Outerdog

I can see someone unfamiliar with the Princess fare packages being curious about what a group chooses to do with them. If a majority of posters indicated that they find value in them, that might be good info for someone starting their research and planning. On the other hand, if a majority seems to think it's a total ripoff, well, that might inform some decisions too. The dynamics of a forum make getting a good sample challenging. Here's a data point for OP: We get the Plus package on 7 or 10 day voyages. We have a couple of 5 day trips in the books and planned and no packages for those.

Have a look at the deck plans: https://www.princess.com/deckPlans.do?shipCode=EX&version=1

Agreed. But you know how these things go. It's an easy $3k in revenue to drag 15 or 20 pax around the ship and down a couple of crew corridors. I do know that years before covid, NCL nix'd the bridge tour portion of their Behind the Scenes tour, citing "security reasons". I wasn't following along with Princess closely enough to know if they were still showing the bridge up until the covid stop or not. I'd be surprised if the bridge portion came back. To me, that alone is worth the price of admission. Although I will admit the 150 preparations of potato I witnessed on the last galley tour I mentioned above was pretty impressive!

100% this.

Shorex is where we've historically purchased the ship tours. I'm not a fan of "never" but dude at Shorex knew what the tour was and couldn't say if it would ever be back. He did not seem optimistic. Like all things covid, perhaps Princess will re-evaluate the ship tour when they realize there is money they can squeeze out.

Nope, gone. I asked the Shorex desk about it a few weeks back. As R&J points out, some of the demonstrations include a brief galley tour (the Italian one they do in the Theater comes to mind).

There are a couple of bags in your stateroom. You place your laundry in the bags. There is a little ticket you fill out with a count of your items. Place all of this on the bed when you go out for breakfast and the stew will pick up. Expect it back in the next day or two. There are some timelines for next-day, but I would be prepared not to get it next-day even if you hit the timeline. A charge will appear on your folio, then a credit, like so: This is not them giving you tokens to doit yourself!

I canceled one a couple of weeks ago and the agent put me on hold to talk to a supervisor. When she came back, she stated the supervisor had approved the cancellation. Bizarre.

Off Ruby a couple weeks ago and Sunday was game day for sure. Games all day in Explorer's Lounge. It was a party in there, bar open, people wearing jerseys, sports bar vibe. Thursday Night Football on MUTS.

Thanks for the reply. It was port side. Port aft corner where the ship struck the dock in San Francisco. They completed a repair to allow the ship to sail, but it still needed the finishing touches. Damage: "Repair":

Did they fix the big ass dent?

See that white puck? That's a Medallion sensor. They are in every cabin and on every balcony.

Which may not be all it's cracked up to be. You're going to have a bad time, for example, if you are susceptible to illness from the ship's motion and Princess moves you from a BA on deck 8 to a DW (deluxe balcony) up on 16 fwd.

Just to add, the assist folks wear blue vests with a large "wheelchair" symbol on the backs.

Yes. Also, pool towels make fantastic souvenirs.

10:30 to 11:30 is probably optimal.

100%. Bag drop off is at the curb. Just hand your bags to a porter and walk away.

It's been there. When the Horizon Court main buffet is closed, they will leave snacks and whatnot out in the Cafe Caribe.

This is absolutely not true. Some Kindle devices lack ability to authenticate via a captive portal, which is what the MedallionNet log in page is all about. Kindle devices like Kindle Fire which have a proper web browser and the Kindle App on iPad, for example, can access Amazon's servers and download books just fine on MedallionNet with an internet package activated. The correct statement is "Some Kindle devices can't authenticate to MedallionNet's captive portal."

Yeah, even our stew has told us to put it out in the corridor.

Luggage are placed in the corridor at the crew's direction and are promptly removed. Scooters are placed in the corridor contrary to crew's direction. Piss poor comparison.

Since the corridor and elevator lobby scooters appear to be lost or abandoned, I roll them down and park them in front of Guest Services so their owners have a central location where they can be retrieved at the Lost & Found.

I had to cancel one because we chose another itinerary at the same time. The second one was already booked. I can't be on two ships at once, can I? The rep asked me the same, "why are you cancelling?" They know enough to thank me for being a loyal platinum customer while on the call so they should know that the two bookings are in obvious conflict and the reason for cancelling plain as day. I loathe calling any customer service line these days. It's awful. Sorry for your situation. F*ck cancer. Best of luck to you.

10:30 am - 12:30 pm We drop bags, park in a nearby garage and walk back. Sometimes we'll stop at Pier 23 and get plastered before heading to 27. 🍹 If you are being dropped off, then you can drop bags then head to 23 and get plastered before queueing up. Line is minimal and moves quick. Entire process once joining the line is 10 minutes. Biggest fuss I encounter is getting the person telling people which window to go to to pay attention to open windows and stop chatting with the people in line.