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Unless you do not have a smart phone. (Yes, some people who cruise do not own one.)

I'm saying not all ships are required to depart the embarkation port at the scheduled time and that the end of shift for contracted porters and check-in personnel does not always mean late arriving passengers cannot board.

I have seen where they will often delay the last flight of a day for late arriving connecting passengers. (Can't do this if crew would time out though.) Also have been on earlier flights during the day when the plane will wait for connecting passengers that have already landed.

Was on a different cruise line in a different port. Bad weather led to plane arrival delays. Scheduled to sail at 4 PM, delayed until 10 PM for the delayed passengers, Was only ship at that port that day. Certainly check-in staff and porters had left as scheduled. So ship's personnel helped with the luggage and check-in completed after boarding. NCL could have done the same for this cruise.

#1 because two of the stays include a full day at the site. When you are at a lodge for only one night, most of the day is spent traveling between lodges.

Just what computer security experts recommend, putting your personal information on someone else's digital device.

Yes, Resistance Is Futile.

The benefit dates as listed in the annual report have always been accurate. Switching to stockperks just makes the way to request the benefit different.

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Historically it is approved by the Board of Directors in February and listed on page 3 of the annual report sent out in early March. It is not in the new annual stockholders report. Not a good sign.

It is reinstated "as it is every year" by late February and is listed in the annual report. It has not been extended yet and is not listed in the just issued annual report.

By now it should have been extended to sailings through December 31, 2025. Using the app just means you can get it a different way for sailings through December 31, 2024. No sign at all the benefit has been extended for another year.

Usually by late February the stockholders OBC is approved for an additional year. I have not seen that this has happened as it should have been extended by now for bookings though December 25, 2025. Has anyone seen any notice that it has either been extended or is being eliminated? It usually is listed near the front of the annual stockholder's report, but is not there this year.

In 2008 Princess did have a cruisetour that did include the Galapagos. The cruise part ended in Guayaquil. The tour part then had a flight to the Galapagos and (depending on the date) a four day or three day Galapagos experience that visited multiple islands.

What a poor excuse. Let's become more like the competition instead of being unique and differentiating the brand from other cruise lines. From this change to now also charging for room service to building larger and larger ships that can no longer go to many unique ports that used to be on Princess itineraries, Princess looks more and more like the competition. If one is going on a Caribbean cruise or an Alaska cruise on similar size ships with almost identical itineraries (different private islands in the Caribbean), why pick Princess unless there is a price advantage?

Call Princess. The air department can help you do it over the phone.

In my case I had a cruise booked pre-pandemic and had paid 95% of it before final payment. When it was cancelled due to the pandemic, Princess offered 100% of the deposit extra (plus the deposit itself) as FCCs. I assume Princess figured that a $100 deposit that resulted in a $200 FCC was good PR. As a result of having almost fully paid for that cruise, the extra OBC was basically enough for a free cruise.

Will this apply to the Chef's Table and/or the Winemaker Dinner?

The difference is that the staff in the specialty restaurants have always been included in the tipping pool for food service personnel. You are paying for that in your daily gratuity charge where it is part of a plus or other package or on your daily onboard account. The restaurant servers are included in the daily gratuity charge. The bar staff are not, so their tips have always come from the gratuity charged when you purchased a beverage or as part of a beverage package.

Currently same price on board the first day as pre-cruise.

There may be a larger selection of 350ML bottles avialble on board from room service than there are available in advance on the web site. No benefit to ordering in advance as even if you so so, you must call room service to arrange delivery once aboard.

For Princess it depends on the ship. The newest ones have USB ports on the bedside lamps. Also some of the recently refurbished ships have them.

Looks like they are essentially extending the ability to make a Future Cruise Deposit (FCD) while on board to buying one for a couple of months after the cruise. They have done this in the past, but with lower OBC amounts than if purchased on board. Since the current top OBC if purchased onboard is $150 (17+ days in a full suite), with this offer having a maximum of $125 OBC indicates again the OBC is less than if the FCD was made onboard. (Note that while the maximum OBC if booked on board is, as shown above, $150, more typical is 7 days in a balcony cabin for which the OBC amount is $50.)

Earlier this year the veteran's OBC was changed to be non-refundable. That may be the $25 discrepancy you have between what they told you on the ship and what you are really getting. Ship's staff are not always up-to-date in knowledge about changes like that which HQ makes. Pre-cruise the part of the Personalizer on the Princess web site that lists OBC indicates which OBC is refundable and which is not. On the ship, unless the Regal is different, the printed onboard account statement should indicate by each OBC if it is refundable or not. For example, on my last cruise the statement said "Shareholder Benefit (non-refuindable)" -100

Only if it shows up in the App when you look at the daily schedules.