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Dragonqueen

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Thanks Shogun for all the excellent info.,

Has the shooting range happened? I have not come across any mention of it?

 

Back to the cabanas, I would have been willing to pay $3,000 in my younger days if Duo Push were also included !!!!:D;):rolleyes:

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Astro Flyer

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It would be nice to have someone start a thread with JUST cabin pictures from the Royal. It would help if people would put the cabin number in the title so you can see the cabin # at a glance.

That's a great idea & I'll 'second that motion'! ;)

 

However since I don't sail the Royal until October I don't have any photos to share.

 

Thanks to all of those posting about their experiences...there's a lot of interest in learning more about the Royal Princess. :)

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Shogun

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Hi All Part three

Horizon Court

Wow, what a change, what an improvement, still not perfect, but so much better than other ships, so what’s wrong, well in part its size and the choice, you see, you enter, have a look around, and make your selection, then as you walk back to your seat, some one walks past with a plate of something else even more mouth watering than your selection, your first reaction is I did not see that, where was it, not sure what Princess can do about this may be put up some signs telling you where to find the options or menu boards out side so you know to keep looking to find what’s on offer.

Upper Decks,

These did not appear to full, but we were sailing well below full, so deck space in the Caribbean could be an issue we will have to wait for reports, lots of great new seating, those soft seating appeared to get grabbed very quickly and folks stayed and by afternoon a few were sleeping. Nice to have more tables, however the upper decks biggest and best feature is the night time light changes,

Sea View Walk and the Bar

Nice feature great at night time, however I do feel sorry for the folks in the balcony’s right below it, the main thing is this feature does give a bit of charter to the ship, with out it, she would be quite boring to look at.

Club 6

Its location works well, is a good spot during the day, however is heavily booked for private party’s and a wide range of other groups, the back lit menus are great fun, as a night club, well its down to the folks on the ship to give it a heart and soul, on my cruise it was just a nice early morning place for a drink.

In Room TVs

These are a great leap forward however again they could be improved and may be will ,in the future, features like booking tours, room service ordering, etc would be welcomed by most, but just now picture quality and sound were better than expected. OK mine did not work for a few days and it took almost to last night to get everything on it working.

In Room Fridge

A first we had an issue we had an oven not a fridge, however we worked out after a few days what the problem was, and its quite simple, its possible to close the cabinet door with out the fridge door being fully closed, the result is warm air gets into the fridge so it works harder to cool its self generating more heat meaning… well you see the issue,

Solution close the fridge door and check it before closing the cabinet door’

Air Con

This was a bit hit and miss, not worried by this as there where plenty engineers to work on it, it was quite noticeable on our cabin crawl that you went from cool to hot areas and back to cool again, as to our own cabin we found it warm at all times, it may be that the ship settings were done for Southampton and would be reset for the Med.

Room Service

As good as ever you call they say 20 mins and within ten they are at your door,

Breakfast in Room

The new hot bacon and egg muffins are great and always arrived hot, folks need to try them, the coffee appeared a little better than from past cruises, but would still not class it as quality but is drinkable.

Princess Live

This works well as a small entertainment venue you are very close to the action, are the TV cameras required not sure, did not watch anything on my TV but then again it was not working right, the big plus is this area frees up Vista for bigger productions, the area out side it has nice seating and a good bar with real coffee, the blue lighting is not to bright and is a welcome change from the other areas of the ship either side of it,

MDR

We ate in the fixed dining to the aft of the ship, standard Princess access issues, the design of this MDR was done by a different designer than the other ones and it shows, lots of bench seating with bright red circles as the design, lot of black slatted screens which will just trap dust, also lots of odd corners which gives the feeling of private dining but not an MDR feeling, our table of eight was two of four with four seating on the bench seat with the ends blocked by a window and the other a screen, this means waiter has to lean over table to serve corner person, food was fine served quickly and hot, however there was around 28 seats in our section of which 6 were being used. As to requests no problem was able to order a main dish with a side order off, or would you like two main dishes,

Crew

Hand picked from across the fleet half will go to the Regal, so if you want an excellent crew go on the Royal soon, over all they were the happiest crew I have ever met, all went that like bit extra, now it might have been they were just happy to see passengers and to start getting tips after many weeks of hard work, we spotted so many and they spotted us from past cruises, the ones that recalled the cruises and the few our names blew us away how do they do it,

Tendering

We missed our tender port so can not report but the tenders look a lot better than passed models and have their own thrusters which is really cool innovation.

More to follow

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#1winelover

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Shogun! You are an amazing person!! Quite the eye for detail and a big heart for sharing! I feel ALMOST like I've already been on my sailing, even tho it doesn't come until the Maiden Caribbean on Oct. 29th. If I can accomplish as much and see half as much in my 12 day b2b as you did on yours, I'll be happy! Thanks so much!!

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Hi Shogun... thanks for all you've done for us with your posts and pics. Really appreciated.

 

Something I did notice on your last post was this.....

 

Club 6

Its location works well, is a good spot during the day, however is heavily booked for private party’s and a wide range of other groups, the back lit menus are great fun, as a night club, well its down to the folks on the ship to give it a heart and soul, on my cruise it was just a nice early morning place for a drink.

