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True up until about a month ago. Newly issued ones require booking (not sailing) within a year of purchase. The older FCDs are still good for two years.

Yes

Not the original Love Boat I sailed on. No inside or regular oceanview cabin had a bed two people could sleep in. One bed (a couch during the day) was against the outside wall and the other was mounted (folded up) on a wall perpendicular to it. As the pictures below show, the cabin on the Aloha deck was not nearly as roomy as the ones shown on the original TV show. (Balcony cabins did not exist then.)

Best way is to ask the question on a "live from" thread from the ship you will be on. Of course only the "production" show information will apply to your cruise. Entertainers such as comedians, singers, etc. can be different from one voyage to the next.

Noro will hit you hard in less than 24 hours after catching it. So they were not spreading it at work, etc. because they did not have it then. Anyone with active noro would be in no condition to travel to a cruise. So initially passengers likely pick it up on the way to the cruise or at a port stop. Then once on board, will spread it before the symptoms hit. Or spread it after symptoms hit by not staying in their cabin.

Correct. The luggage that Princess transfers can be the usual size you would check on an airline. The day bag you carry yourself should be the size you would normally put under your seat on a plane flight because that is what you will have to do on the trains that are a part of the tour. By the way, since a cruise is part of the cruisetour, you may have additional luggage that Princess will store for you to be delivered to your cabin if the tour is first or to meet you at the last hotel/lodge if the tour is after the cruise. Unlike on the cruise, for the tour part you will be unpacking and packing every one or two nights. With most of our clothes just needed for the cruise, for the tour part we put both of our clothes, etc. in the same suitcase so we had less to unpack and pack each day. So although we each could have a regular suitcase on the tour part, we had just one for the both of us. Took less space in the rooms on the tour and less effort to find what we needed since the suitcase did not have stuff we needed just for the ship.

Whether you have the same waitstaff or not, it does not matter. Your pre-order is saved using your cabin number. You just have to tell the waitstaff at lunch that you have pre-ordered and give them your cabin number. If you do have different staff each lunch time, be sure to ask for the person who takes your special order for the next dining room lunch. I do not know if you can ask for a dinner item at lunch time. You will have to ask on board about that.

Because when one person gets up at night, the bright light can wake up the other person who is sleeping.

For adults at dinner, a no-no. For 8-year old boys, a yes-yes.

Not what they should have said. Just like a shore excursion paid for pre-cruise, if it is cancelled when on board the money gets posted as OBC. No wonder you are having such a hard time getting your money back. HQ probably thinks it was refunded while on board.

What Steelers36 said is the way it is supposed to work. Did you ask about the refund while still on board the ship?

Yes, because that is your deposit.

A special elevator can be used to get to the tender deck. Must be able to get on the tender with assistance from crew, but not using the mobility device. Mobility device must not weigh too much (50 pound limit?) to allow crew to put it on and taker it off the tender. If seas are rough, tendering may not be allowed for a person with a mobility device even if allowed in calm waters.

Allowed indoors in casino and in cigar lounge

No personal experience, but I have seen posts saying tables are set up to allow this to be easily accomplished.

If the 14 day could have been booked as two 7-day cruises, you should have received a cruise credit for each segment (two credits if in a full suite for each segment). This has been true since about 2012. Before about 2012, only one credit would have been given for a 14-day that could have been booked as two 7-day cruises. Yes.

I forget to mention that you cannot transfer the booking to a TA if you have already made the final payment for the cruise.

Under New York law, CFAR benefits in the travel context do not technically qualify as insurance because the cancellation of a trip “for any reason” does not depend on the occurrence of fortuitous event https://www.dfs.ny.gov/industry_guidance/circular_letters/cl2020_04

Are you asking about Princess doing the laundry or yourself using the laundromat?

