We boarded our last Princess Cruise a year ago today....

[CineGraphic]

Little did we know when we boarded the Crown a year ago today, that it would be a long time before we sail again.

 

I miss decorating our cabin door and the early morning chair hogs

 

I miss the fabulous crew and meeting stray dogs on the beach

 

I miss the view while walking back to the ship, knowing that air-conditioned comfort is just a few thousand steps away.

 

And I miss late night entertainment & cocktails, without worrying about how to get home safely.

 

 

[GoHuskies!]

I know.  We were scheduled for a cruise to Hawaii from LA next week, and of course here we are on land in Arizona!  At least we are not snowed in.

 

[JF - retired RRT]

19 minutes ago, CineGraphic said:

I miss decorating our cabin door and the early morning chair hogs

 

Love those door signs. Very inventive.

PS: not the Happy Birthday sign. 😉

[cruiser113]

A year  ago  today.....we  were doing  a turn around  day on  the  Sky.  Beautiful  ship.

[CineGraphic]

5 minutes ago, JF - retired RRT said:

Love those door signs. Very inventive.

 

Thanks, but I can't take credit for them, we bought them on Etsy.com

https://etsy.me/2NuLLpe

 

[skynight]

We were on that cruise and the one before b2b. It didn't really sink in how wide spread the pandemic had become until we were waiting at the airport the next morning. Did not enjoy the flight home.

[Steelers36]

8 hours ago, CineGraphic said:

Little did we know when we boarded the Crown a year ago today, that it would be a long time before we sail again.

 

I miss decorating our cabin door and the early morning chair hogs

 

 

I miss the fabulous crew and meeting stray dogs on the beach

 

 

I miss the view while walking back to the ship, knowing that air-conditioned comfort is just a few thousand steps away.

 

 

And I miss late night entertainment & cocktails, without worrying about how to get home safely.

 

 

 

 

 

Our best friends were on same voyage as first of a B2B2B and, as such, were on the final cruise.  They remember well the folks at each island stop knowing it was the last call and wishing everyone well. 

 

[loge23]

We were halfway through our 28 day RT LA-Hawaii-Tahiti.

Valentine's Day was fun onboard.

Hard to fathom - a full year of this.

[Thrak]

We boarded our last cruise on November 4, 2019 in Barcelona. We never dreamed we wouldn't be cruising after that.

[BigWaveDave87]

It was a year ago on February 6th that we did our last cruise aboard the Royal Princess. (posted this anniversary on our Roll Call)

Little did we know that it would be the last cruise for some time. Our DD had concerns about people having Covid-19 being it was on the news that the Diamond Princess was anchored at the Yakohama Port and the passenger's could not disembark.  She and her friend joined us and stayed in thier own balcony cabin next to ours. The DD was washing her hands all the time and not wanting to touch anything. At the time we didn't have full understanding of how the virus was being transmitted.

(and I came out of retirement in March to work in a store as an essential worker)

We so look forward to the day we can take to the sea again!

 

Happy Trails 🥃

[dog]

My last cruise was in the beautiful, new Sky Princess in December 2019. Next one will be on the Sky again in March 2022. 
Thanks to OP for sharing photos. 

[MickeyandLV]

We started our last cruise 1 year ago tomorrow (2/16/2020).  Regal Princess to Caribbean.  We had booked that cruise because we were in Florida for a family trip to Walt Disney World the week before.  We also booked that cruise so we would have enough cruises to be Elite for our British Isles cruise in September 2020.  Wow what a year it has been.  We are so glad that we had that cruise before everything stopped. 

[KeepCalmBearOn]

One year ago today we were on our third sea day out of LA, headed to Hilo HI on the Star Princess.

[Mud_Shark]

What do you mean "one year ago"?  We have been in virus lockdown for going on 5 years (or so it seems).  Longest year of my life.

