KarmaCruisers

Picture from our balcony

Haha after the late night room service we went comatose from 2:30am until 1:30pm hahaha got cleaned up and went down to Alfredo’s (only thing open)..WRONG! Full Up and line at least 40 deep. So we’re up here at Salty Dog Grille grabbing something; it’s damn humid outside! also the internet is utter garbage, at year 2000 ISDN speeds.

Forgot to post this; but we actually took picture of first night dinner menu in the MDR.

Here’s the food lol the tacos were gone immediately as was the McMuffin

Well; here we are 3 hours later..penniless..but I put on a solid 6000 points onto my slot card. I lost my $1000 back; and Kris lost $300 more and called it quits (she lost the $300 QUICK after ramen; my $1000 lasted me until just now) now back in the cabin..we’re ordering the best part of princess..free 24/7 room service (with actual food!) ordered: Cesar’s salad PBJ Grilled chicken tacos Chips & Guac Egg McMuffin Two sodas (which oddly show up as costing money; but maybe it just doesn’t link to the plus package smoothly willl post pics when it gets here Caution going forward..we’re gamblers so there will be copious gambling details and hopefully a few jackpot pictures (I seen four hit just tonight; and it’s only the damn first night!)

So..we missed MDR at 7:30..because we weren’t all THAT hungry yet..and because of casino, lol. I was absolutely killing it while my wife was getting killed just as bad. Started with $300 freeplay and cashed out $1000; while wife had the same freeplay but rebought for $300 in slots and $1000 on HeadsUp Hold Em, with nothing to show for it. We just got to buffet for ramen

Ate at Alfredo’s to start Hawaiian pizza and minestrone for Kris Alfredo’s salad and agnolotti for me

So, last we left you, we were out of our mind tired; having been up all night on a red-eye flight (left SFO at 11:30pm). We passed out and just woke up…only because the captain came over the in-room speaker and said due to traffic and 7 ships in port today, our sail-away is pushed back an hour. (I think originally was 4pm) Our suitcase was outside our door; so i grabbed that. Our Cabin stewardess is Daisy and she seems nice. We’re in a BB-Balcony on Baja deck (haha all the B’s) The wifi started out ok before we passed out, at ~2Mbps…however when I just looked it was more like 128Kbps 😞 need to get up and around and get some food as our “dinner”’each night is set for 7:30pm, except for one night we have a comped crown grille for 8:30pm (all we could get) If I didn’t mention it before; cruising on Thanksgiving is a tradition for wife and I; going back to 2019; just us two in our party. Won’t bore everyone with regular pictures of the ship (as you can find those anywhere); only cool things that happen

Will do.

So it’s a new piece of paper..usually they have them on the Patter; but it’s a very tiny little blurb.

lol if you took a large bus to leave; we watched you depart…we sat at those damn benches by the buses from 8:30 until 10!

Just got to our stateroom (11:30am); unfortunately this damn red eye from SFO got her at 8am; and they wouldn’t let us in the door until 10am! we just finished watching the safety video and we’re heading down to muster station to “check in”. here’s a list of the buffet specialities per night.

I can attest to this we do a princess cruise every thanksgiving and it’s always been..show up when you want, show your medallion and get on the ship. I don’t even know our boarding time last year, but we got to port Everglades at 9am and got right on the ship.

We cruise on the sky on Saturday and still no word if yay or nay.

Perfect, this is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks!

I might have answered my own question unless anyone has any better specifics? https://www.princess.com/downloads/pdf/embarkation_port_guides/For_Lauderdale_Info.pdf

We’re boarding day after tommorow…anyone know what Berth she’s in? (To tell the Uber driver where to go) thanks!

For this most recent batch of medallions; they ACTUALLY shipped through a company called DSV (someone else found this, not me) all in the same shipping container from Singapore to Miami. (To be picked up at the port) So YES, technically they DID get “shipped”..just not to YOU, to the PORT.

I think we’re going to stay in Covent Gardens (where we stayed before and enjoyed the area). thanks for the tip about taxi and rail service! REALLY appreciate it!

(Haven’t read the entire thread) we’re booked on a princess cruise out of Southhampton next June; having been to London/northern England before, the train struck me as the best option (we enjoyed riding from London up to Leeds) Could this same thing be used to go from London -> Southhampton? (I assume the Waterloo Line) When we were there last Ubers were easy to get..but can the same be said about Southhampton? (Ie: ride the train down to Southhampton then transfer from Train Station to Port using Uber) thanks in advance!

Fligster! Haven’t seen you post on VMB lately so I had wondered what you were up to..cruising now 😛 (I’m Timspeed over on VMB) debark is ALWAYS a nightmare in LBC..I’ve always just chalked it up to California idiotic people.

This will be our third Princess thanksgiving cruise (would have had another but the shutdown) We really don’t notice that many kids on board..but the CD DOES call it out every time (“There is THIS many junior cruisers onboard this week”)

We bid the minimum on an upgrade from a BB balcony to a “deluxe balcony”…any idea when I should know if I got it or not? (It was $35 pp, for a 7 day thanksgiving on the Sky)

To reply to this..when I went and reserved it on the app..it was no-charge (and showed it used the credit)

I can’t remember (went on Sky Princess for last thanksgiving)..but IIRC, the buffet had a Ramen Station on the First? Night..anyone know for certain what night it is? (On a 7-day voyage) We’re big ramen fans and would definitely like to have it over eating in the MDR or “regular” buffet. (From what I recall, it’s where they do the “Steamers” pop-up) Thanks in advance!