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Princess only has one speed to offer. And they call it "the best WI-FI at sea."

In December I printed out the one page summary and used the mini-coupons from that summary with no problem on the Ruby..

No. The forward elevators do go to deck 6 where there is a path through the art gallery to the atrium and the deck 6 center dining room. It is the deck 6 aft elevators that cannot be used to get you to the center dining room on deck 6.

Lousy programming?

Did they give you the minutes? Or was the survey completed at Princess.com which does not require using your minutes on the ship?

Since you have a single booking number, you can only bid on the cruise that booking number is for, both segments together. As is normal when a cruise can be booked multiple ways (as one cruise with a single booking or as two cruses with two bookings numbers), cabins are available only for the way of booking. Thus cabins available on the individual segments cannot be booked for the B2B as one booking and vice versa, When it comes to bidding, I do not know if Princess has the same divisions of cabin availability, but I expect so.

That is different than what it has been on other Princess ships which has been $15 price limit and, as you had, none of the new stuff.

We have always both received one.

That is what happens when Princess is providing the OBC such as the OBC associated with a FCD. But if you give them a gift card in US$ it will be converted to Australia $ using whatever poor exchange rate Princess currently uses.

If you want your $10 back, the only option is to cancel the order and make it again. But based on posts in another thread, it is likely even with the package it may say it is still charging you $10 for it, but these posts say at the end the charge card you enter is never charged.

Witness all the people who book specialty dining even though they have already paid for dinner in the main dining room.

Even if your booking is with a TA, you can call Princess and a competent rep can look at the history of your booking, see you once had approved SH OBC, and then restore it to the booking.

My guess is available in the boutiques, not at the dining area.

Reservations are at 20 minute intervals, so there is no 6:30 reservation. If you do not want 7 PM, your earlier choices would be 6, 6:20 and 6:40.

Since the reserved area is only for production shows, most nights I would not expect any reserved seating. If not available on the production show evenings, then Princess sold something they could not deliver.

Don't know. I was giving an example, not actually trying to make a booking at the moment. I do have a booking in another type cabin at the entry level and it is a GTY and I believe at the time I made the booking there were available cabins in that category level. But my TA said only GTY was able to be booked.

The problem is that they are making all cabins in the entry level for each category only GTY. If I want to pick, for example, E121 on the Emerald Princess, an obstructed view oceanview cabin that has a good view, I am not able to do so because the entire category is reserved for Let Princess Select Your Cabin. There is just no way to book the cabin I want if that is the cabin I want. This lower price option means I cannot get the cabin I want in that category. Not at a lower price. Not at a higher price. Not at any price.

I was not clear in my question. You say there are plenty of open cabins but also said on new releases you could not find them. So how do you find there are plenty of open cabins if you could not find them with a normal Princess search for 2-occupant cabins?

Where have you searched to locate the open cabins that were designed for only two occupants?

When you get that response the number of available 2-person cabins is zero so you are offered the opportunity to book the GTY. Princess will accept a certain number of GTYs for the category and level and if that number is filled, the category/level will be marked "sold out." So Princess is not playing a trick by not allowing you to select a specific 2-person cabin. None is available at that moment. As you point out, cabins at that category/level may be available for 3 or 4 people, but that is not what you searched for.

They can do that even if you selected a cabin and managed to have it marked no upgrade.

I would not exactly call it a charge for picking your own cabin. What Princess has done is take the entry level cabin for each type cabin (inside, oceanview, balcony,etc.) and made it unavailable for selecting a cabin. However the next high category of that cabin is available for selecting a cabin and sometimes also as a GTY which is essentially the same as Princess selects your cabin. Example: Entry level Balcony cabin BF can only be booked with Princess selecting a cabin and with the deposit non-refundable. But Balcony cabins BE. BD, BC, BB and BA can be booked with the ability to select a cabin and often with the ability to just make it a GTY booking, all with a refundable deposit. So what has basically changed is that it you want to select a cabin, your must not book the entry level cabin. What I do not know is whether the price difference between the entry level cabin (example BF) and the next level (example BE) is about the same as it was previously or if Princess has made the difference greater, either by giving a bigger discount for the entry level cabin or by raising the prices for the higher level cabins. I am not saying that I like this new policy (and definitely not defending it), especially the non-refundable deposit aspect of it as that means even if you wanted to switch to a lower priced new promotion or even switch to a higher priced cabin category, you would lose your deposit on the original booking.

And everyone gets the opportunity to order a beverage and never have it delivered.

Many vegetarians are not vegan and thus will consume animal products such as milk, eggs, butter, but not consume the animal itself such as pork, beef, fish. If a vegetarian wants to eat at the Crown Grill, I suggest going there in advance and speak to the headwaiter about what vegetarian alternatives they can prepare that would make the cover charge seem worthwhile.

But it is not direct to the gangway. You still have to go through security at the terminal. Even if this is faster, it is misleading to say it is direct from the off site to the gangway.