CTGirl

Did you dine in the aft dining room on deck 6. We sat to the left as you come in the two tops. My back was to the walkway but I believe it was your son I would hear when he came in. He sounded exactly like my adult autistic nephew. When I finally saw the person he even had the same gait as my nephew. We are going to be on the Regal in November for a family cruise. It will be the first time my nephew will be on Princesses. My brother normally cruises RC and my nephew loves it. I am very encouraged by your comments. Thank you so much.

I believe I do. I will have to search for it. You can email me at rhyman1951 at gmail dot com.

Hi Fletch. We are on the Grand right now and we are in one of the affected cabins. My advice is to stay away from the Grand. She is definitely showing her age. We spend a lot of time in Explorers. The chais are horrible, they are so bad you can’t really sit gracefully, you sort of fall into them. I am short and I am can just barely see the table in front of me. That is just a small example. The power outage of course is the big issue. We are making do in our smaller cabin but I will not cruise on this ship again.

Princess updated the app for IPhones two days ago. That made the difference for me. If you have an IPhone check to see if your App is up to date.

Yes, thank you. I did see that. I was not specific enough in my comment. I was concentrating more on the confusing time periods before the start of a cruise upon which one should send in a request. Still, the July 31 date is far more than 90 days out. My cruise is In March. I met the guidelines but Princess seems to have changed them without letting anyone know.

It is weird. I have both documents you posted, and I read them carefully. I could not find a restriction on how early you can send in the request. But I did find that the request had to be sent in no later than 2 weeks under the restrictions list on the request form, three weeks prior to cruise departure date in the first paragraph of the Annual Report and 4 weeks prior to your sail date in the third paragraph of the Annual Report. Like you I always send in my request as soon as I book. In the past my request was granted within the hour. I think those days are gone.

I had been trying for two months to get the SHB for my cruise next March. I must have sent in five or six faxes and emails. I never got any replies and the OBC was not added to my account. About three weeks ago I was able to talk to one woman who told me that the SHB could not be applied until 90 days out. I told her that was not true and explained the whole history of why the SHB could be applied at any time. She did not believe me, and she was not very nice. I asked her to ask her supervisor. The supervisor said the same thing. I was not happy. So, I sent in a few more requests and still didn't hear anything. So last week I called again. I was on hold for 2 hours before someone picked. She had to search a bit before she found my request and then she told me that unfortunately Princess was not adding the SHB to accounts more than 90 days out, but she took pity on me and now I finally have it in my account. I am very disappointed in how Princess is handling this situation. If they want to revert back to the 90-day rule make it public so that people know what to do and when to do.

I am debating using a Princess transfer as well to LGA from Brooklyn. May I ask how much it costs in US dollars.

What ship are you on now? I am asking because I am wondering if the poor internet is a fleet wide issue. Prior to the pandemic we had cruised on several Medallion Net cruises and the internet was wonderful, super amazing even, especially when comparing it to non Medallion Net internet. I just did my first post restart cruise the end of March and the internet was horrible. And I hate to tell you this but I was on the Enchanted. I am planning on getting the package for the two cruises I am doing prior to the TA as I did not book with Princess Plus. I booked the TA with Princess Plus. If you want to hold off purchasing your internet until after August 16, you can email me (to remind me) then and I will let you know how it is behaving.