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I assume you mean plastic bottles and not other plastic single-use items like cutlery and straws. (But hey, that could be next!) 🤣

Excellent. Thanks.

Same decor, same menu. Location is the only variable.

Anything can turn into a dress code thread on CC! 🤣

For the ships with Crooners, yes. On Majestic, we got a great table by a window and spent a happy hour or so every day. Hanging out in the Piazza is fun, people watching or enjoying the music.

Isn't it funny the stereotypes some people believe about seniors?

I don't remember that. There is a wall and some doors that close between them.

I know this. I just hope Corp doesn't decide to "tinker" HAL in the near future. Further on down the line, maybe, but as my friend DallasGuy says, I'm going to be dead soon. I really used to love Princess. Sigh.

I have been taking my snaggle-toothed demographic over to HAL for the last couple of years. If it weren't for the FCC I have to use up on Princess...

I guess you haven't been following what I've been saying all along. Princess is trying to get rid of old people. This is not a surprise to me. (With any luck, you will not get any older than you are now.)

Possibly you should have struggled a little more. 🙂 Yep. I'm old. I'm going to die, so it makes perfect sense for Princess to cut my perks and change everything I liked about it. No point trying to keep me coming back. You convinced me! Where's the plank? Gotta go walk it.

This. The idea is to attract new customers and escort the old ones off the ship. Our day as Elites has come and gone.

It sounds like the gifts are random, some worth more than others. Does everyone get a gift? It's just another form of gambling. Maybe you'll get dinner in Salty Dog pub or maybe you'll get $1000. I'm passing on this.

It's the new business model. They want to attract new cruisers and stop spending money on the old ones who were loyal and were promised perks. Princess is not the same company it was pre-covid.

A related question: does CC dining operate for lunch on embarkation day?

You are the lucky ones.

I saw some for sale on the Majestic this year. I don't think Princess will turn down a chance to make some money off the smokers. It's still legal in "designated areas."

Is CC dining on deck 5 or 6? Is it port or starboard?

I'm happy for you. I am not the OP.

Before the plague, I got sick on a TA and was confined to my room for 3 days. I think it was the Caribbean Princes. They had HGTV on the TV, and I caught up on all the shows I had missed. It was a high point in an otherwise bad experience.

Quiet is hard to come by. The Piazza is loud, decks, too. Maybe find an empty bar. Club 6 is usually kind of deserted.

Welcome to Cruise Critic. 🙂

I'm glad it's working for you, but my TD is a table assigned the first night at late seating with the same waiters every night and new friends waiting there at my table to greet me. We then get to know each other and have fun dining together every night thereafter. This is what happened on my HAL cruise this year, and the plan is to repeat it for my cruising life (or until Corp decides to mess up HAL, too.) My last Princess cruise since the start up was nothing like this, and the staff was unable to provide anything the website promised.

I don't think the OP here is "dependent on a few dollars." Princess owes him money and he wants it back. There is nothing wrong with that.

Yes, I do. And it seems you are right that changing lines is the only way to do it. What's so frustrating is that Princess said we could dine at the same time with the same people just like in days of old, but they lied. I think they are just waiting for us to go away so they can get on with their new business plan (which throws tradition overboard.) HAL is the next-best thing, so that's where we will be heading after we use up our covid FCC on Princess.