 

Don

[Lucky TGO]

Hi to all my Cruise Critic friends,

Last year at this time I was on the Crown Princess for 20 days 😁 and it will be the first time in over 20 years that I’m not on a Princess Cruise at is time 😡

The Captain of The Rowboat,

Tony

 

[voljeep]

9 hours ago, dog said:

My last cruise was in the beautiful, new Sky Princess in December 2019. Next one will be on the Sky again in March 2022. 
Thanks to OP for sharing photos. 

same for us ... we were on V2.0 'inaugural'

[nimiq]

21 hours ago, CineGraphic said:

 

Thanks, but I can't take credit for them, we bought them on Etsy.com

https://etsy.me/2NuLLpe

 

Wow love them ....this will definitely a site that I will visit for next cruise.

thanks

Sea Ya 

Eric 

[nimiq]

Little did we know that boarding the Sea Princess out of Brisbane a year ago, would be one of this ship last journey and one of ours for a long time. 
Here are a few nice pictures of the Sea Princess. 
 

I miss cruising and meeting all these nice cruisers 😉

Be safe all soon it will be better.

Sea Ya 

Eric

[RLK33853]

Yes who knew last February what was about to happen to not only the cruise industry but everything else as well? 

 

This time last year we were just about to board the Coral.  Once aboard, crew members started talking about their friends on the Diamond and what was happening half a world away.  South American ports seemed oblivious other than we had to go through a temperature check when our flight arrived in Chile.

 

After a great cruise, we disembarked on March 5th.  We then spent a fabulous week in Peru, but by the time we caught our flight out of Lima things were going downhill fast.  We flew out of Lima the day before Peru closed their airports.  All the while we were thinking about the passengers who were likely stranded on the Coral, the ship that we had just got off of the week before.

 

We started cruising in the early 90's and over the years cruises became our go to getaways.  We certainly want to return but not until vaccines are received and things are back to some sort of normal (where we can interact with others, including the crew).

 

In the interim, stay safe.

[Daniel A]

We got off Regal on February 9, 2020.  After we got home we learned of the devastation to come.  Stay safe everybody, there is a light at the end of the tunnel. 

[Thrak]

4 hours ago, nimiq said:

Little did we know that boarding the Sea Princess out of Brisbane a year ago, would be one of this ship last journey and one of ours for a long time. 

 

Our first cruise ever was in a tiny inside cabin way forward on Sea Princess. We sailed in 323 and it ws only 135 sq. ft. I had to go outside just to change my mind! My wife had to team up with our oldest son to nag me into taking that first cruise. I absolutely knew I would hate everything about it. When we got off after 10 days I wanted to get right back on the ship. We absolutely loved the cruise and the ship. That voyage changed our lives.

[ringers0815]

One year ago we were on The Sun Princess in the middle of a 46 days cruise from Perth Australia across the Indian Ocean to South Africa. It was a wonderful cruise. 

[maggie777]

We were also on the Sun ,46 days RT Perth and b2b 11 day Perth to Sydney. The last part ended early and we returned home to the world as we know it today. The ship , crew and itinerary were wonderful. 

[ams1130]

We got off the Royal Princess March 7th, and no one got on after us. Other than handwashing being monitored at the buffet areas, we didn't understand anything major was going on. Until we got to LAX and saw the masks. We aren't like many of you in that we don't cruise often, but as someone previously mentioned, this has been the longest decade of our lives. 

[ringers0815]

1 hour ago, maggie777 said:

We were also on the Sun ,46 days RT Perth and b2b 11 day Perth to Sydney. The last part ended early and we returned home to the world as we know it today. The ship , crew and itinerary were wonderful. 

We were also booked on the Perth to Sydney cruise after the South Africa trip but decided to cancel and get off in Perth when we saw how the situation with the virus was evolving. We took advantage of the revised cancellation policy that Princess issued on March 5th (I think) and rebooked all our travel arrangements while we were in the middle of the Indian Ocean. 

Edited February 17, 2021 by ringers0815
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