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  1. My shower has pump bottles sort of attached to the wall. So not quite a dispenser (unless you count a pump bottle as a dispenser, which it is, but...), but, yes, it does have shampoo.
  2. Doesn't matter, according to multiple people in different departments; the backend for the reservation system is distinct from the display that's passenger-facing. Which is probably for the best, since, depending on the day, I have one to six of them showing, but whoever the service desk phones about it insists there's only one showing.
  3. Unlikely, since I received a call at the end of my first leg about booking for the subsequent legs, and I said that any consistent time before 7PM was fine... And they called back confirming me for 5:20. Which is very much unconfirmed.
  4. I've been escalated to three different tiers of management to get a fixed time (not even a fixed table) before 7PM, as was promised by five different staff. I still can't get in without the staff doing seating at the door telling me it's my fault every day.
  5. It's mostly that La Bayou has a distinct menu that, barring its sister ship, has items unavailable anywhere else on the line. It's also the premium steakhouse (allegedly), so... yeah... The buffet is open until 10PM, and the Lido pizza's open until 11PM, so I mostly grab random piles of stuff from there and keep it in my room for late night/early morning food. Room service is also available. A lot of the bars have espresso machines (as opposed to there being only a few on ships that have an International Cafe), so you can get your premium coffees there. There's also a bakery/pastry-ish area at the front of Lido, capping off the buffet. The main atrium on this ship is four floors, has Good Spirits, at least one other bar, the service desk, both MDRs, and has entrances directly to the library, internet cafe, and whatever the smoking lounge on this one is. (I don't think it was labelled Churchill's, but I could be mistaken.) I don't know if there were more people dispatched to other hotels-- that was just to the one hotel that had people that was part of the mega-party that I had met.
  6. Staff seems a bit short, and my steward last week seemed particularly addled-- when you need to drop off messages in a room with DND, just shove it under the door... No need to call to say there're messages... MDR reservations have been a hellscape. Service desk staff have been making fundamental errors (kept adjusting stuff on the wrong accounts!). No international Cafe (and by extension, no 24/7 food). No Alfredo's, but Sabatini's has pizza for lunch... Sometimes. Still never made my way to it when it open. Shows tend to be small scale ones... Allegedly, one of the comedians did their very first show last voyage. I think there was only one full-scale production show. (Maybe two?) I'd recommend La Bayou, on the grounds only Coral(?) and the Island have it. Sabatini's is available elsewhere, though they changed up their plating here. They both were, uh, lackluster, though. (And, judging from what I've seen other people say, I tend to be fairly generous in my assessments.) There's been a litany of issues, mostly things that would probably have been ironed out after a few weeks in service, for passengers to find and report them for fixing... But one I doubt they can do much about is I heard reports of a lot of nonfunctional safes. Aft port 8 was the quarantine ward last voyage... Heard 20 people were debarked for quarantine at a single hotel this turnaround.
  7. Always problematic for me, and in multiple ways. The upshot, if you like eating late, there's almost always easy availability for onboard bookings after 7PM.
  8. Waitwaitwait-- MNet WiFi (1-DEVICE)? The new package is supposed to be 4-devices I thought? Edit: Never mind, that must be what the MNet device upgrade is... Conveniently NOT listed right next to the 1-device entry.
  9. If you want to do a metagame version of Majority Rules, have people vote on the answer-- but have them scored on what they think the majority answer is. I've found you're also more likely to get honest answers out of that variant too, instead of people trying to second guess the crowd just to win: I was really surprised when kittens/puppies/sloths lost out as cutest animal. (Sloths were the trendy animal at the time.)
  10. Budgetary reasons, access to more cash than available on the credit line, profitable financial shenanigans, other people paying... plenty others.
  11. i - United States Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Coast Guard, National Guard or Reserves with a copy of a military verification certificate confirming active duty status available for free online at Servicemembers Civil Relief Act website. ii - Canadian National Defense -- CF1FC Silver Card with the word Veteran in the lower left corner for retired or the initials CAF for active military. Tangentially related, the current, US-version of the Princess site doesn't make a mention of people who served in the militaries beyond US/CA, but I did spot a (different) forum discussing getting it in the UK from 2013, and a travel agency from 2015 for Australia and New Zealand... any idea what other nations may receive it? Edit: There's a different bit in the fine print for retired; just copied the bit listing the active for brevity.
  12. There are definitely those that can with adequate internet... which is exactly what I do, especially since my internet requirements aren't particularly stringent. (No streaming necessary; all documents and basic emails.) I don't think that's their long term plan though-- Princess'd really need to boost their consistency to make it work out, and I don't think they currently have the right lifestyle mix to sustain interest for most people in situations like that. On the other hand, with the rising interest in remote work, maybe they're trying to get out (too, too far) ahead of the crowd. Having said that, Princess probably doesn't want me sailing with them anyways, since I've been a net expense for them, so... 🤷‍♂️
  13. Except around a third of the time, when I have a four-digit amount of freeplay, it truncates the last digit in the display, even when there should be enough room to display it, so... fun times!
  14. I hope the ship is still in existence-- I'm currently on it! Seriously though, I just checked the website and saw 37ish voyages listed as available.
  15. A month ago, food on the Majestic was fine... Food on the Island right now is... Questionable. I wouldn't say it's BAD (I haven't gotten sick, and I can get it down), but there are definitely preparation decisions that make me wonder.
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