Ombud

I am a solo cruiser 90% of the time. I never find it difficult. 1st: there's a solo group that meets each evening and often for lunch. 2nd: people are really friendly. There's mahjong, other games every morning, crafts, and trivia .... just join in at any table. 3rd: if you don't want to fine alone then tell the DR that you want to share a table. Conversation flows (I prefer to be on a 2 top next to 2 tops. We eat "together" but each table goes at its own speed)

@dixiejen there are some CVPs who really know there stuff, like mine. Once you find a good one .... stick with them

How on earth did you get transferred to the O.N.E. Princess Promotions Dept?? My CVP just sent me to 1 person where I bought 2 FCD. No mention of what kind of room I would buy (red flag #1), need to book a particular cruise (red flag #2), or multiple points of contact (red flag #3). Just "how many FCD would you like and you know they have less OBC than what you buy onboard "

Oops forgot to answer: I called my CVP & bought 2 way back on 7/26/23. I submitted the unused one on my next cruise and bought 2 more bumping up my OBC ONBOARD FCD: 15-150 OBC WELCOME HOME FCD: 15-125 OBC

This the "WELCOME HOME" promo / offer to buy FCD that has less OBC than if bought onboard. You get it if you have a 'recently' completed voyage. Nothing new. @dixiejen did you recently disembark?

Yes they updated the website a few weeks ago to push the 2 pkgs: Plus & Premier. The price you quoted is for the entire booking. i do believe they have cans of coke. If so, and if I had a pkg, I'd just stock my fridge with cans & water asap using up my 15 beverages a day (I'd never go thru that many so probably fill it up the 1st few days then not be at all concerned .... prefer my tap water with ice & lemon)

Is there any benefit to solos?? I found their stated hotels higher than I book and O.N.E. less willing to work with me. In fact, one O.N.E. rep actually apologized stating she had the same issue when she was assigned to work on RCCL!!

Nothing really. It flakes out on various things from time to time, but mostly works just fine, like everything tech. Some people just don't like new stuff and some people like to complain that all this "new stuff" impedes their ability to relax and enjoy themselves somehow. The medallion is essentially a key card and the app is not required for anything at all, so, what other conclusion can be drawn? I guess I'm one of those luddites bc I still use the ocean concierge website that originally came with the medallion (circa 2018). Tried the interim app and it didn't add anything new to Ocean Concierge and seemed complicated in getting patter / excursions / reviewing bill / buying next voyage, will look at the new app in April but I can do everything without any glitches on the original. Why fix what isn't broken??

Thanks. I'll look up that review. Yes E403-E433 is not obstructed looking out which is why I picked E421. This will be my longest cruise ever. 2nd only to my B2B

Welcome to Cruise Critic! Tell me about Decks 5-7. Sorry the room was so bad How is the Royal otherwise? Boarding for 21 nights in E421. Hoping to be able to stay there .... midship low floor .... and I guess I'm one of the few that like the sensor light.

CVPs can refare while changing rooms. I went from a cove balcony to a regular balcony for $100 and kept my same booking number. If I had booked myself online and canceled original booking it would've been a higher price Keeping flights while changing booking # is called a "lift and shift" which all CVPs (and TAs maybe?) can do

1883 posts but a lot of email conversations back and forth too. We have 8 sea days so yeah trying to arrange stuff On our last TA almost everyone showed up. But those also have a lot of sea days. That seems to be the difference

@greenbeanie cutting to bottomline: call 1-800-901-1172 or 1-661-753-0303. You will be assigned a CVP (who you don't ever have to use again) and ask to have the refund processed. I did a test run on a $449.41 overpayment due to flight cost decrease. It was still showing an overpayment over a month later. So I called my CVP and she transferred it immediately to my Sept voyage. In the same call I had a much smaller overpayment on another voyage which I asked to have refunded. Yep. Showed up next day at USAA. Bottom line: I think the refund process is broken so call the correct office! THEN AND ONLY THEN stay there or ask at the next Meet and Greet for a good TA

Just like @SCX22 and @MacMadame reported, after I refare my ezair or refare I notify my CVP where I want the refund to go: my credit card or another already booked cruise. If my credit card then it shows pending on the bank app the next day, if another cruise it's credited immediately. Can a TA do that or they would have to contact Princess as well?

I really hate to put this one out there as she might have left, but I only get responses from grouponboardservices@princesscruises.com when I send to: Allison Thompson athompson@princesscruises.com (661) 284-4432 I'm setting up 1 for April 9th where we've been assigned to a room with max capacity of 100 & it's currently at 171. But if anyone else is in the same boat as me, Loyalty and Events person onboard will just set up signs at the old place (probably directing them to Vista Lounge).

I get 2 minibars???? Sweet! But I'd pay for wine by the glass anyway

I've booked the 2 segments as 1 cruise so I'll find out in 2 months whether they charge me or not I guess ...

Thats good @Steelers36. I've only been stopped once and it was inside the terminal immediately after the luggage scanner. Never saw anyone checking onboard

If I go on an Australian cruise which can be booked as multiple segments or single voyage can I bring on a bottle of wine for each segment? (I did when going out of San Pedro)

Wrong thread

I notice they have a kettle, will I have one?

At least she returned them, or the relative did after borrowing them

So I'm old....but I was close....only missed it by 10%....🤣 Yeah 🤑 .... Princess and Radiqal need their cut. It's all about the profits

3% like the cc companies?

Yep...when it first came out I think it was like 7% they had to pay to princess. I'd rather stay in the blue lane than to give the app company my credit information to keep when they've had over 6 years to get the app right and still haven't done it and starts all over with another app. The owner of a small store in Ketchikan told me it was 17%. If 7% passes through to the passenger as OBC then Princess retains 10% as their cut.