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Thanks to all. It sounds like Starlink has provided significant improvement to service in the Pacific. Last time we took this trip @ 7 years ago it wasn’t so great.

Hello,

We are taking a cruise to Hawaii soon and wonder how the internet is these days? What can we expect?
Thank you

Voljeep: travel agent says they see what we see online as to what is or is not available.

Please remind me why the cruise lines (in this case, Princess) reserve all the cabins, listing few for customer selection! It is not possible for all the cabins on a particular deck (except for a few) to be booked 9 months in advance. Do they want my business or not? Tried guarantees in the past and will not go for that again.

Any tricks to navigate the cabin selection?

Wouldn't you know, mine came in a little while ago, too! I think the surveys are very important and was worried I wasn't getting one. But I did. Thanks everyone for responding! 

That has been our experience in the past. Usually within 24 hours or so.

We disembarked Rotterdam early Sunday, the 25th. Shouldn’t we have gotten our trip survey by now? 

Thanks for the tip!

Is it within walking distance of Aloha Tower?

Looking for a car rental place near Aloha Tower. It has been a while since we docked at AT. Is there a shuttle to it? Thanks.

What surprises me is why HAL doesn’t make this easier to find? For example, Princess has your OBC easy to find on its Cruise Personalizer. I know it is important to keep all of CCL’s cruise lines separate, but some things, such as software could be shared.

I appreciate the comments on this.

Here is what Apostleship of the Sea website says are the duties and what is included/not included for a participating priest:

Cruise Ship Priest Program

Thanks to all of you for responding! I am embarrassed not to have remembered where to look for it!

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How can I tell how much onboard credit I have going into a cruise? Where on my account will I find this information? Thank you.

Does anyone know what all the emergency vehicles were doing at forward gangway as passengers were disembarking Enchanted this morning? It seemed like more than necessary for an ill passenger. 

We always fly from Ft. Lauderdale so do not know if EZ CHECK works for Miami.

Thank you for your reply PacGoNow. Perhaps the issue did have to do with being on a TA.

Update: just now, we got our EZ CHECK documents hours ahead of the 24 hour information given to us. What a relief to get those tags.

Disembarking from the Enchanted Princess tomorrow. Completed the EZ Check forms last week. We meet all the criteria. When the disembarkation information was distributed to our cabin, we were given luggage tags that were not for EZ CHECK; rather they were for an ordinary disembarkation.

DH went to Guest Services and they said we were not approved for EZ CHECK, that IF we were approved for it—by the airline—that we would not know until 24 hours ahead of the flight.

Really? We have used this program many times between HAL and Princess. What is going on? This had never been the protocol before. 
Are we being given incorrect information, or is this something new?

How does one go about playing this game? Need a reservation?

Thanks to both of you for that information!

We are traveling with our children in two cabins and have the Princess Plus packages for each cabin. That means one wifi device per person. Can we buy the 4-device wifi and share it with the other cabin? We all use multiple devices. Thank you.

We are on the March 11th Discovery sailing and we were notified several weeks ago that we would not be stopping in Monterey. Santa Barbara was added.

Thanks to those who replied! I appreciate it.

Does Princess use EZ Check at LAX or Long Beach?

We have done this Hawaii trip 3 times plus a handful of Transatlantics, so we have experience with sea days. IMO if you can entertain yourself then you will be fine. If, instead, you need to be entertained, then a lot of sea days may not work for you.

As others have said, because the port activity is intense when you get to Hawaii, the sea days back across the Pacific are relaxing.