Yes you can do the tour bus and we have. But the MRT (Subway) may be a better way to go. The system can take you to most places in the city. Also consider taxi as Singapore is small and the fares are cheap. In a normal year we would visit Singapore five to six times so have tried all forms of transportation.

The report is you read the whole thing clears Princess Cruises. Princess operated within the law and the rules. Blame here is 100% on the Government of Australia. And even finding this blame they are doing nothing about it. Sorry Australia has failed here.

I would be talking to your bank about the chargeback...no reason in the would it should not have been approved.  You could look into criminal charges at this point, and those charges could be filed against the credit card company and Princess...really at this point a good case for wire fraud. Money was taken and services and goods not provided.   

Yes they have not handled the refunds well.....Anyone who has followed Princess and refunds knows this. But will still cruise with them, do not want to give up cruising and Princess is the best of the main stream cruise lines.  But we will be cruising 100% for our benefit and Princess will see very little in the way of extra revenue from us.

5 hours ago, ringers0815 said:

We filed a dispute with our credit card in mid-April for a March 10 cruise we had cancelled on March 6 (under Princess' March 5 cancellation policy).  We immediately got a conditional credit on our card then received an email 4 or 5 days later saying the dispute had been resolved in our favour and the credit became permanent. 

If you file the claim with the correct information and within the time frame required you will always win.  One of the reasons Princess is saying wait 60 days is to possibly put  guests outside of the filing time period.

If I had to bet I would bet that Carnival Corporation, will have some ships operating to the Caribbean in November. It will be a limited number and nowhere near the whole fleet (103 +/- ships). Cannot say Princess will be operating but I believe they will be one of the brands for Carnival Corp that will operate. It makes sense for them to do short Caribbean cruises to test the waters....close to home (Corporate) and easy to control.

We have had two cruises canceled already, have our next cruise July 7th out of Australia..... believe it will cancel....and our next Princess Cruise after that, December......believe will cruise.

*****Just my opinion*****

5 hours ago, psygist said:

I booked two cabins so that friends cruising with us can receive my Princess discount on their cabin. We had to book the husbands and wives in different cabins to obtain the discount on both cabins as only my wife and I are entitled to cabin discounts. How diffficult will it be for us to switch cabins once on board?  Will guest relations readily recode keys and change account payment for the two passengers that will switch cabins?

 

Thanks for any advice offered!

OK so let me see if I understand this... Through fraud you are booking a cabin for a friend. You want steal money from Princess Cruises and once booked you want the cruise line  to be happy about this and just change the room cards around. You are not family members, as you stated "friends cruising" so not about moving family members around. You also  want to also change the ship board accounts.

Then you come here and want to involve site members in your conspiracy to defraud Princess Cruises?  You also want to break the rules of the site:

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The Princess host should remove this whole thread. 

9 hours ago, npcl said:

not quite.  The Grand was able to dock  after a plan was developed that the CDC and the State of California agreed to.

 

Either could have blocked the unloading.  The way the powers are set up the CDC can step in to prevent spread if it feels that state and local authorities are not stringent enough, but cannot force a state to loosen standards.

The CDC is the federal Government, sorry you do not understand that fact. The state of California could not block the Grand from docking, they had to agree as the Federal Government through the USCG has control of all ports in the end. 

Sorry but your information is just wrong and not based upon facts , Admiralty Law, or Federal Law. 

In the end Governors do not control port closing. In the United States it would be the USCG and the Federal Government. Maine can ask but hey can be over ruled. The same as Florida was over the last few weeks. If you remember the Governor of California said the Grand Princess could not dock, and what happen over ruled by the Federal Government.

Even if you can book it the cruise will not be on the  Enchanted Princess. The ship is very far behind becasue of Covid-19 and the shutdown of the ship yard. With Princess looking at put half the current fleet into cold layup they are in no hurry to take delivery of another ship. 

