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If you know it's out of Southhampton - perhaps this will help - look at the calendar for the correct timeframe

Whats in port

or look in Cruisemapper if you know the ship and look at full itinerary list

Cruisemapper for Sky Princess

41 minutes ago, SargassoPirate said:

The description of the Island on Princess.com shows La Pastisserie as of this morning.

 

 

 

 

 

 

I agree the description is there - but there is not Patisserie - just Amuletto at bow of Horizon Court and Good Times on deck 5.

On 11/1/2023 at 7:07 PM, Sea Hag said:

According to my CVP, it's a replacement. She says the form or just an email will no longer work.

Worked for me last week doing it via email with blacked out brokerage statement and https://www.princess.com/downloads/pdf/contact-us/shareholder-request-form.pdf

No other personal info required or intrusive questions other than what's on the pdf.

12 minutes ago, SargassoPirate said:

You're right.  The Island used to have La Patisserie. I'm not sure when it was removed.  From a Google search:

" La Patisserie. Café Style to Go. For cappuccino, espresso and other coffee specialties, as well as fresh pastries"

 

 

 

As mentioned in post #2 - Good times bar has coffee, fresh pastries, mini sandwiches etc.

Also as mentioned the casino bar as well as Amuletto have coffee

1 hour ago, MONARCHMONICA said:

HI

I was just wondering if there were things you wished you had brought and thing you didn't need??

Thank you

I have lists all over the place!!

)))

Not enough of my preferred otc medicines - eg like benedryl and 'real' sudafed - benedryl, even generic was not findable anywhere outside the US.  And we searched! 😉

27 minutes ago, Kaled13 said:

We are elite status and and have been for a number of years and book almost all our excursions pre cruise but have never had the 10% loyalty discount automatically applied to our onboard account as OBC. We did not question it as we did not realise that we were entitled to it. So do you have to to guest relations once onboard to have this added?

We did the 2023 WC - when we boarded, as others have said, the 10% loyalty discount was on our account automatically from the first day onboard, as refundable OBC.  No contact with guest services was necessary. 

39 minutes ago, wallyj said:

I believe Princess has switched to first timers having White, which originally signified inaugural sailings for that ship. This has been my experience, since June 2023 on my recent sailings. 

Possibly - but in any case - based on loyalty level.  One can also notice when going to one's cabin, that the display also has the color corresponding to medallion/level.

Based on your Captain's Circle loyalty level.  Blue are first timers

https://www.princess.com/downloads/pdf/cc/captains-circle-loyalty-benefits.pdf

8 hours ago, SargassoPirate said:

After several world cruises were cancelled by the pandemic, I ended up booking a WC on the Island.  Great itinerary for me, a nice mix of port and sea days, and by watching for price drops, I've been able to save 10K from my initial booking.

 

I can usually find a workaround for whatever "genius" ideas Princess comes up with - such as increasing the passenger capacity by reducing public spaces.  

 

We did the 2023 WC and previously Panama Canal cruise plus are doing the '24 WC on the Island - like the itineraries, liked the size of the ship, the crew was great, and we always found somewhere to hang out when that's what we desired.  Sure - miss a wrap around promenade deck but made due for our walking, and the new ships don't really have one either.  

1 hour ago, Cessna140 said:

On some of the Princess ships the Caribe deck cabins have half covered half open balconies. Does anyone know if this is the case on the Island Princess?

I've tried to figure it out from deck plans but don't see it. 

Thanks

This was posted a long time ago - may not even have been on cruisecritic - but may help you

https://www.cruisedeckplans.com/Princess/odell/res76zxu/princessbalconies/index.html

1 hour ago, PacnGoNow said:

I have seen a “live” from San Pedro, where a cruiser walked and it looked fairly flat, but don’t know if there would be hurdles for ecv’s?

It is all sidewalks and parking lots.

7 hours ago, katmigordon said:

Do you think it would be possible to ride ecvs to it?

don't know what ecvs means.  taxis/uber/lyft available - better to reserve for the time you want.  If ecvs is motorized personal vehicle - what will you do with it when you get to the ship?  I wouldn't recommend walking - I just said it would be possible - it's a couple of miles and probably a lot of traffic on cruise day.  We walked to the battleship iowa museum the day before.

1 hour ago, tootsiescurly said:

There is a Crown Plaza very close to the port.

We've stayed there twice - happy with it - can even walk to the port if you didn't have much luggage - but there is a modestly priced shuttle - just reserve it early!

8 hours ago, roxstarcruiser said:

Is it fair to assume they automatically charge you when you're moved off the waitlist? 

No - perhaps it's true as someone said above that if you have enough onboard credits you're automatically charged.  But we had excursions booked in a port, and were waitlisted on a separate excursion.  The excursions we previously booked were canceled and we got an email saying we had 24 or 48 hours to pay the additional cost (it was more expensive than what was canceled) for the new excursion or we would end up having lost both excursions.  

Onboard when we were waitlisted I'd say we were successful in about 1 out of 5 times actually getting the excursion.

