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The standard cocktails are about £7.50 now (e.g. those on the classic package like Pina Colada, Passion Fruit Martini, Cosmo, Mai Tai, Negroni, Margarita, Vanilla Salted Caramel Espresso Martini, Pimms, Strawberry Daiquiri, pink Gin Spritz) I think these were £7.15 last May, so probably the ones you are referring to.

Yes correct, the daily gratuities are included in the Princess Plus package, so you don’t need to pay extra for them.

We stopped at some of these places last year on an NCL U.K./Iceland cruise and are due on a Princess one around U.K. later this summer. I’m not sure you will miss much not having a balcony as they are generally not the most scenic of ports in the world. 😊 also, living in the U.K. in respect to the weather, it may be a bit warmer, but in all honesty for places like Ireland and Scotland you’re more likely to below below 70F than above it in most ports. Also if you don’t have rain 1-2 days you would also have been extremely lucky. It’s hard to be certain, but best to start on that basis 😊 happy to answer any questions you may have if I can.

Sorry if it’s a really stupid question, but my wife would like to try steamers, but I have a seafood intolerance. I presume there would be no other options for me if she wanted to eat there?

im just generally interested but was trying to read back and understand the main areas of your disappointment, I have seen about the fact you listed you holiday itinerary up front and was disappointed when items were seemingly forgotten. Was that the basis of the dissatisfaction?

I wanted to put my personal opinion from our Butler tipping, (should comment that as someone from the U.K.our tipping culture is different) We were on Getaway for 16 nights, and our butler was very friendly. We used him maybe 6 mornings for breakfast delivery split throughout the trip. Apart from that only other request was for some milk from the fridge a couple of times. about a week in after say 3 deliveries I gave him $30 and then at the end we gave him $70. my opinion is that that was an appropriate sum of money for a good butler who did the simple sporadic things we asked for. People are different and that’s fine, but honestly I find some of the amounts being mentioned quite shocking 😊

I think this is because it’s in a sailing from Southampton in the U.K. Because in U.K. laws, prices must be shown inclusive of mandatory service charge. So the tax doesn’t include this part of the price which is about 18% on RC. I.e. take the service charge off and it would be about $22, hence $2.20 tax

I had it, was really tasty 😊

I had it, was really tasty 😊

Tonight’s special

Good question, I’ve just popped down to check out the MDR dinner menu and yes appears it is a dish the main dining room have tonight 😊

So to update in this topic, we are now halfway through our 16 night cruise and noticed that they are advertising a special in the Haven for Dinner tonight.

Yeah we’ve been getting on fine with it! 2/3 glass with ice then milk then add short shots from a 2 capsules into a coffee cup with a bit or sugar/sweetener- we put a bit of ice in to stop it getting too hot, then poor over the ice and milk. 😊

We are on 16 night out of Southampton in Europe and there are no comedians onboard. i think the issue is that comedy doesn’t tend to travel well, and what one country finds funny isn’t always the same for other nationalities. Seems they look to avoid comedy when sailing outside of home markets for that reason.