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Wonder if anybody can help? We’re travelling tomorrow on Enchanted ans both Me and Mum separately purchased some onboard credits through our cruise personalisers and we’ve just gone to print out our travel summary and noticed they have been assigned to me. Will we be able to get the ones she paid for transferred to her account onboard or do I have to call princess and get them transferred before we leave? Could it be because we’re both registered to use the same payment card? Many thanks never had this problem happen before.

The area on aft on deck 7 (usually starboard) has always been a smoking area for everyone when I’ve been onboard any royal class ship its not just for crew there’s no crew smoking area on deck 9. We had a cabin above the area on deck 8 and had no problems

Couple of corrections @Ombud Costa neoRomantica has now been scrapped by Celestyal, also Pacific Dawn has not been scrapped and is now sailing for Ambassador as the Ambience her sister Pacific Jewel was scrapped after a very brief period as the Karnika. Ambassador have also brought the AidaMira (not on your list) direct from Aida to be named Ambition and start sailing next year.

Biggest problem the Aida ships have is that they are built for such a unique product that they’re not suitable for most ‘traditional’ cruise lines that would consider something her size, such as no sit down main dinning rooms they’re all buffet style as such they have much smaller galleys and have a very low crew compliment for their sizes, so most lines would need to find space to increase both of those things to offer a more standard experience onboard. My bet is either Celestyal or Margaritaville she could suit both of their very casual laid back port intensive short cruises.

A couple of moths ago we returned from a back to back (14 + 18nights) on a different line from the UK and the medical officer onboard is an old family friend who gave me some figures of onboard covid numbers. The first 14 day cruise was the ships first since masking and covid protocols had been officially dropped and there was no mandatory onboard testing (unless self reported as symptomatic) I would say only 5-10% wore masks properly onboard during the trip and generally acted as though covid no longer existed. At the end-of that trip 17% of the passengers had reported symptoms and tested postive so combining that along with the asymptotic and those who didn't report their symptoms for fear of isolation the realistic figure is more likely to be in the 20-25% region. The second cruise was longer at 18nights there were also more passengers onboard and although it was still not a requirement to mask officers and crew were actively recommending it when moving around and using lifts etc… meaning that I would guess aprox 85-90% passengers wore them around the ship unless eating/drinking, we also had ffp2 masks left in our cabin for use incase we didnt bring any due to no requirements. On this trip we also had 2 mandatory covid tests due to the requirements of ports we were docking at one on day 3 and one on day 15 (so we expected higher figures on this trip due to the tests picking up those who were asymptomatic.) but by the end only just under 6% had tested positive. This clearly said to me that although masking certainly will never fully stop it spreading it is certainly capable of limiting a mass outbreak onboard that the industries reputation cannot afford.

Currently onboard QE and our second formal was Masquerade 2 days ago, even though this theme had disappeared from our cruise planner a week before we left.