ladychater

Oof, I don't know that you'll find much. I just got off the Diamond Princess. The problem is that, even if you have a bus that can take you around, pretty much every shrine requires walking up stairs. Most of them are unpaved or unevenly paved and stairs seem to always be involved. My big takeaway from Japan was that it's not a great place for those eitb limited mobility. I kept thinking that my Mom would never be able to see so many of the places that we went to.

I shouldn't have to be "diligent.". It would be ever so simple for Princess to label the food. Then the servers and customers would know what to eat and what not to. I feel like you're being a defensive of Princess because this isn't an issue that affects you. Don't reply to me, I don't care what you have to say, as you don't care about my concerns.

I did this. No waiter I've encountered has been aware (I couldn't get the same table every night). They don't know what food is or isn't vegetarian. Ask 2 waiters, you'll get two different answers. I'm telling you, Princess does not care. If you have food allergy/religious/ethnical issues with eating certain foods, this is not the place you want to be.

I'm sitting on a Princess cruise right now and it is not a good place to be a vegetarian/vegan. It's day 2 of the cruise. Last night we only got the vegan menu because I told the waiter that I was sure there was a vegan menu, he then asked someone else and they brought it. It had 1 starter and 1 entree. In the MDR, menus have a symbol meaning vegetarian that they put beside the foods. But what you see on the menu and what you see on the app don't match, so which is right? I would think the Caesar salad isn't vegetarian, but the menu says it is. In the Dining room I was told that the miso soup wasn't vegetarian. In the buffet, a server told me it is. Does anyone working here know or care??? There's no marking in the buffet to let you know if food is vegetarian or not. You have to guess or ask a server who just looks at it and guesses. It's awful. Princess clearly doesn't care. And on this ship (Diamond) you get a different table and waiter every night, so please don't tell me to work it out with the waiter.

Thanks. It looks like they have fewer than 100 lockers in the whole terminal, and many of them are quite small. I don't think I want to depend on availability of that.

Hi, I'm going on the Diamond Princess on April 7th and I'm wondering if anyone has images of the Princess Patters from any Japanese ports. They provide good information, like the exact port location and information about available shuttle buses that I can't find anywhere online. If anyone could post them, particularly for Sakata, Aomori, Mt. Fuji and Yokohama, I'd be very grateful. Thanks, LadyChater

I recall that there were nachos (I ordered them often). Couldn't tell you about anything else.

It really depends on how much you drink and how much time you're going to spend on the ship. I don't drink much and will be on a 10 day Japanese cruise with only 2 sea days. There's no way I'll drink $29 worth of beverages on most days, so I'll just buy wifi and drinks a la carte.

I was on the Wonder on May 2022. While the Solarium Bistro was free, it was just a Mediterranean buffet. I never saw lobster (and we ate there on elegant night because we were too exhausted for a long meal). I don't think you'd want your lobster off of a buffet, would you? Cause even if they had it, that's what it would be.

In May I got an invitation to come to the Effy store for a free gift. It was a tiny red crystal solitaire on a chain. I doubt the chain is silver. This was on the Wonder. I wore it to dinner, as I had brought any necklaces, but other than that, I doubt I'll wear it again.

I was on the Discovery Princess on the Sept 4th Alaska cruise. I was surprised at how underwhelming the "production" shows were. Both of them were just folks singing and dancing to songs we all know. No special effects or acrobatics or anything flashy at all. Rock Opera had some fancy costumes but the other show (set I. A coffee shop) didn't even have that. I was on Carnival Magic a month earlier and their shoes had lasers and special effects and all sorts of cool stuff - and Carnival is meant to be the budget cruise line. Princess was a real let down. The singers were quite good but the shows felt really cheap.

It's too far out to have any idea what testing requirements will be, but I'll say this: the hold times for proctored tests are taking much longer than they were, probably because eMed is scaling back it's business as testing becomes less and less of a thing. Other than cruises (and only very few of them) I don't know anything that's requiring a proctored test anymore.

Just got off the Magic on 8/15. There was a lone steel drum player who would play along to backing tracks. He was mostly on the pool deck and sometimes in the Atrium. The music was really nice.

O, the lox were free. I never paid for the tower in the past, either. It was free on the Panorama.

Yes, I saw that during/after the two Deck Parties on the Magic's 8/11 sailing. The pici de Gallo with chips was a delightful surprise. TASTY!