Large tour meeting place - Emerald

[catsforkids]

What lounges and bars are reserved for Princess tours on the Emerald?

 

We have a group of 40 plus for a tour in Spain and Vines may be too small of an area for us. Any suggestions?

 

Thanks!

[Pam in CA]

If you're organizing a private tour in a tender port, contact the Shore Excursion Desk and let them know. If it's not a tender port, a good place to meet is the casino.

[CruisenOne]

What lounges and bars are reserved for Princess tours on the Emerald?

 

We have a group of 40 plus for a tour in Spain and Vines may be too small of an area for us. Any suggestions?

 

Thanks!

 

A word of caution.

 

DO NOT exchange any money in view of Ship's Officers.

 

Princess does not take too kindly on Private Tours in competition with Ship's Tours.

[OCruisers]

A word of caution.

 

DO NOT exchange any money in view of Ship's Officers.

 

Princess does not take too kindly on Private Tours in competition with Ship's Tours.

 

This is very true.

An officer saw money being collected for a private tour at a M&G and put a stop to it immediately.

LuLu

[caribill]

What lounges and bars are reserved for Princess tours on the Emerald?

 

 

Most Princess tours in the AM will meet in the Princess Theater. If there are a large number of such tours, Explorers Lounge and Club Fusion might be used also.

 

If this is a tender port, the Michelangelo dining room would likely be used for issuing tender tickets for those not on Princess tours.

[OCruisers]

If it is an excursion through Princess, where to meet will be listed on your shore excursion tickets. :)

LuLu

Edited December 20, 2014 by OCruisers

[catsforkids]

Oh yes,I do know better than exchange money on the ship in view of Princess people. I agree it is not a good practice

[Colo Cruiser]

What lounges and bars are reserved for Princess tours on the Emerald?

 

We have a group of 40 plus for a tour in Spain and Vines may be too small of an area for us. Any suggestions?

 

Thanks!

 

 

Best to check with passenger services, several venues may be in use and you won't know until you board.

[caribill]

Best to check with passenger services, several venues may be in use and you won't know until you board.

 

The tour desk might know, but I would not expect the passenger services desk to know.

[Colo Cruiser]

The tour desk might know, but I would not expect the passenger services desk to know.

 

 

 

Its a start.

[pablo222]

What lounges and bars are reserved for Princess tours on the Emerald?

 

If the ship is alongside, as Pam said -- casino. (unless audit)

 

If it's a tender port, I think it would be a lot easier to have everyone

meet on land.

 

Otherwise, if you need to collect tender tickets -- would you wait

for everyone in the designated meeting place, and then try and

get tickets as a group?

[catsforkids]

The group I am talking about is a private CC group so we need to figure out where to meet before we board. Can 40 people fit in Vines (yes, some standing) before an excursion on the Emerald?

[skynight]

The group I am talking about is a private CC group so we need to figure out where to meet before we board. Can 40 people fit in Vines (yes, some standing) before an excursion on the Emerald?

 

Believe your roll call is the best place to discuss this. Yes, Vines is large enough to handle 40, but it is crowded in the piazza area with people walking through, people eating and having coffee, and people just mulling around. Assuming your port is not a tender port then I agree with others that the Casino is a better location. If you have a tender port, you have logistics issues with 40 people.

 

Princess shore excursions gather in the theater. I have never seen Princess use the Casino for this purpose, so it should be empty. If a tender port then tender tickets are normally given out in one of the DR's and sometimes I have seen them use Explorer's.

[Pam in CA]

I have never seen Princess use the Casino for this purpose, so it should be empty.

I have and it worked fine. Just have people meet on the port side since the other side is sometimes used to lead Princess tours from the Princess theater to mid-ship disembarkation.

[skynight]

I have and it worked fine.

 

You have seen Princess shore excursions meet in the casino? I never have seen this. The only times I have seen Princess use the casino for a gathering location is muster drill and early walk off.

[catsforkids]

I think we will use the casino. I have done a Princess excursion where we met in the casino but that was on the Royal and that is a whole different game on that ship!

 

Thanks for everyone's input :)

[Colo Cruiser]

I agree, best to meet dockside.

[bcnvcanada]

We were on the Emerald in July and our group on a private tour

in Russia meet at the Vines. We had over 60 in our group.

It worked out fine.

[Pam in CA]

You have seen Princess shore excursions meet in the casino? I never have seen this. The only times I have seen Princess use the casino for a gathering location is muster drill and early walk off.

No. What I meant is that I've been on large independent tour groups that met in the casino.

[Cruisin' Chick]

If the ship is alongside, as Pam said -- casino. (unless audit)

 

If it's a tender port, I think it would be a lot easier to have everyone

meet on land.

 

Otherwise, if you need to collect tender tickets -- would you wait

for everyone in the designated meeting place, and then try and

get tickets as a group?

 

To clarify, each passenger would need to get their own tender ticket. So you might want to advise the others in your group to go to the dining room as soon as possible to get a ticket and then arrange for everyone to meet on the dock near the tendering area (maybe have a sign to hold up with the name of your group/excursion). It could be possible that not everyone on your group will be able to go on the same tender.

[catsforkids]

It is not a tender port. It is Cadiz, Spain. I should have clarified that.

 

I will post the choices: casino, Vines-although some people may have to stand:eek: or dockside and see what the consensus is

 

Thanks all!

Edited December 26, 2014 by catsforkids

[Times Prince]

I'm for meeting dockside.

 

For an out of the box answer, why not pick a spot up on the Lido deck (e.g. lobby by forward elevator)? Then when your group goes down in elevators they can fill the elevators and get off at Deck 4 (or whatever is in use for leaving the ship).