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Shame it’s using a much older ship. Hopefully if it proves to be a success, Princess will use a newer ship in subsequent years.

Whichever cruises eventually go to Israel, I guarantee that I won’t be on them. Plan to spend my holiday money elsewhere, thank you.

2 hours ago, dides said:

Here is the alcoholic Spellbound drinks menu. (Credit: EatSleepCruise)

 

 

 

These custom cocktails are all well and good if they have the ingredients to make them. They probably will for the first few months before the cocktails become a shadow of what they were. This has been my experience based on Good Spirits when it was first introduced on Sky Princess.

1 minute ago, mrell345 said:

Is there a Platinum lounge ?

They are usually the same place.

Hurrah! The Sun Princess thread was getting a bit cluttered so will look forward to reading about your adventures instead.

3 hours ago, MsSoCalCruiser said:

Thank you! Sometimes breakfast for dinner is perfect. 

According to the CEO of Kellogg’s, breakfast cereal is the perfect alternative to have for dinner in these cash strapped times 🤣

Anyone feel that the double height glass wall on the ‘promenade’ deck is to stop people ‘falling’ overboard? With all other decks with the lower rail, there appears to be another deck below so if someone were to fall, this would be onto the deck rather than the water.

6 hours ago, dides said:

Video showing more of the Signature Lounge and Signature Restaurant - and a quick glimpse of a long MDR line at 7:30pm

 

 

Thanks for sharing. Still no confirmation on whether the menu is the same. I did see a Filet Mignon on the one that was posted higher up in the thread. The breakfast menu certainly looked extensive too so I’m holding out hope that it is better at least.

Official Princess video just posted on YouTube.

https://youtu.be/4bp_4zTeOpc?si=2T8GudB92lbmgCGU

This account on Instagram is posting some nice photos.

https://www.instagram.com/insta.sai?igsh=MXBqN2YybDdzbGxydw==

Pictures starting to appear on Facebook. So far a Penthouse Suite (with Lavazza coffee machine) and a Balcony cabin.

Perhaps the Signature benefits have been added to make the rooms more attractive once the reviews start coming out that there’s no privacy on the balcony? Thankfully I knew all about these issues (and the Cabana deck ones) from watching YouTube videos on P&O’s similar ships.

Here’s hoping a new thread is started on Wednesday for those on the first sailing.

14 hours ago, vjmatty said:

That’s hard to do when looking at the January 20 pictures of the ship. This looks to me like they’d known for some time that Feb 8 and Feb 18 would not be happening.  Apologies are appropriate for accidental and even negligent conduct. Deliberate actions are an entirely different kettle of fish. 

18 hours ago, Joe Gib said:

I only wish I had seen this in January. We were booked for the second sailing, departing tomorrow. Princess kept assuring us, right up until they cancelled 3 days ago, that we would be going. Refunds and FCC’s in three weeks, no option to transfer our payment to another Princess boat that would leave this weekend, salvaging a 60th birthday. Really poorly handled and anyone in commercial construction could see this wasn’t going to happen. 

These pictures are from January 2023.

Having caught up on all the posts since the cancellation, my recommendation to Princess would be to be more open about what has happened because the rumours will continue snowballing:

By the way, my cabin steward on the Discovery Princess said the new Sun Princess is going to be sold for scrap because they fitted the wrong type of toilet paper holders in the Sky Suites 🤔🤣🙄

15 hours ago, Cdude said:

That’s great and I hope you’re properly informed but right now Princess isn’t exactly reputable and from the passenger’s perspective it doesn’t matter if YOUR builder didn’t deliver. How about you make sure there is a proper buffer before you sail before people spend hard earned money, take time off of work and commit emotional spend? Same goes for airlines. They barely have the last passenger off and they are reboarding. Not clean and not safe! It’s all about company profits and 0% about customers which is why Princess deserves a heaping pile of dong salad right now. Why did all those other inaugural sailings that were canceled give guests so much notice? Better management and a long term perspective regarding their reputation! Don’t make excuses. Own it!

How do you know there wasn’t a proper buffer but prior delays had already blown through that hence this cancellation?

Really disappointing to not see the PR ramping up yet. Even the crew aren’t posting anything on Instagram although I believe this is because they aren’t allowed to. With just two weeks to go until the first cruise, I would have thought the PR machine would have started by now.

Connected to this, we have just booked two cruises separately to make a B2B. We’re in separate cabins but on the same deck and similar location. Do you think Princess will automatically recognise this or should we call to link the two bookings?

1 hour ago, PapaGoose said:

BTW, as others have already asked, could the OP give us a hint or two about the “other site” that they saw this news so we can validate the news before we pre purchase a wifi package with our CC instead of OBC? It would be greatly appreciated!

 
I saw it on Mark Zuckerberg’s social media site this morning in one of the Princess groups.

1 hour ago, dog said:

I just read on fb SUN that a cruise was suppose to embark in Trieste Italy now embarks in Istanbul.  I expect many changes to come.

I am just not so sure I will keep both of my bookings. Waiting to find out more about the Signature Inclusions. My cabinmate will take advantage of everything but I booked for the Sun deck, Signature dining & lounge etc.

We have received an email for the 12 September 2025 cruise on Star Princess. We were sailing for 18 days so two 9 day cruises back to back. Trieste has been replaced by two nights in Istanbul. Messina has also been dropped and Mykonos has been added. This isn’t too bad but other ports have been shuffled and we are now left with three ports (four if you include the overnight in Istanbul) repeating over the 18 nights. We had specifically chosen this cruise to avoid too many repeats. Hopefully this gives us the opportunity to change the booking.

We were on the 31 August sailing last year. It was a great cruise as managed to get into Greenland. However, I wish we had sailed one of the earlier August cruises as it was freezing and wet by the time we reached Iceland.

Have to admit, the content resulting from the recent ship visit has been very disappointing. Always think it’s weird that people get invited on the freebie trips by cruise lines in the cruise line’s hope that it leads to free publicity but it seems it seldom does. It’s as though invitees take the money (free trip) and run.

14 minutes ago, upsmanclt said:

I was hoping either the Sun or Star would be sailing a 10-day itinerary. 

Me too. Wasted opportunity having two ships of the same design doing the same itineraries but what do we know?

Thank you Coral for sharing.

It seriously looks as though Princess has run out of ideas. How many ships do they need doing the same seven day itineraries?

Thanks for posting. Hopefully further details will be revealed soon enough as we’re hoping to go to the Caribbean in early 2026.

I’d be very surprised if Love at $149 was included in the Premier package. Does anyone know if 360, Chef’s Table etc. on other ships is included currently?