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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!!

Saw your post this morning and checked both my app and online accounts and both now have my husband's email. Explains why I didn't receive notification of the recent dining changes for our next cruise. Best I can tell, the change happened some time after 3/19/24 (last date I received an email from Princess). If Princess only knew how many thousand unread emails my husband has, lol. I tried chat to get it changed and they said I had to call. I'll go through our TA at this point.

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Reservations on the Sun have not opened up past 5/31 at this point. I'm sure they'll be opening up dates soon.

We booked on the Royal in January 2024 for a February 2026 cruise w/premier package. I was able to immediately book our 2 (each) specialty dinners through the app w/out having to pay in advance. For whatever reason I find that signing into the app with my booking number instead of user name and password seems to work better.

We had the Plus package on our 1st cruise last year. For us it was a no-brainer. I budget tightly at home (YNAB for the win!) and we splurge on vacation. On that cruise we had 2 specialty dinners and bought a $99 photo package on the last day. Photos aren’t usually our thing, but they got some great shots of us that would be nice to use at our funerals some day (we know our youngest daughter has secretly started a folder). We booked our 2nd cruise a week after returning home and got 2 other couples to join us. We’re all excited to try out the new Sun Princess. This time we purchased Premier because we know we’ll want to do a couple specialty dinners again as well as casual dining (which wasn’t available on the CB last July), plus we’ll have a lot of fun with the photographers with this group, and my BFF and favorite sister-in-law will drag me to the fitness classes daily, something I never managed to get to last time. We also accidentally exceeded the Plus pkg drink prices a few times last year, but dang those Old Fashioneds were worth it! Premier math made sense for this trip, and we liked walking off the ship last year with a tiny bill (thank you TA OBC, and stock benies). Personally we would never not do a package but we all cruise differently so it’s nice to have options!

I LOVE my TA, but then again, I did give birth to her 🤪

Just to add, you don't pay extra when using a TA, in fact you can sometimes get a better deal and/or OBC added.

Meanwhile you should be able to sign into the app with your booking number.

Use a TA and you won't have to deal with Princess directly. Meanwhile, are there specific questions that maybe the group can help answer for you?

From my understanding you can prepay gratuities and maybe look into a non-alcoholic beverage package. As for wifi, you will have 2 wifi accounts with your Plus packages that you can share amongst the 3 of you, just won't be able to all 3 be on it at the same time.