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But you had to buy the dinner, either by itself or by having it as part of a full suite benefit.

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You do not have to lose $20, just have to use $20. Once you have bet $20 you can get the coupon's $10 even if you won $$$ with your $20. Whatta deal.

And they are no longer physical booklets delivered to your cabin on embarkation day. They are digital and you get a link to seeing them before the cruise.

My report from a few years ago shows how the trains were at that time. Any carryon had to be at your feet. Some people have posted that there was some room on an unused seat for carryons, but that may not be true on all tours. I think they no longer use train cars with the tables, but have regular train seats for all.

The bigger the ship, the more passengers competing for the limited tour opportunities available.

See, sometimes those in Australia are treated just like those in the USA.

That was the only coupon in the 2022 group of coupons which did not require first spending money. Below is what was in the 2022 coupons. I have not seen the 2023 list yet.

Like the two glass grand pianos on an atrium landing as depicted when the current Royal Princess was first announced. o "Crooners Lounge & Bar (piano bar with 2 glass grand pianos)" o "Evening entertainment features live piano music with requests and name that tune elements. Here they also offer an enticing menu of 75 martinis, plus entertainers at spectacular dueling glass pianos."

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Thanks. Usually in that situation we would move some stuff on our own (for example, safe contents) as soon as the new cabin was vacant and would thus need access to both cabins at the same time.

If you are able to be seated in the same area each meal, you will have the same waitstaff. But if that waiter's area is not available when you arrive, you will be seated in a different waiter's area.

If you are changing cabins, will the Medallion be able to open both cabins for several hours on turnaround day or does it just change to the new cabin at a certain time?

If with a single booking number, it would be for the whole cruise. If with two booking numbers, there would be a separate invite for each segment. Even if you have a successful bid for each segment, it would not necessarily be to the same cabin.

I guess that people who do not own smart phones can no longer enter the cruise terminal.

Some of the finest restaurants on land use coffee syrup. Just like coffee beans, coffee syrup is available in different levels of quality. Suspicion is that Princess is not purchasing the top quality coffee syrup.

Sky suites only it appears. Only it looks like to sky suites. Most Princess ships do not have Sky Suites.

Are you saying a Princess employee reserved a seat at the pool for you?

It could be just a contest to win a Princess cruise.

The extension is not DINE on all the ships. If it is not DINE, it is difficult to call from any phone outside of a cabin.

What is in red above is how I interpreted it.

I can understand if the "$1500 us compensation for missing the tour that an FCC is appropriate. But the actual cost of the tour should be refunded (quickly) to the original form of payment, not as an FCC. For cruises that were cancelled during the pandemic, Princess did offer people two choices. Choice 1) Receive any cruise fare or deposit $$$ back to the original form of payment. or Choice 2) Receive any cruise fare or deposit as a refundable FCC and also receive a non-refundable FCC as compensation for this disappointment of having the cruise cancelled. The amount of the non-refundable FCC varied, depending of what the offer was when the cruise was cancelled. The pandemic related cancellations did take many months to process the setting up of the FCDs or sending of refunds.This delay was in part caused by the massive number of cancelled cruises to process. However, in my opinion, the MP cancellations should be (although they do not seem to be) processed relatively quickly as the number of cancellations is not that large.

Once you have provided a booking number, the representative knows exactly how much cruising you have done on Princess. Only if you have not provided the booking number would I see any reason to have a rep ask this question.

Those who do not book the Plus or Premier fare: a) Have a daily crew appreciation amount ($16 and up depending on cabin type per person per day) added daily to their on board account. This covers tips for cabin stewards, all dining room staff, staff that delivers room service and more. So for a 7-day cruise for two people this is a minimum of $224 in tips. b) Have an 18% charge added to every beverage purchase from water to fine wine. So without handing out $$$ or Euros or other currencies, those with and without Plus and Premier fares are paying tips. Of course, some people feel a need to hand out additional tips, but many feel the crew appreciation already being paid is sufficient.

The difference is that under TD, nobody who wanted AT would be assigned to the TD dining room pre-cruise. One could book a cruise at the very last moment and still usually get TD. With DMW, even if you book months in advance, when you try to replicate the TD experience by requesting a specific time in a bulk request at 5:30 or 6:00 (vs. a day by day request) there often is no such reservation available because DMW reservations at various times have not left the time you want available for the entire cruise anymore. So if, per your example, those 400 people tried to book their dining time at 5:30-6:00 several weeks before the cruise (for example at final payment time when many people first become eligible to make reservations), people with Anytime Dining wishes will have filled many of those time slots. Now if you are elite and book your cruise the day bookings for the cruise open, you can make your dining reservation then and get the time you want for the entire cruise.