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We are 10 days out before cruise and no Medallions or email!

Tipping "out of control" is going to a fast casual restaurant where the person taking your order gives you a choice via touch screen for an 18%-20% tip, just for taking your order...  nothing else. You pick up the order when ready and seat yourself. I have run into two places like this lately and it seems to be the trend. That's BS as the employers need to pay the employees what they work for rather than having the customers subsidize their pay.

Has anyone else experienced this and what do you think of it.

Getting off a cruise early and have a late 7:30pm flight from FLL, so we need to find a place to hold up for several hours (with luggage) before we can head to airport.

Any ideas would be appreciated.

Another option...

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We were able to pick ours on American over a month ago with our cruise in November. Not our first choice of airline but I think all of them are having "issues."

12 minutes ago, Eglesbrech said:

I would be very interested in hearing when the right place and the right time are? When and where are your friends eating, what show time are they going to?

When the management acknowledge freely that there is an issue, there is an issue.

 

I would like to know this too as your review has been very clear on what is happening on the sky and does not lean on personal bias. Keep up the info please.

Eglesbrech

Thank you for reporting your experience on the Sky. It is most helpful as we are booked later in the summer, but I must say things look bleak compared the way it used to be. Ugh!

On 5/22/2022 at 3:39 AM, Dreamer333 said:

I’m surprised at the negative comments regarding the medallion app. By no means am I a techy but I love the app. I’ll soon be on my 3rd cruise since the app has been implemented and it’s been very positive. 
For those who have not cruised with it yet, you may be pleasantly surprised how easy it is to use once you get on board and get the hang of it. 

To me it's an easy app "to get the hang of" but the problem is in the lack of functionality, especially when on the ship. There are numerous people that have said it was not working well on board and that when they did order a drink or food it never showed or with a food order it said "preparing" and then cancelled.

Or maybe the ones that have had no problems while on board have not chimed in here except for you.

1 hour ago, spunks said:

The phones worked fine. The issue was that unless you knew the number to dial you were out of luck. I had 3 friends on the cruise, but I did not know their cabin numbers so I could not call them. Guest services would not answer so I could not get any number from them. All I could do is call my cabin and leave a message for my wife. She could not stay in the cabin because she was continuing to stand in line at Guest Services or at the internet center. The internet did not function so I could not use that. The Medallion App was non functional, so on and so on....

After reading all that you have written about your Princess experience, it clearly shows the indecisiveness of the Princess crew and their lack of caring. And we keep hearing again and again the uselessness of the Medallion app when on board. A few have said it worked but it seems like the minority.

All I can say is sorry for your absolute nightmare on Princess. Hope you have recovered.

After reading all these remarks about the way quarantined passengers were treated by Princess, I am so disgusted.  Am I alone feeling this way?

SHAME ON PRINCESS!

1 minute ago, prmssk said:

I hear you... I keep opening the app, hoping for a different result.  I think that is the very definition of insanity.  🤣  This cruise can't come soon enough.

I totally agree... it is just insane! And we are more than ready for our cruise after having three cruises cancelled in the last few years, including our beautiful 10 day anniversary cruise. Ugh...

2 minutes ago, prmssk said:

It appears many, many people turned yellow lane today (including us) and we can't figure out why because none of the sections will load.  I think something happened in the system overnight.

Oh no, maybe it's another Princess app update. I just can't look no more as my OCD is in the red lane.

Indeed this is the most insane thing as it keeps changing us from blue to green, then blue and now after weeks of green/blue we are now yellow. What the heck! I am not touching this app any more and will "deal" with it when we get to the dock.

I think it's designed to drive you crazy 🥴

On 5/10/2022 at 3:27 PM, Ashland said:

Try Hyatt Place near 17th Street they offer a shuttle from FLL to their hotel for $2.00 per room reservation. Best pricing will be through their membership or ValueTrips.com

Just want to say THANK YOU for your tip on ValueTrips.com!! Saved us some $$$$$ over what we had booked already.👍

14 minutes ago, Happy2cruise said:

Excuse the dumb question but by deleting and reinstalling the app, is all the info on app deleted also?  Thanks!

Just had to delete my wife's and after reinstalling it updates after putting in your booking number. So no your info is not deleted as it downloads from Princess servers.

On 5/22/2022 at 6:26 AM, majortom10 said:

This is the 3rd cruise we have done using Medallion App the first being pre pandemic and it has never worked consistently if at all on any of them and IMO is totally useless and should be dumped. Unfortunately Princess will not do this they will persist with an inept Medallion rather than admit that they are wrong. Our next cruise is 2nd June had new update this week and now I was in Green Lane but now in Blue Lane and says I have not booked my arrival group which I booked weeks ago. Tried to rebook arrival group and says it is not available only group available is group C and wife is in group A. Totally useless piece of equipment.

One of the most prevalent problems with the app seems to be consistently keeping the inputted information. That said, I think that is what's causing the blue lane/green lane switching back and forth. I know with us it lost what country we are from, so it bumped us to the blue lane. Ugh!

Maybe it works better when on the ship... who knows. I will only put the required info in and not the suggested, so as to not complicate errors.

19 hours ago, eclue said:

 will just show my cards when I get there.....I am tired of this app stuff.

 

I'm with you on that!

14 minutes ago, prmssk said:

To be honest, I made a screen shot of my green lane, boarding group, and QR boarding code before I updated the app.  I also feared I could lose my good boarding time with an update to the app.

 

The new app seems just as slow, spends a lot of time with the circle spinning as it loads a page, and still makes my phone heat up with much use.  I'm not sure what part is the improvement.

Agreed! The app is problematic and we are not doing anything anymore that is not absolutely required on the app. Been on the phone with Princess a few times to get info corrected because it will not save the changes made. If we don't need to upload vaccine info on the app we will validate at the dock then. Now shows red exclamation for my wife so will need to call again!

Getting the global entry sounds like a real process, and we live in a very small town and would have to travel over a hundred plus miles for an interview. Ugh.

Is it really worth it?

How long does it take to get through customs without it?

Thank you all for the great advice!

Simple question. Have not cruised for long time and have the Sky scheduled with a 10am flight scheduled after disembarkation. Going from Port Everglades to Fort Lauterdale airport...  will I make it in time? Are taxis reliable or what is best way to go.

Than you!

I agree... I will have the digital on my phone and also have a photo of the CDC card. We want to be well prepared as our last two cruises were cancelled and we are more than ready to sail again.

Just being proactive here before we board at Port Everglades on Princess. We use a digital certificate from Vaxyes for covid vax id and wanted to make sure it is accepted. Called Princess and that was no help.

Would appreciate anyone here that can shine some light on this?

How do you find an insurance that stands behind what they say.... there are none it seems.

Had Travelex for a spring 2020 cruise and they flat out denied everything because Covid was declared a pandemic. They said pandemics aren't covered. What a cop-out.

We were booked on the Enchanted for January 30, 2021 but cancelled after reading what the CDC would require (see below) if one case of Covid shows up on a cruise. What do you think the odds of that Are?

As a condition of operating, cruise lines will be required to advise passengers in all marketing materials, websites, and in materials for voyages, that if a threshold for COVID-19 is detected during the voyage, the ship will return to its U.S. port of embarkation and that subsequent travel, including return home, could be delayed.

Sounds like back to the port and quarantine to me. Am I wrong? Any comments.