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I can only guess at this moment because I am taking my first post covid times cruise, but the vista class ships ( royal, regal, discovery, enchanted) had regular coffee thru out ship including dining rooms. All others had coffee made from a syrup which my personal opinion is it is awful. I would suggest upon having your first meal onboard ask if coffee is made from syrup. Hope this helps

Guess I am showing my age -- that's Manuel from Fawlty Towers. One of the funniest shows ever created umpteen years ago with John Cleese.

Can’t find the banner reading flight quotes anymore and we are interested in a cruise for this year

I use to be able online to checkout cruises I was interested in as well as what flights and pricing were being offered. I can’t find that anymore. in addition I have booked a cruise for April 2024 and altho we are less than 333 days away, still can’t check flights. anyone know what is happening? thanks

As someone who has done a multitude of transatlantic crossibg - favorite cruise - the last few they ran a trivia at noon for all sea days that the scores for each team were kept on file. The top 3 teams on the final sea day got gifts. But it surely was fun and we met quite a few other passengers because of it. also we have done some that ran like an Olympics on sea days - virtual games or ring toss or shuffleboard, ping pong. Also fun and made friends. Have to write that a friend of ours competed in ping pong against a blind individual and our friend lost. That has become a laugh with our friend for years. if you don’t see things being offered, go to cruise director and make suggestions. hope this helps

I find it ironic that Princess wants to push for more cruises being purchased on board. Over the years my experience with future cruise people and getting quotes were always soooo much higher than my travel agent. I would get a quote onboard and then email my agent for a quote. Ended up never purchasing onboard. It is almost like Princess is trying hard to lose its loyalty base with all the changes that have been made in perks. If we get "sales people" onboard getting aggressive with sales, that could also turn a lot of us off. I keep telling friends that cruising is going back to the 40's and 50's when it was a true luxury vacation and the average person could not afford it. The prices have skyrocketed, and the next generation of vacationers won't be able to cruise. Please don't jump all over me, it is my opinion. Thanks

We were there in 2019, but we usually do Europe in the fall on a transatlantic cruise. Wait time was about ten to 15 minutes. My dh had an Irish friend drive us all over. After the Blarney Stone we walked out of the area and were taken to a local pub for lunch. It was fabulous to say the least.

As someone who normally travelled a party of ten people, pre covid and pre medallion, we would show up at MDR the first night and request table for ten. We would get it but we knew they normally use them as sharing tables. By the second night that first table and waiter were ours the rest of the cruise. only real negative is that our party of ten spent at least 3 hours having a meal. Our friends ended up hating to miss the show so that they ate at a different time. We were then down to six which is more manageable.

I reached elite before my husband, but I put our clothes in a bag with my name and never had a problem.

I have the plus package from before the increase in price. It does not include the premium desserts or fitness classes???.

For years I was always able to get shipboard credit easily with my visa. I went online to get some shipboard credit, but the site has changed. Any ideas are welcomed. Altho we purchased princess plus which includes drinks and gratuities, we always used shipboard credits for e cursions, specialty dining and in the casino. thanks for any help

We have reserved an owners suite for our Alaskan cruise. We are elite but we are treating ourselves for our 50 th anniversary. the balcony wraps around and has lounge chairs as well as table with 4 chairs. We can have friends join us for dinner (off the dining room menu) This is something I like. On the Ruby the owners suite is aft and we are on the aloha deck. I don’t think you can go too wrong whatever you decide

We have reserved a regular suite. I realize we can have the MDR food brought to our cabin. So my question is, we are traveling with another couple. Can they join us in our cabin? Will the ship send 4 dinners to our cabin? thanks for any responses.

We have spent birthdays, anniversaries etc. with our cruising buddies at the Crown Grill and loved it. But - many many years ago we ate at Sabatini and really loved that. When we returned a year later to Sabatini we hated it. But, our last cruise pre pandemic, we went back to Sabatinis and loved it so much with newer menu and room ambiance that I think we will celebrate there on our cruise. the point I am trying to make is - both restaurants are special for a special occasion. Enjoy. one last thing tho, we found the crown grill to get very busy and therefore the servers are very busy. Sabatini’s doesn’t seem to get as crowded. happy anniversary

If you cruise on the newer ships, there is an area in the horizon court buffet area full of the healthy choices.

My friends and I for so many years have gone to the vines before going to dinner. We order a bottle of wine and have the sushi or tapas. When we noticed about five or six years ago many non drinkers sitting in the vines at a high useage time we spoke to the staff. We suggested they put out signs saying “seating for cruisers enjoying wine from 4 to 7 pm” we were told they couldn’t that. My reply was this is where princess could make money but chooses not to. Makes no sense. All of us stopped going that year to the vines.

Thanks so much. I got my benefit in less than 24 hours.

Thank you so very much A. Keasley

I feel like a complete dodo. I got the info from the agent, but can't find it. Anyone know how I can find it. I need to fax into Carnival my stock info. Thanks so very very much.

We have done the Hawaii sailing from SF many many times. Even in great weather, leaving SF the first 24 hours is a difficult sailing. Don't know what causes it.

When we cruise we usually are a group to six or eight people, but we are individual bookings. When we go to the crown grill, I gather the couples names and cabin numbers. I call up and make the reservation for a table of six or eight. I have never had a problem and we are all elite, so quite a few sailings under our feet. You should really have no problem.

We don’t do things the easy way. We went from Southampton to Clapton Junction via train. We could have opted to go to the airport also. Yes, we had full luggage from the transatlantic cruise.

I keep going onto the Princess website. I am looking at the cruises starting Aug. 5 2023. Here is the screen shot:

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Ok, here is latest. I spoke to princess person who made the original reservation. She sent a full confirmation of my original reservation. So fingers crossed. I told her I did not want to learn I couldn’t have this cabin and have princess downgrade me and offer refunds or obc . She swears that can’t happen. I told her that a huge percentage of loyal princess passengers have faith in princess right now. thanks to all for responding