Live From Emerald Princess TA Crossing

[Shogun]

Hi All

Well weather has been amazing calm seas, hit 27 degrees the other day.

Have had two on-board fires first in the incinerator fire team dealt with quickly captain advised what had happened and all was well, then a galley fire which was dealt with before fire crew arrived.

Casino very nasty no wins however Mrs Shogun winning enough to cover my losses.

Finding a seat can be difficult ic very busy,

Made it to one of the 4 CHEF'S TABLES excellent evening

Overall food has been very good just the odd item a bit off.

Biggest issue for many passengers is the lack of wine on board.

Others have raised issues that a lot of entertainment is passenger driven meaning less professional performance s

 

Chat more when l can

Yours Shogun

[Shogun]

Hi All

Cruise Director has said next year job will change with CD, becoming more passenger focus and a new person taking on the entertainment management, did not give much info but said to watch HAL

 

Yours Shogun

[SwissDave]

Hi Shogun

Good to hear you seem to be having a nice time.

Wine situation seems to be a bigger overall issue, just off the Island a couple of weeks ago and the wine and champagne situation was dire.

We ended up at one point with no champagne, no sauvignon blanc, no pinot grigio, several reds also ran out.

 

It was blamed on Italian customs holding a container or 2 back but i'm not so sure as it happened earlier in the year as well on the CB which was being stocked in the UK for the cruises i was on.

Princess need to take a long hard look at their provisioning process as it had got slowly worse over the last couple of years.

 

Hope the weather stays good for you.

 

And a big hello to the missus.

Dave

[Shogun]

Hi Dave

Nice to hear from you, lots of moans that it's the good stuff they have run out off.

 

Just now sitting at muts calm seas full Sun about 27; cold beer and anniversary pizza bbq chicken, lots of little old ladies almost choked on there lunch as advert for ****** just got broadcast.

 

Yours Shogun

[Ron the Rev]

Hi Shogun

Good to hear you seem to be having a nice time.

Wine situation seems to be a bigger overall issue, just off the Island a couple of weeks ago and the wine and champagne situation was dire.

We ended up at one point with no champagne, no sauvignon blanc, no pinot grigio, several reds also ran out.

 

It was blamed on Italian customs holding a container or 2 back but i'm not so sure as it happened earlier in the year as well on the CB which was being stocked in the UK for the cruises i was on.

Princess need to take a long hard look at their provisioning process as it had got slowly worse over the last couple of years.

 

Hope the weather stays good for you.

 

And a big hello to the missus.

Dave

Bring back Camus or I might regress.:D

[Shogun]

Hi All

Another fire call last night, this time a fan on a fridge in the galley was producing smoke, Captain has been very good at giving details of every incident this time they pulled the plug out, a few passengers complaining about all the alarms and messages.

[Shogun]

Hi All

 

Last sea day, seas calm sky overcast, going on tour in morning to fill a few hours, Overall very lazy cruise, Mrs shogun likes being referred too as the young ones, now TAs attract an older cruiser, but this appears to attract even older group as such ship has been very quite at night

 

Yours Shogun

[hokiefans]

Hi All

Biggest issue for many passengers is the lack of wine on board.

 

Chat more when l can

Yours Shogun

 

Dear Shogun,

 

Well! You can't blame us for that:rolleyes: but I know our other "Barcelona 8" friends are on board.....

 

denise

[Shogun]

Hi All

As cruise ends the sunshine has gone grey skies and rain, Captain says thunderstorms for disembarkcation

 

Yours Shogun

[Nezmo]

Hi All

Cruise Director has said next year job will change with CD, becoming more passenger focus and a new person taking on the entertainment management, did not give much info but said to watch HAL

 

Yours Shogun

From what I've read, Carnival Cruise Line made this change a while back so looks like it's making it's way out to other Carnival Corporation lines.

[Colo Cruiser]

From what I've read, Carnival Cruise Line made this change a while back so looks like it's making it's way out to other Carnival Corporation lines.