As mentioned by others, using EZAir for international travel gives the biggest $$$ savings when compared to what the airlines charge, especially when doing air in one direction. For domestic flights, EZAir is usually no better than airline pricing. A flexible EZAir flight booking can be cancelled with no penalty up unto 45 days before the first flight or the cruise starts, whichever comes first. If Princess cancels the cruise, you will get your EZAir $$$ refunded, but if booked with an airline, you will be subject to airline rules which usually require using any credit (less any feea) within a year of when the booking was made. Since bookings with an airline can be made up to 330 days in advance, you might actually have very little time left to use that airline credit. And your alternate use of that airline credit might be for a destination that the airline (or partners) does not fly to. And as mentioned in another post above, if your ship is late in reaching the disembarkation port, Princess will take care of rebooking EZAir flights and there will be no additional cost to you. If booked directly with the airline, you will be responsible to dealing with any needed rebooking and any additional costs. By the way, EZAir does not require flying in on the day of embarkation or out on the day of disembarkation. You can usually select flight days two weeks or more before/after the cruise. And, also, you do not have to fly home from the disembarkation city. For example, you could disembark in Southampton and fly home from Paris. EZAir flights do not cover all of an airline's flights, so you might find better scheduling or routing if booking directly with the airline. And not all airlines are available with EZAir. Southwest may be available, but not with flexible fares.

Other replies have been accurate, but for a first timer need additional explanation. a) A Future Cruise Deposit (FCD) may be purchased for $100 each while on the cruise. This can be done in person with the Future Cruise Consultant, with a form you can leave with the Future Cruise Consultant, or with the Princess app on a smart phone. Each person would need an FCD in their name to be able to use it. The cost of FCDs must be paid with a credit card at the time of purchase, not added to your onboard account. There is no limit to the number of FCDs you can purchase. b) The FCD can be used within a year to make a booking for a future cruise. When an FCD is used, it in most cases it is the entire down payment ($100) needed unless it is time to make payment in full for the new cruise. If you do not use the FCD within a year or have it extended, its cost ($100) will be refunded to the credit card used to purchase it. c) When you take the cruise booked using the FCD, each person who used an FCD will get On Board Credit (OBC) that must be used during that new cruise. The amount of the OBC varies with the type of cabin and the length of the cruise. It can range from $15 for a 3 day cruise in an inside cabin to $150 for a cruise 17 or more days in a mini-suite or full suite. A typical example would be $50 for a 7-day cruise in a balcony cabin. d) If you book a cruise while on a cruise, you will in effect be purchasing an FCD and having that be your deposit unless it is final payment time. e) You can have the booking stay with Princess or have it transferred to your Travel Agent (TA) within 60 days after making a booking while on board. If you have it transferred to a TA that offers discounts or other benefits, your TA will still be able to offer these to you. f) Or you can just purchase FCDs while on the cruise and use them to book a cruise either using your TA or with Princess after returning home. Same OBC would apply for that future cruise. g) With rare exceptions, the pricing on board for a future cruise would be exactly the same with the same promotions as if you made the same exact booking that day while at home. Sometimes, as noted in other posts, a bargain price might be offered if you book the next segment on the ship you are on. It is very rare that a bargain price would be offered on other future cruises unless Princess is desperate to get new bookings. The onboard consultant that found a great discount as reported in post #14 did nothing that any good Princess sales agent or any good TA could not also have done, but not all sales reps or TAs are that good.

If passenger 1 has the Plus package, then passenger 2 must also have it. Passengers 3 and 4 do not have to have it.

Grapefruit juice is available for free at breakfast with a cost at other times unless you have a beverage package. But I do not know if it is juice from red grapefruit.

Agree. One or two screens is all that is needed. That is where we will disagree. Once in the cabin, much more important things (getting ready for dinner, going to sleep, etc.) will be much more on the mind that searching for photos on the TV. And since I have not tried it, I have no idea how easy it is to do on the cabin TV. I do know that when I followed all the prompts on the TV to see my onboard account, it said after about 10 button presses that it could not be accomplished using the TV, that I should use the app instead.

My comments still apply. Looking at and ordering digital copies is more likely if someone walks past the screens in the photo center than deciding to spend time in the cabin looking at them on the in-cabin TV. I am not sure that is the reason there are less photographers. The roaming of dining rooms, etc. was stopped as a Covid prevention practice. I cannot speak as to why they have not resumed. Similar to the placing of chocolates in the cabins each evening. Stopped so there would be less steward presence in cabins due to Covid. Not resumed (in this case, probably to save $$$ by not purchasing the chocolates).