyone ever been asked by Princess (while on board & before any tour) to sign such a waiver, had one delivered to their cabin for signature, or had one offered for signature while awaiting departure on board? You say that you have and that is what we were interested in knowing. In our 20+ cruises, we have not.

 

Was such a waiver of liability mentioned in the shore excursion description on the Princess website, or mentioned by anyone at the shore excursion desk before purchasing? Again, I have not seen anything like this, as it certainly would have made us think twice before booking the excursion.

 

I mean - really, a nice Half Day Champagne Cruise on a ship's sponsored excursion? I would not think such a low-risk activity would warrant a liability release form in and of itself, but more-over is due to the terrible and unfortunate shooting incident of the 14-year old child on a Carnival cruise while on an independent tour in St. Thomas.

 

Has anyone taken the above-mentioned excursion on previous trips to St. Thomas and also been asked to sign a waiver? We have taken tram/canopy rides, white-water rafting trips, flight-seeing trips, deep-sea fishing trips, catamaran excursions, etc, (all ship's sponsored tours), and not once have we been asked to sign a waiver of liability.

 

Just curious, that's all.....:confused:

[caribill]

This is from the OP's original posting!

 

"Do to the crime in St Thomas recently, the night before our St. John Half Day Champagne Cruise Princess delivered a Waiver of Liability to our stateroom for us to sign releasing all obligation by the tour operator."

 

I do not feel that this waiver has nothing to do with crime on the island, but that the poster assumed it was connected. Others have posted in this thread that this excursion required a waiver in the past.

 

 

My concern/question is, has anyone ever been asked by Princess (while on board & before any tour) to sign such a waiver, had one delivered to their cabin for signature, or had one offered for signature while awaiting departure on board? You say that you have and that is what we were interested in knowing. The waivers we have signed have not been given to us by Princess, but either by the tour operator or the attraction operator.

 

 

see above in red

[NoVa Mimi]

We have always had to sign a waiver for any ship sponsored excursion. We were in St. Thomas days after the tragedy and there were no additional waivers that had to be completed, just the routine waivers from the various tour operators releasing them from all liability. The only difference regarding our stop at St. Thomas was that we received a letter from the Captain in our Princess Patter the evening prior to our arrival to St. Thomas explaining the tragedy and that Princess would be canceling all excursions to the Coki Point area.

[IDRATHERBCRUISN]

Hi Mary!

I will be Sailing August 1st also!!

 

 

Hi,

 

Have you joined the roll call? Looks like some fun fellow passengers. What are your plans for shore excursions?:)

 

M