TrixieBel

As a Sydneysider, it’s so cute to see you get the names of places just slightly wrong… 😊 Loving it. And totally hooked on seeing how it all goes!

Yes there is bag drop at the terminal. You can drop your bag and go off elsewhere

Except it seems CanadianBurger was able to just walk into the area as he said the doors weren’t actually locked… 🫣

If you’re in one of those you can open your gate, take a few steps forward to a comfy seat and sit and watch the ocean and sun? I feel like I’d like those cabins. I’d get my nice cabin. A big indoor / outdoor area of my own. A sun lounge outside that I didn’t have to get up at 6am to “reserve”. And a relatively private larger deck area to relax with drinks.

You may find there’s a “secret” outlet right under the bed. If the bed is split as 2 singles it’s more accessible.

Pretty sure “election year” is not a huge thing for this global cruise company. As a reminder, there’s many countries where Princess ships are sailing where it’s not currently an election year. And where many people sailing on the ships aren’t American.

Go into your account and Manage my Booking. Then scroll down and find the link that I’ve pointed the red arrow at…

The person in the pool swinging chair with their feet in the water had their shoes on… 🤢 (I am definitely reminded to never put my head under)

I want the food…. 🤗🍲

There’s a woman on board who was upgraded to one of these on this first sailing. She has posted on F..B about not enjoying the experience of this type of cabin. However she is travelling alone and is not someone who normally sits out and sunbathes. So I could see how this wouldn’t suit her. As a couple who enjoys spending a morning sitting out reading our books. With the occasional dip. This type of cabin, with direct access to the comfy seating and the spa pool looks like something we could enjoy.

Yes. The doors out into that area will only open to people with the access on their card because they have a Cabana cabin.

For my sailing it tells us whether each port is a tender port when we go to the option of looking at the daily schedule. Maybe you haven’t found that section to look at online or in the app yet.

Hi there. This was my general question about get togethers on the Royal. To register for a specific get together you should find the page for your specific sailing in the ROLL CALLS section of this site.

We had an invite for the Chefs Table Lumiere on the Majestic last year. What an experience! Honestly was the finest, fanciest, most filling, and most fun meal we’ve had. Definitely no regrets.

Reset the password. They changed the requirements for passwords and some symbols that could previously be in your password are now not allowed.

Impressive number! Hope it goes smoothly.

Thank you…. That makes sense given it looks like a generally quieter, less attended venue, on the Royal. We had a great turnout of ship’s officers at the one on the Majestic. Will be interesting to see if there’s such a good turnout by officers in a more public area. It was so interesting being able to ask questions of engineering officers etc.

Can anyone who has organised or attended a CC get together on the Royal let me know which space it gets scheduled into by the events officer/liaison? We are sailing on the Royal in 2025. When we sailed on the Majestic in 2023 I organised the Cruise Critic get together and it was in the Solarium lounge area at the bow just past the adult pool. That was a great place to have it. On the Royal that area doesn’t exist.

Yes. It can go either way depending on the exchange rate. I recently prebooked two specialty dinners for our cruise and my credit card was charged (USD converted to AUD). Then I cancelled both dinners a couple of weeks later as we had decided to cancel and rebook the cruise under a better booking deal. The amount refunded to my card for the cancelled dinners was AUD$30 more than it cost me to book them. The exchange rate was good to me.. ☺️

The person on the end of the line seemed quite confident in what they were saying. 😎 We like to eat late, which I know is unusual. We will wait and make our bookings after the final payment is made.

This happened to me. I called the help line. They said that it would happen if our cruise wasn’t fully paid. It’s not. So my choice was to pay for the dinner up front and then go to guest services once on board to get a refund as OBC. Or, not book until after our final payment is made.

This is terrible practice and a food safety issue. 🤢

I had the same problem. Be careful as I used the advice to do via the web where it showed no charge. It still charged me. When I called Princess I learned that it was charging me because we were not fully paid up. It won’t show up free until you’ve fully paid the cruise and not just the deposit.

You don’t say how much deposit you paid… Sometimes the economics can work out for you depending on how you want to play the game of booking. We’ve had a Club Class Minisuite with Premier Package booked for a sailing on a $25pp non-refundable deposit. Latest offer on Princess showed we could book a Penthouse Suite for just $100 more on a $98pp deposit with just the Basic fare. We’ve cancelled the mini and forfeited the $50 deposit in favour of the Penthouse. Will upgrade to the Plus drinks package later. We aren’t huge alcohol drinkers and don’t care about the majority of the Premium perks we now won’t get. And, we will now get some different perks from being in a full suite. Worth it for us. But others might make different choices!

Do you get wifi? Can you just pay for wifi without having to get one of those packages? I’ve been trying to find out - but nothing on the Princess site or app clarifies this…