Besides because of Covid-19 I believe they will be making some changes to the ship. So when it is sailing they can claim safest cruise ship in the World. Changes to Air systems on the ship, changes to the dinning on the ship with a major redesign of the buffet areas. Some cabins set aside as isolation cabins.... I do not see the Enchanted Princess sailing in 2020.

Royal can apply for any trademark they want....But it means nothing unless the regulations through SOLAS  are changed. And even if SOLAS  changes the regulations countries like the United States through the USCG must approve of the changes. The USCG can still require the current muster drills in US Ports. 

The ships uses bunker fuel HFO or heavy fuel oil, 2 Boiler units feeding 2 x General Electric turbines producing 24,500 horsepower driving the Shaft.

5 minutes ago, leck57 said:

 

Sorry, not a hope. Our Prime Minister commented the other day that he expects international travel will not be allowed until the end of the year.

We had a Baltics cruise on Sky Princess starting the same day so I share your pain.

It is a win win however it goes.... if the cruise sails we have a good cruise.....if it does not Princess gives us more free money.....We will keep booking as long as the offer cruises, if canceled just book another one.

The Philippines is hosting no less than 10 ships now, about 5 are Princess Ships with more on the way.

Our next cruise is July 7th from Sydney. 69 days until boarding....if the ship sails.

She has been pulled out of New York as the ship was not needed. Never more than 15% of the beds used during the time in NYC,  but still costs US Taxpayers millions of dollars. Overall a very big waste.

Never found any always book direct.

You will have a good trip on both dates.  In October the north will be well past peak, many trees will have no leaves. But the color towards the south will be much better. Both are great trips.

It will not help. maybe in the United States you cannot get a doctor to sign off....But in places like the Philippines a doctor will sign anything you want.  Do you think getting a sign off in China would be hard? I also think many doctors even in the US will sign off, if it is even legal for the cruise lines to ask. You know someone will take this to court.

When they first start sailing again the ships will only be about half full. Read several reports saying this and interviews with management from the big three. If the ship is at 50% guests they can spread out in the dinning room. And after this is over, which will happen it will go back to normal.

Welcome to the New Princess

It is not like you have a choice now...one setting take it or leave it.

Yes but it 30 plus minutes video for what you can read on the Princess site in 5 minutes. If you really lazy the better choice is take the 5 minutes to read.

23 minutes ago, samiam1 said:

 

Billions of dollars in lawsuits coming against Carnival. Ordinary shareholders will take a haircut.  And not just suits from passengers but shareholders and suppliers.

I will be very surprised if Carnival pays anything to thees claims. Could see several million in legal fees. But suing Carnival is not a easy thing to do, and many will learn that.

6 hours ago, tgwabd said:

The United States Government said no bailout for Cruise lines since they are from foreign countries...

 

Cruise lines, early source of coronavirus infections, out of bailout package

Top cruise companies don’t locate in America and won’t get piece of a $500 billion bailout fund, their industry group says

The United States Government should bail out the three major cruise companies. But they should not give them cash or other things that will cost the taxpayers money. Very simple way to do this with no costs to the US and great benefits.

Allow them to do cruises with their Foreign Flagged ships from US Port to US Port with no required Foreign Port. These types of cruises are not allowed under Passenger Vessel Services Act, some people says Jones Act but the Jones Act is for Cargo.

The Passenger Service Act fines the crew line almost $800 dollars per guest on the ship if they break the rules. The answer is really very simple. The US Government waves these fines for a set period of time. Maybe 6 months to a year.

It would allow ships to go from the West Coast to Alaska without stopping in Canada. They could do East Coast Cruises with no foreign port call. Houston, New Orleans, Tampa, Key West, etc.

Once the United States is clear of this virus it would help the US ports and the Cruise lines, it would allow guest to cruise without passports and stay within the United States.

Even very seasoned cruisers would be interested in these cruises which are never offered on very large cruise ships. Except Hawaii Pride of America. Other cruise lines could do Hawaii cruises too. It seems like a win win to me.