Don9992

The really sad part is that it's actually better than it was a year ago. I don't know who Princess hired to write this train wreck but whoever it was appears to completely unfamiliar with the notion that customers are not the appropriate parties for alpha and beta testing.

Now that's a deal I could live with!

The balcony dining rates are up for the 1/21 cruise, though.

My app still shows Crown Grill and Bistro Sur La Mer at $29 and Sabatini's at $25.

I pulled up the Princess site today and took a look at Dining Options for our January21 cruise on the Discovery. I could swear the last time I looked the balcony breakfast cost $45 and dinner was $100. Today they were $50 and $110, respectively. I hadn't heard about a price increases.

I've booked Plus on both Princess cruises I've taken because it's a really good deal. I looked at Premier but: a) We couldn't possibly care less about the photo package b) If it is possible, we care even less about the stupid prize program c) I have 2 devices, a phone and a tablet and I can easily switch the regular Internet package between them d) The drinks we order aren't particularly expensive so we don't need the boost. We would enjoy the specialty meals but we can just buy them for less than the cost of the upgrade. The bottom line is that there's just not enough value to this package above Plus to make it appeal to us.

We were planning to do an excursion to some smaller interior towns while in Mazatlan until I read the State Department warning about Sinaloa state containing words like "tourist kidnapping". We decided to just stay in the historic part of the city there on our January cruise. That's the only effect te report had on our plans.

Call me a spoil sport but $20/day for a chance to win $15 of OBC doesn't strike me as a good deal.

That's how they used to show Plus and Premier but I've noticed lately that the Web site shows them as options that can be retroactively added.

I looked at the price to go to a full suite on the Discovery in January. The lowest bid was $475 each. That is less than the regular price difference but not that much less. We're already in a Club Class Mini Suite with an expanded balcony and that sounds just fine. Pass

If I'm reading the app right, it looks like Club Class dining takes place in the Skagway dining room- Is that correct?

They give you a cookbook after showing you the ship's sewage treatment system?

We got a call from Princess a couple of days ago and they asked me to open the app and attempt to add Ocean Ready info. Fortunately, I was sitting down. It worked! Next, they had my wife open the app. Our July cruise showed in it! She still has some issues in the app with entering Ocean Ready stuff but she is now able to do that on the Web page or through my login and all her other functions work. Our issues started in September when we were switched from the Sapphire to the Royal. We opened our first support ticket then. It took about 8 months for Princess' IT department to fix what was clearly a database issue. Oh, well. Now I just hope it stays fixed (or as close to fixed as it is) until the end of our cruise on July 30.

My wife would like to see the official Princess Medallion holders before buying one. Do they cost any more onboard the ship?

Thanks for the suggestion. I just checked Time Limo. They would charge CAD232.50 which is USD183 at today's exchange rate. That's quite a bit more than CanTrip so we'll go with the latter.