 

To bed by 3, up early for a drink??? ;) :D Just kidding. Hugs (as always) to little Shogun. Take care.

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Shogun

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Hi All and For Northender

Part 4

Sports

The sports area, appears little thought has gone into this area, I think Princess needs to give sports to a new person design these actives. The standard basketball court with so many other sports markings that you can not work out what the lines mean, the surface could be better, just seems so dead, the walls could have a covering and goal posts or targets painted onto them, the putting green, it does not work, if I was Princess I would take one of those odd side areas next to the teens and put in an 18 hole interesting putting course, the other odd area of deck could be a green for bowls or other putting type games.

The out door gym stuff appears quite good but some pics of how to use it, how many times, burns so many calories would be good.

The walking track is OK but if I was Princess I would have made a raised section walking round and around a flat track is a bit boring,

The laser shooting, and mock clay pigeon was on at times we were busy so never got to see them, which is not a problem just catch them on my next cruise on the Royal.

Wedding Chapel

Not as nice as other ships shape is wrong a wedding chapel needs to be long and thin to look like an isle this one is short and wide, did not see it in use on our cruise.

Concierge Lounge

Again did not see this in use, it was staffed at certain times of the day, had coffee, TVs snacks from what I could see there was a bloke in a white jacket who I assume was a steward and you serve you. Access is by a swipe assume suite passenger cards would open the locks. Did try my card but a red light just came on.

Celebrations

Nice idea, girl in the shop was very nice, but never saw any one buy anything, for me just to much chocolate of the same type, think Princess needs to expand the idea more, make it the place to order special cakes, like real birthday cakes etc, put proper cards on sale birthday happy anniversary etc , the flower shop being their is ok but some more stuff o buy would help Love Boat Teddy Bears, any one.

Shops

Appeared to have a lot more space but not stock ,compared to other Princess ships shops which are normaly over flowing with product, this might improve could just be first cruise thing, There was lots on inaugural season stuff, but no maiden stuff, even the normal Princess stock of branded t shirts etc was missing.

Night Time

The Royal comes alive at night with colour, most will have seen the pics of the pool deck areas, these look really cool , makes such a great place just to sit out, the sea walk looks great at night, with the grill serving late into the night and things like IC being 24 hrs more people appear to be out and about at two and three in the morning compared to other cruises I have done. Casino was busy very late.

Dress Code

Formal nights were almost 100% black tie and tux, even normal nights quite a few folks in suites and ties, even ladies in hats, can not recall last time I have seen this in the MDR, no shorts or flip flops in the MDR.

Royal Afternoon High Tea

This is held between three and four in the soft seating raised area in the atrium again appeared to be a good turn out.

Ice Cream Bar

This seems to work well and did a good business with many folks sampling it how many were repeat customers I can not say, expect in hot weather cruises it will do very well.

Vines

The biggest one I have seen and may be the least used, I thought Vines was a bit dark, not welcoming enough, staff appeared friendly but on most cruises Vines is my second home on this cruise not one glass. I just did feel that I wanted to sit there, may be to far away from all the action.

More to follow

Yours Shogun

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Hi Some More Pics

 

 

 

 

 

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Oh dear, I hope there will always supervision in this area!!! You can just see a small child climbing on the railing and then.............

Who came up with this idea?? Plus you can not see through the fence wall for people walking by.

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Hi Some More Pics

 

 

 

 

 

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Oh dear, I hope there will always supervision in this area!!! You can just see a small child climbing on the railing and then.............

Who came up with this idea?? Plus you can not see through the fence wall for people walking by.

 

 

 

OMG :eek:

This is awful !!!

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chamima

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Shogun, I assume this photo was taken through the floor of the Seawalk. What is the eye-shaped brown area on the bottom? I can't figure this one out. Thanks!

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Jeannie

I think it's the roof of Facets.

BTW - isn't Facets a jewelry store? I don't understand having that lovely seating area outside of a jewelry store. Outside of a bar would make more sense. :confused:

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Hi Some More Pics

 

 

 

 

 

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Oh dear, I hope there will always supervision in this area!!! You can just see a small child climbing on the railing and then.............

Who came up with this idea?? Plus you can not see through the fence wall for people walking by.

 

I was thinking the exact same thing when I saw this picture! Why would you put that right next to the rail!

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Shogun, I assume this photo was taken through the floor of the Seawalk. What is the eye-shaped brown area on the bottom? I can't figure this one out. Thanks!

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I believe its a outside area attached to Crooners..just a guess.

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Astro Flyer

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Shogun...the description of 'Celebrations' reminds me of the vastly underutilized 'Vines Shop' which has been removed on some ships for great places like Alfredo's Pizzeria instead.

 

Those Vines Shops evolved from only wine items to things like chocolate & coffee items which still resulted in it looking like a ghost town.

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Pia1913

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Re: coffee being real, stated by Swiss Dave and someone else. The proof is in the taste; specifically mine. Me, the one who travels with a coffeemaker and Via and who will never drink Princess swill. I will taste and report, but you'll have to wait for my LIVE. ;):D

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