MTNest93

I wouldn’t risk it and would renew now while I still had time. Less stress!

I wholeheartedly agree with you! Not having an adult area other than the Sanctuary is incredibly disappointing and would prevent me from ever booking on this ship again. In fact, if I didn't have 4 others booked with us, I would cancel. I can only hope that since we are sailing early February that there won't be a bunch of kids onboard. When we cruised over the 4th of July last summer, we hardly noticed the amount of kids because we stayed in the adult only areas. If Princess is trying to market to the masses and multi-generational families, I think an adult only retreat is a MUST! Look at Disney, even they know the adults need a place to go!

I think once the construction is complete on these items, they not only need to be tested, but inspected and certified for use. So depending on where that inspection/certification is to take place and when the ship is back at the appropriate port, could be adding to the delay as well. Just my guess.

That disappoints me so much! We've only cruised once on the CB last summer and spent all our time in either the Sanctuary or the adult only pool by the Lotus Spa. I wish there was an adult only area on the Sun - either the Wake View and/or Dome/Sea View area (during the day). Pretty sure the Sun will be a one and done ship for us.

B535 does appear to be a 3 person cabin. If you go to the deck plans on the PCL website, you can sort by # of passengers, as well as connecting and accessible rooms.

Try the web version

I'll pray for you! We are not on until Feb 2025 so hopefully things will be sorted out by then - but then again who knows what other changes they'll decide to make.

@capriccio With the yesterday's announcement about the Sanctuary Collection, it now clearly shows on the Princess website that the Sanctuary is 16+. Exclusive access to the Sanctuary Club This tranquil top-deck space is reserved exclusively for adults (ages 16+). Spend the day in total bliss as you relax poolside with a craft cocktail. Order some bites and beverages from a custom menu, even find your flow with wellness classes. Here, it’s Zen time any time. Especially when you reserve a private cabana.

Utterly ridiculous all the changes that have been made to a ship that has been sailing less than 2 months and is still not fully operational.

Yes, Reserve Collection has priority access to dining 🙂

What level stateroom are you booked in? For our 2026 cruise on the Royal, we are in a Reserve mini and I was able to book specialty dining over 2 year out. But on the Sun we don't have a stateroom that comes with priority reservations.

We don't have status, are not in a suite, nor are we in a Reserve Class stateroom, so we can't book our dining prior to being paid in full which I won't do until 90 days out as required.

We are booked in a cabana-mini (deck10 - not reserve). My only concern with these changes is that we purchased the Premier package and since we won't have early access to make specialty dining reservations, we may have difficulty booking our two included dinners with all the suites now having Premier, plus their included embarkation specialty dinner. It will be interesting to see how this plays out once the new dining reservations open up. I think our backup plan will be to drop to the Plus package and forgo specialty dining if it proves impossible to make reservations that work for us.

The Sanctuary is adult only on the Sun, same as all other Princess ships.

We did our 1st cruise on the CB last July and had such a great time we've since booked 2 more Princess cruises. We would not hesitate to sail on the Caribbean again!!