 

Its called the Entertainment Director and its already being put in place on a couple of Princess ships recently.

Edited October 16, 2015 by Colo Cruiser

[caribill]

Its called the Entertainment Director and its already being put in place on a couple of Princess ships recently.

 

Does the E.D. report to the C.D.?

[Sanibel*Gal]

I checked the web cam and see that the Emerald is safe in port. Very excited because today it's "Our turn" to sail her first cruise of her Caribbean season.:D

 

Bon Voyage!

Andrea

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[Shogun]

Hi All

 

Couple of things that I might have missed being chatted about,

 

Deluxe Breakfast in the Crown grill,

 

Elite turning internet minutes in for obc.

 

 

yours Shogun

[seamwoman]

Please explain more about breakfast and Internet minutes! Karen

[Shogun]

Hi All

 

Now back home at 2.oopm after leaving Emerald at 8.00am yesterday

 

two very happy four legged friends.

 

The whole point of this cruise was to do nothing relax and get away from work,

 

As will be back at it tomorrow, so for us it achieved this.

 

However a few things took the shine of the cruise,

 

The only elite benefit we took full use off was mini bar, no tendering this cruise,

 

did not need checkin benefit as arrived very late however over half the ship in

 

this bracket normal checkin was quicker,and a number of elites have told me

 

this is the route they took to board the ship.

 

Food was overall very good, however a few dishes had been cut back especially

 

on some desserts, were in the past the dish would be full this time it was only

 

three quarters, now Princess has a problem here, if the reason is to save

 

money then it is not working as waiters are telling you they will bring two as

 

one is not enough, or at main course bringing an extra plate or two for table to

 

share.

 

As to my cruise buddies overall a very jolly bunch, but a few things while in the

 

elevator please do not play with your false teeth, or the lady with the itch well no point in going into details.

 

But more importantly health, last year I lost a week of my vacation due to

 

catching Ruby bug that lasted months.

 

Well this cruise had by the end a number of coughs and sneezes ,

 

but I met a number of folks complaining about being in the theatre and being

 

sprayed by the person behind, one couple got up and left.

 

So on my last morning to wake up feeling a bit rough to end the day with a

 

mega head ache, bleeding from both sides of my nose and feeling sick should

 

not have been a shock to me. Not sure what I have caught will see what today

 

brings.

 

So should the ship be quarantining passengers with bad coughs, colds to their

 

cabins, or banning them for large group events.

 

Chat more latter

 

 

yours Shogun

[Shogun]

Hi

 

The deluxe breakfast could be booked at the Crown grill, it was on one of those

 

cards you get left in your cabin at night, did not look closely at it but looked like

 

the same as balcony dinning same price, champagne etc

 

Also met elite members who before boarding had the internet package removed

 

and turned into obc, I assume they contacted Princess before boarding to request this,

 

yours Shogun

[Shogun]

Hi All

 

Quick up date on health now have the flu, not sure why noise was bleeding,

 

but also have itchy rash on leg, now picked up a couple bites while on board

 

but forget to say while at Crown grill our friend got a bite on her foot, due to size

 

and double puncture say says it was a spider, it was also reported that crew were

 

putting white powder around corners of things.

 

yours Shogun

[azdmelani]

Hi All

 

Quick up date on health now have the flu, not sure why noise was bleeding,

 

but also have itchy rash on leg, now picked up a couple bites while on board

 

but forget to say while at Crown grill our friend got a bite on her foot, due to size

 

and double puncture say says it was a spider, it was also reported that crew were

 

putting white powder around corners of things.

 

yours Shogun

 

Feel better!

[Shogun]

Hi All

 

I notice that when we disembarked there was an ambulance, it did not have lights going or doors open, was wondering if we lost anyone while doing the crossing.

 

As did not hear of any medical issues requiring an ambulance.

 

 

yours Shogun