Seems like you may be right - can't find getting ill with Covid references other than in the FAQs for  princess vacation protection

https://www.princess.com/plan/princess-vacation-protection/

"Q: What if I find out I was exposed to someone either on my way to my cruise or during the cruise, and I end up being isolated in my cabin for part or all of the voyage?
A: PVP provides reimbursement for the days you are confined to your cabin if the confinement is ordered by a medical professional."

We both received the same this morning as well.  My initial reaction too was one of caution but they were legitimate and from our May 2022 Panama Canal Cruise.  We'd received the same in 2022 after I'd requested the info from customer support, not getting one in email after our cruise.  Pretty delayed, I'd say 😉

On 8/29/2023 at 10:55 AM, DCThunder said:

I just got off Island and did 16 days in an aft balcony on Baja (B736 to be precise).  Here are some Pros/Cons:

Pros:

It was very quiet from noise from other cabins

It was near the laundromat, but not so close as to be intrusive.

Very convenient to the Lotus Spa

Not as much motion from the ocean as you might expect

Cons:

It was a LONG way from the Horizon Court buffet meaning a long walk the length of the ship to get breakfast.  Also a long way from the elevators to the main piazza.

There was some vibration from the engines but you got used to it quickly.  No noise from engines, just a vibration through the hull.

Rumble from the thrusters when coming into port.  It was evident when they were on

 

TL;DR, I didn't think the aft cabin was bad, but I've come to prefer more forward cabins.

 

Hope this helps and happy cruising.  For an older ship, I liked Island and if you like to have a cocktail, see Chris and Akin in Explorers Bar and tell them Peter and Pat sent you!

We did the 2023 world cruise on IP in aft cabin dolphin deck.  Other than thrusters and a little vibration - not an issue.  And love the distance  from everything - made it easy to get in our walking steps for the day (with the addition of promenade deck circuit) 😉  Wouldn't hesitate to do stay there again.  

14 hours ago, mrell345 said:

Was looking at the price lists, what is with the bin number on all the wines?

 

You can request a complete wine list (bound book) when dining and bin numbers will be listed

15 hours ago, mrell345 said:

Are they waterproof and when they arrive do they have some kind of tab that pulls out to activate them so as the battery does not run out before you even get on the ship when they send them to you in the mail?

They ARE waterproof

5 hours ago, chrysalis said:

batteries will run out at any time, and with our experience doing longer cruises, they are pretty well expired after 14 days or so....they just make you a new one in a matter of minutes.

On the last world cruise my husband and I each had at least 2 replacements made.  They only last about a month.  As others have stated, it takes a few short minutes to get it replaced.

1 hour ago, MustangGT said:

We were on the Island for 28 days and never heard about Alfredo’s pizza in Sabatini’s 😢

@MustangGT ,  @Rick&Jeannie posted a pub lunch representative menu - they altered slightly from lunch to lunch - it would be posted in the patter (not under dining room hours) - and similarly for 'Alfredos' - whatever times were posted, they actually seated folks at least a half hour before that.  It would only be on non-port days so depending on your 28 day itinerary there might have been one or two.

On 7/28/2023 at 5:53 PM, MustangGT said:

Had the Pub Lunch in the MDR on the Island last week.  The fish was not good.  Nothing like it used to be.  Fish and Chips is also one of the always available on the menu under “Princess Favorites” and was no better there than the Pub Lunch.

On the Island Pub Lunch was offered roughtly every couple of weeks in Bayou Cafe during the 2023 WC.  Alfredo's pizza lunch was in Sabatini's also every couple of weeks.  Yes - there were 'pub lunch' items in Horizon buffet too.

For us, recently off the 2023 WC - we booked a lot of Princess excursions and that 10% off really added up.  The laundry was great too - altho' on a ship with at least half elites, sometimes it took almost a week to get back.  We went to the Platinum/elite lounge frequently but had done that as platinum too.  Didn't really care about tender priority because we were on excursions.

On 6/28/2023 at 4:29 PM, Purple Gallinule said:

First of all, YES I did do a search on this and did not find the answer to my question.

 

So, here goes. We just finished a B2B Alaska cruise on Majestic from and to Vancouver. Each Saturday we received the complimentary minibar setup. I am assuming this is because it was two cruises.

 

My question is: When you sail on a 14-day or longer cruise (e.g. full canal transit for 16 days) do you get more than one minibar setup? There is probably a simple answer, but I have not found it. We have two 16-day cruises booked.

 

Thanks in advance for any help.

Just got off a world cruise - altho' booked as one cruise, got new minibar setups each segment and made exchanges for what I wanted.  If they didn't automatically provide the setup I called and confirmed I was supposed to get, and got it delivered.

40 minutes ago, PhotogrFrGal said:

Yippee!  Refund has been issued!   Of course he said it would be 2 weeks before I would probably receive it.  As an added bonus, he is fixing problem with husband's captain circle number being wrong, which we tried to get fixed last year! 

Fantastic!  My FCC was supposed to take 24 hours to appear and was there within minutes - so you may receive it faster than promised!