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We had Princess Vacation Protection. The cost of the Plus package using OBC on cruise #5 was $909.86. $840 + $69.86. I assumed they added the extra cost of insurance.

I am saying I don't think a universal remote would work, so I wouldn't try. I was in 5 different cabins on the Discovery and the manual procedure that worked on the Enchanted was locked out on all of them. If a universal remote worked I think someone would have posted it by now.

I wouldn’t if I were you. I just spent a month on the Discovery

They were available on my recent cruises on the Discovery Princess.

I would wait until you are on the ship. We recently sailed on a B2B2B2B2B on the Discovery Princess. I had booked the first 3 cruises prior to sailing with the Plus packages. I booked cruises 4 & 5 after sailing to take advantage of a 1/2 price sale without the plus package. At the start of cruise #4 I went to the PSD to book the Plus package using OBC. He told me I was eligible for an upgrade to Premier without having to purchase the Plus package. In other words I got Premier for $420 instead of Plus for $840. From now on I add the package after embarkation. Don't buy a drink until the plan is activated. That left me enough OBC to buy the Plus Package on cruise #5. There will be standing at different places on embarkation trying to sell the packages.

Perhaps the bean counters at Princess looked at your examples and decided that maybe you aren't their best customers. Maybe the best customers are the ones willing to pay the inflated costs of packages, Princess excursions, and internet. They aren't making these changes to be mean, they're doing it to increase the bottom line. Only time will tell if they are right, but by that time many of their former best customers will have died off or be too old to cruise anyway.

My recent experience taking Yoga classes on the Discovery Princess was Day 1 & 2 was close to capacity (20 I believe), because people had a package. The Aerobics Room is fairly small.The remaining days dropped to very few, when people had to start paying. Not many were going to pay $30 for a 30 minute basic yoga class. In the past, one could take a fitness class as part of a package depending on the number of sea days. I think I remember paying $80 plus 18% gratuity for 5 classes. Those classes seldom had more than 5-6 people. Last year on the Enchanted I was the only one in the class. The instructor was the only personal trainer on board. He hurt his back, so he had to give my money back. Discovery had 3 trainers under a new contract with Xponential Fitness, Everything was the same. When they aren't holding classes they are trying to sell something in their seminars like orthotics or personal training.

Much of ours gets put away until the next cruise.

You might start by rereading the Passage Contract. It's pretty clear.

Trying to plug a cable into a HDMI outlet behind the TV with limited access increases the risk of breaking something. I bring a laptop or iPad to review my iPhone videos and pictures. I used to bring an HDMI cable to watch movies on the TV. It's their TV, so I am fine with them limiting access and deciding how it will be used. Better than the one on my last NCL cruise, which wasn't much bigger than a computer monitor.

Possibly even less who take advantage of the fitness classes.

Not just bridge cams. I have been having trouble looking at deck plans, too.

Win win for everybody, because it costs Princess very little to provide all of that.

I think they don't want people messing with the tv.

Looking forward to trying it out. Ropes Course too.

On a recent cruise on the Discovery Princess they were unable to stock the mini-bar, so they put a bottle of Pinot Noir in it. I don't know what it was they came up short, but I suspect it was the small bottles. We usually swap out for a bottle of wine or beer and water anyway.

We won a few battles, but Princess won the war.

Not sure Princess is all that interested in hanging on to their existing customers. Although he doesn't seem to be that popular, that someone is filling the ships with cruisers who spend more money than the so called loyal existing customers like the ones who know all the tricks to minimize the cost of their cruises. I would think bottom line is something that would be taught in business school.

After the first leg I only had $50 refundable OBC. Thanks for your suggestions. During the cruise I would receive an email folio summary after each segment. The folio always showed a total refundable and nonrefundable OBC except the final. I had no reason to think Princess would delete $200 in past nonrefundable OBC so they could take my wife's charges out of my refundable OBC.

Following my folio throughout the 5 cruises I thought i wasn't leaving any $$$ on my account. I learned a lesson about Princess economics and was offering an explanation to the OP of what might have happened.

I think they canceled it out so they could take my wife’s charges out of the refundable OBC. If I had taken cash out they might have taken all my refundable OBC. I think they were going to get my wife’s charges one way or the other. Never had anything like this happen before. I didn’t want to make a trip to the Casino each cruise, but I might from now on. I certainly didn’t want to carry that much cash around.

Is it possible that one of you had a debit of $492? For example, we recently completed a 30 day cruise on the Discovery Princess (B2B2B2B2B). Princess can have some creative folio accounting. During the cruises OBC was cumulative and the folio would show the total of the two accounts each time I looked at. On the last day our total folio showed $400 military refundable OBC ($50+$50+100+100+100) and $41 nonrefundable OBC, so I thought I would be getting a check for $400 in a few weeks. Not so. The first day home we got two email summaries of charges. The folio I got in my email reflected a charge of $176.91 transferred from my wife's account. Princess then deleted a $100 Shareholder credit and 2 $50 FCCs from previous segments to make my total credit $200 less and the check I'll be receiving $241 instead of $400. Night before disembarkation: My Folio Credits -$1427.48 Charges $809.27 Total - $618.21 Wife's Folio Credits - $583.98 Charges $760.89 Total $176.91 Total Refundable $400 Total Nonrefundable $41.30 Folio email following cruise Credits -$1227.48 Folio to Folio Transfer Mrs $176.91 Referred to Corporate Finance $241.30 Charges $1227.48 Wife's Folio Folio to Folio Transfer - $176.91 Charges $776.64 Credits $776.64

We were on the Royal Inaugural Transatlantic in 2015 followed by the five day Inaugural Caribbean cruise. We had to get off for three days in between so travel agents could check her out.

a lot of trouble to post something childish and not very funny as an April Fool joke.

Even better, because it gives more information, like location.