bbburks

As cruising time gets closer do they ever revise the bidding offers they initially gave you — by either revising starting bid price or adding locations? Right now we are 42 days out from embarkation.

I must chime in here. I think it is inexcusable not to receive common courtesy from ship personnel when a passenger becomes ill while cruising. I don’t think I need to reiterate the basics that would entail. And yes, you would think, after all this time, that Princess would have a standard protocol they follow for people who come down with Covid while on the ship. That being said, my husband and I came down with Covid while traveling in May on the Regal to Alaska. For the most part we received more than a satisfactory response and care. Sometime ago PescadoAmarillo mentioned a person that was a superior Princess Hotel General Manager and we were fortunate to have him as said manager on our ship. I think his name might have been Dirk Brand. I believe how we were responded to was reflective of his commitment to excellence and his organizational and leadership skills. Naturally we were disappointed that we got sick with Covid. We tried to be as responsible for ourselves as possible ( short of not cruising) being fully up to date on our vaccinations & by wearing our KN95 masks when inside except when eating or drinking and always sat in the furthest back row during shows. We even had our physicians prescribe Paxlovid to take along with us “just in case”. We felt being prepared would mean we wouldn’t need to use it. Wrong. But we were given a very fair FCC and happily applied it to a future Hawaiian cruise in May.