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I just renewed mine earlier this month. I did not pay for any priority or expedited service. I had my new one within two weeks from the day I sent it in.

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No. Some items will show up more than once but presented in different ways and with different sides.

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I'm booked in this hotel also. I'm glad to hear it is so close to Tivoli.

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For anyone in the Kansas city area they have opened up appointment times on the next three Saturday afternoons at the airport. I think it is only during September. Maybe they are trying to catch up with the requests for appointments.

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I had 2 cruises booked and my fare went down about $450 on each. That plus the free gratuities and shipboard credit really made my day. I think this is the first time I've ever been able to take advantage of one of these promotions

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From Coral:

"Technically Omaha doesn't have a site. Both Omaha and Lincoln have had "global entry events" for a few days or so where a travel agency has brought agents into town and hosted an event so that those of us who live her can interview easily. The Lincoln one was in June and I think the Omaha one was in July (but filled up in early June). It was just for a few days.

I knew that KC does have an office but it is only open Tuesday and Thursday mornings the last time I checked and just opened in May.

I agree with you. I live in LNK and for the most part, until the KC office opened, I was probably 7-8 hours from a site. I see people complaining about traveling 30 minutes to a site. Try 8 hours!

When I went to the LNK site for my interview, there were people from Nashville as they couldn't get in where they live. Go figure.

I wish you luck. I just lucked out and got approved and one of the last interviews in LNK while they were here.

BTW - please note that you need to "reserve an interview site within 30 days." The interview may be 8 months out but reserve something and then keep checking KC for cancellations or find somewhere where you will be traveling and interview out there."

Thanks for your information. I didn't know the Omaha sites were just temporary events. I have relatives there so Omaha would have been an easy place for me. I know Kansas City is supposed to have interviews on Tuesdays and Thursdays and lists it when you first start the Global Entry process. But when you actually go to set up an interview this is what you get:

"Currently there are no available appointments at this enrollment center. Please check later for opening or choose another enrollment center." In red print.

The next nearest center in St. Louis and there is nothing available until March. I do have an appointment made in Minneapolis for December but Minneapolis is 450 miles from here and I doubt it will be worth it to drive up there in December.

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Interesting. In May they announced Tuesday/Thursday mornings when they opened the site. On their website now it lists Tuesday/Thursday afternoons and early evenings 3-7.

 

https://www.cbp.gov/travel/trusted-traveler-programs/global-entry/enrollment-centers/missouri

 

They should open all week due to the demand.

Right nowMCI doesn't show even a calendar where you could.sigh up for an interview 6 months from now.

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I realize Canada is a large country however I thought the global entry was a US border and customs program. I would have expected the majority of the interview sites to be within the United States.

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I filled out the application on August 27 and received the approval notice September 4. When I went online to set up the appointment I found it was impossible. I live in the Kansas City area and the airport was supposed to be a place where you could go but it said no appointments available. It didn't even show a calendar. It just said nothing available in red print. So I checked Omaha. There were supposed to be two locations there and both were the same way – nothing available. The closest with any appointments was St. Louis which is 250 miles away with nothing available until December. After that the next closest is Minneapolis which is 450 miles away. I'm beginning to think I wasted $100 on the application. I will check back every day to see if anything opens up in Kansas City or Omaha but as of right now they aren't even showing a future calendar. What I don't understand is why there are 10 places in Canada where you can go for global entry but nothing within 250 miles of where I live in the Kansas City area. If I am doing this wrong someone please tell me what I'm doing wrong.

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Thanks for doing the live from the Caribbean Princess. I'm looking forward to reading all about your cruise.

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Fortunately these threads will only need to continue until October 8th [emoji33] We will then know if Captain Oliver really knew what was going to be done to his ship during drydock. Of course major changes in plans do occur during drydocks as evidenced by the only partial revisions of the Star in 2008 and the Sapphire (in 2011?) There were deck plans of the revised Sapphire on the Princess website before the drydock and many of the planned changes were not completed.

I was assured by Princess customer service after that dry dock ended that the Crown Grill had been added to the Nsapphire. Imstillll looking for it 3 years later.

 

I was assured by Princess customer service that the Crown Grill had been added on the Sapphire after the drydock. I am still looking for it three years later.

 

 

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I talked to a Princess customer service rep today who said it does apply to singles. Guess we'll know for sure on Tuesday.

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Only if you book the hotel through Princess. If you booked through them it should show up on the itinerary.

Email says Ed Perrin will be captain on the Regal from Oct. 22 to Nov. 6, 2016.

Called yesterday as our OBC had not been credited. Usually takes a couple of hours to a couple of days. I was given 661-753-0182 as an alternate number. I haven't tried it yet.

 

 

 

Smooth sailing.

This is the number I used on Thursday. It was my second attempt to fax the information. I called Princess and was told this is the correct number, however, my credit still has not shown up on the cruise Personalizer. I plan to call again tomorrow.

I faxed a request on Monday, Aug. 8, and when it hadn't shown up on the Personalizer by today I called Princess. The woman I talked to told me they were working on faxes received August 9. She looked through whatever they look through and could not find mine so I had to fax it again. I did that this afternoon. She did not mention anything about the fax machine being down. I just checked and the credit still hasn't been added so I guess I will have to fax it again or snail mail it.

I probably should know this but where do you find flyer talk?

It's a waste of a channel. )

Not if you are in an inside cabin.

The dark chocolate square one is my favorite. I always take them home too because eating them at home makes the cruise seem a little bit longer.

Princess has to have the most inept IT department of any company on the web. I can login and go to my personalizer but when I try to look at a specific reservation, it wants me to log in again. I have been having this problem all weekend and again today. I have tried all three of my browsers IE, firefox and chrome. I have even tried on my laptops and they all have the same problem. The way I can see a specific cruise is to use the signin to the right with my name, birth date and booking number. Nice Princess.

I've been having the same problem since Friday. I login, it wants me to login again, I do and it still wants me to keep logging in. Gets really old after a while.

Beautiful photos. Thank you.

If your itinerary includes the Orkney Islands (Kirkwall), I would highly recommend visiting Skara Brae, either thru Princess or by private tour.

 

It is the site of a Neolithic village (from about 3000 BC).

 

I did the BI cruise last year and I agree with this. Skara Brae was one of the most interesting places on the whole trip. Be sure to walk around the whole area.

My favorite is the chocolate flourless cake served in any of the dining rooms(not specialty) on the first night only. I Don't go to the buffet ,so I have no idea if it's offer there ,but if it is I might have to start going to the buffet. Wish they would offer this after the first night, but they don't.

 

Julie

I've seen it in the buffet, but I don't remember if it was the first day or later.

TB-GCS!!!! Twice-baked Goat Cheese Souffle!!! I have written poetry about it!

Same here. Best thing on the menu.

What do you have to do to renew it? Do you have to go for another interview?