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On princess, there was a notorious couple on a multitude of cruises that used the prizes for the staff. They also got into a lot of arguments with everyone. Word got out, believe this or not, supposedly princess requested they no longer sail with them.

After many many cruises and many manytrivias on each cruise I have found it depends on the cruise trivia staff to not be lazy. If we play on a b2b, we inform them that they are asking repeat questions. All of them have then gone and found new questions.

I am wondering if all the changes so early on are due to princess losing priority status? They do plan two years in advance and to hear a newer carnival ship got the spot???

I don’t know but, we went on several Grand Princess cruises several years ago. I inquired on the first cruise about having thin rims on the glass. This was in the Vines. The wonderful sommelier pulled out in the back two riedel glasses. The rest of the cruise he nightly served our wine in the reidels the other Grand cruises we took for the next two years, the same sommelier worked and astonishingly to me he remembered our names and automatically gave us the reidels. By the way, his name was Christopher. The grand is no longer in San Francisco. heres wishing you the same good fortune.

I was so frustrated and finally received Scott's name at stockperks. He told me what info I should provide and I did. Today finally received confirmation of obc for stocks.

I went online at 4:30 PM Sat. and where it reads to pay with charge card, I put in the info. Immediately received response that my account was paid in full. Should be interesting if my travel person with Princess gets the credit for it she has been "begging" for. I won't be using her again.

Thanks much. I took your advice and paid. I too am worry wart.

Today my final payment is due. My princess cruise person advised me the other day to not worry as it is paid automatically. It is after 4 pm and it has not been paid. I am fearful of losing my reservation. Has anyone had this experience? I feel if I pay myself that they would charge it later and I would have paid twice. Any suggestions welcomed.

Would like to know if there is a non alcohol package that would include the coffees? If we turn in the mini bar, what can we get for it now? What is the cost of the plus package daily - I keep hearing different amounts. thanks much

I got into the app up until it asked for our broker etc. I do not want it having access to our accounts or brokerage. I finally sent an email to an email address given to me and asked questions. It will take a few days for a response

So my distrust of Stockperks site caused me to email the obc request. Shortly after sending it I received two emails. First one thanked me for sending it and telling me it will take up to 21 days to process. The second email told me the new process is Stockperks. I will wait to see if it gets processed.

I learned this app is how to submit your stock info for shipboard credit. After going on it, I am leery. Does it get access to one’s stock info in general? It asks so many types of questions. has anyone used it yet? Please let me know what you think. Thanks

Don’t know the answers but I booked years ago ezair to Europe and back to Calif from NY on a transatlantic. The fare at the time was approx &450. Each. I somehow got into the habit if checking the airfare once a month prior to having to pay it. We ended up paying 189. Per person for the flights. last wee I checked on ezair our flight from Ft. Lauderdale to Calif which was $950. For 2. It dropped to 800. For 2. Same flight and seats. I consider this a big plus for ezair.

Thanks much reedprincess. Needed to know we could still enjoy the vines for wine only.

I agree with you. Don’t forget, it is 11.00$ today imagine what it could be tomorrow.

Since for years we went to the vines before dinner and had either sushi or tapas plate as a small bite with the wine I am confused about it being a casual dining experience. i know it no longer has tapas or sushi. But can we go and just have our usual wine only with no food! thanks for letting me know

After reading cc for quite sometime and especially post major covid - I read the food is not what it was in quantity and quality, the elite perks also have dropped or disappeared altogether, and a lot of the costs have skyrocketed. I can only surmise Princess is no longer interested in loyalty of slightly older or very much older individuals. What is funny is that these same older folks have children and grandchildren who want to cruise now or later and a lot of us who use to automatically recommend a princess cruise, will no longer. Losing business is not a good business plan.

Reading all these responses is heartwarming. I remembered the 2 transatlantic we did, one was on the new noordam’s first crossing, but both TAs had British bands and one performed Glen Miller music. also we were with sone single women who wanted to dance and the ship had male dancers whose job was to ask single women to dance. the ambiance on the cruises is unequaled.

We have not been on Holland America since 2006. We are 3 star. We did a few transatlantic trips and they had big bands onboard. What a blast. We had terrific times and got to meet great individuals. Do they still have the big blanc crossings? thanks

We use to bring ( on longer than 20 days) a dozen bottles of really good wine since we live near Napa and all the other wine cities. After going thru security we went to the wine table and paid corkage for all our wine. Stickers were put on the bottles. Once t there was no table set up and so when everything went thru X-ray, they pulled our wine. Upon entering our cabin the phone rang and I had to go to deck 4 and pay corkage. Never any problem. advantageis that if you bring a bottle to MDR you pay corkage and gratuity. Paying ahead there is no gratuity added. all that written, our recent cruise included the princess plus package. We did not bring wine onboard. We are not heavy drinkers but we enjoyed the fact we did not have to watch charges to the statement at end of cruise and got to try different drinks.

I have to agree with Steelers in general. I went on one NCL cruise years ago and can’t think of anything positive. Funnily enough, the girlfriend I was with made a photo album for me. Each page listed an item, I.e. buffet on a cruise with a beautiful looking layout of a variety of food. Then a picture of what we actually got. If it wasn’t so funny we would have cried. I will never go on NCL again

I keep reading that since charging for Alfredo’s, there isn’t any crowd anymore. I for one will no longer eat there now that there is a charge, just not worth it. Rather eat in MDR or buffet.

The Ruby converted to lavazza a month ago. It was wonderful

We just got off Ruby recently. Specialty coffees were charged against the 15 drink limit but none of us ever even reached 5 drinks a day so we didn’t care. But when I wrote that previously individuals were outraged that coffee was taken as one of the 15.

Since 2006 4 of us have gone nightly to the vines and get glasses of wine. At 5 pm you were always able to get tapas and/or sushi. We loved it as it was a small plate so when we went for dinner we were hungry. On our cruise earlier this month we ended up going to the elite lounge. They have a small buffet of food so we could get something with our drinks.