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Booking very early with a fixed fare and later payment is the main benefit of consolidator fares. What is difficult is the airlines often change flights and the consolidators depending on the airline cannot choose what flight to move your reservation. Consolidator fares have limited flight choice. As to fares, try this. . . . do a mock economy booking on a route starting at a smaller airport. Then do it again several times. The fare will move up. Then try the next day. The fare will reset. If seats are very limited the change can be extreme.

Note if you shop a flight the next person gets a higher fare from the computer and if there is another inquiry in the next hour a fare moves up again. Takes a couple hours to move the price back down. Talk to a person and definitely check out the airlines direct.

Ken. Being that Reykjavik has about 80 taxis and comparing it with Uber is Seattle is a bit unrealistic. You can schedule an Uber and there are hundreds in Seattle. No Uber in Reykjavik.

Have booked connecting cabins for teens several times. Lots easier than sorting out the Medallions that have a cabin and photo attached. Just ask and book early so there is availability. To get it to reasonably work on board you would need to switch medallions for one teen and one adult. Then the one adult could not order anything in the plus package. Neither could the teen as the photo would not match. A real.pain Your CVP at Princess or your TA can handle this.

To see what the Plus and Premier packages include Google the packages. The details of what each purchaser receives is clearly (to me) detailed.

The early booking date for EZAir of 330 days is the same for airlines booked direct. Many airlines open flights once a week. Pricing historically is a bit cheaper a couple weeks after opening except for holiday weeks as there are lots of placeholder bookings with refundable fares. EZAir can be great. Just fully understand the rules for your ticket like voluntary change fees, seats, and what happens if your flights are canceled

I certainly agree that ALL cruiselines charge premiums that are often double. The Fly Over tour last year had multiple variations at prices from $25 to almost $100. The big issue for tours in Iceland is transportation. A short taxi ride can be $50 with wait times of 1 hour or more. So that needs to be factored in any comparison. Iceland has the problem of being completely overwhelmed by tourism. Having several million tourists visit an island with under 400K people is making for challenges. Both locals and tourists.

There are several websites (several are TA sites) that provide cabin details of extra people/connecting etc. An internet search will give you access.

They actually are pretty neat. Hope the OP can do a Google search on them.

We have booked connecting a cabin for our teens, as well as, a cabin directly across the hallway. Adults in one cabin and teens in the other. We had a drink package. Grandchildren did not.

Are you saying you tapped your card or using RFID you showed it to them from a short distance/had it read in your pocket. Swiped simply means read/tapped or ?? to most.

Did you download the new app?

Good choice. Would go with Exploration journeys Signing contracts in Argentina is tough with inflation that can be over 100% in a single month!

If you found your cruise just wondering why you would not either call Princess and use a CVP or find a TA who would give you a few hundred in OBC, a group fare that is a few hundred less than the fare on line or both?

It varies by ship. Need someone on board to upload the data. Have had it appear months ahead and other times a couple weeks.

Thanks. Any odds on like 2025 spending time going around Africa? This route really nice. The 2025 revised plan not attractive to me.

You cannot pay for the salon using OBC before you board.

Agree. Do a bit of research. Your train to Mt Fuji is pretty easy. Lots of day and short tours.

All we have needed to do is show our phone at the check in counter. Card info is already there. They grabbed our medallions and we were off. Have had lines, but they seemed to do with people not in the correct line - Green vs. Blue and not getting our medallions. Check in seems to vary from port to port and month to month. Southampton was maybe 10 minutes in total. Few fully checked in and fewer with their medallions in the UK. Has taken an hour in LA and 5 minutes the next time. No idea why.

Lactose free milk not an issue. Also soy and/or almond milk on board in my experience. Just need to let Princess know your dietary restrictions. Ordering room service breakfast, found it easier to go to the buffet. Better choice and hot food then was hot.

In San Pedro (LA) about 1 minute. In Texas about 2 minutes. IMO - do not understand why anyone would stress over getting them mailed on time.

The 90 minutes if a firm hard limit in some countries. Others a bit flexible. In the US if you arrive under 90 minutes from sailing you might be turned away.

Yes you can come and go as you please. Just need patience as no real tender schedule.

Documents are available 30 days out. We usually do not bother as they can scan your phone and luggage tags are stupid (use scotch tape?) when in seconds a porter can tag with a string tag at the pier. As for checking times. We get there when we get there. Sometimes early. Often around noon. At noon could be on board in 10 minutes if I could walk faster

Almost always too cold for me. As this thread has hopefully described to you - what is just right for one us too warm for another and too cold for a third. Thus have a light wrap you can put on or head to the pool.