AlpacaBag

Thanks, I updated my post.

Edited as it was incorrect. See below post.

I also had issues buying from the aarp rewards site for the first time, had to open a ticket, waited a couple weeks, then went to buy and it didn't work, then had to email them, wait more, and finally they said should work - and it did. I am not sure what causes the problem, but I suspect it's a combination of user events. I.e. things that line up when a user signs up. For example, when I signed up, I was: Using Firefox with their strictest privacy protection enabled which sometimes causes websites to act funny, given that the protection blocks cookies, some scripts, etc... I also had an ad blocker enabled and the email I used at signup was not a typical domain, like hotmail.com outlook.com, or gmail.com, comcast.net, etc etc etc.. it was my firefox relay service) So I think because of those things, their system flagged me and stopped me from buying until someone on their staff whitelisted my account. It's admittedly very frustrating and I do wonder if it is by design to inhibit the max number of sales since many users will get frustrated and give up.

I'd say about 14 days, give or take a day or two.

Wanted to say thank you for this recommendation. I had never heard of this site before your mention and was able to secure an over night for our upcoming December cruise and saved ~40-45% from expedia, similar site rates. Many thanks!

Too bad we can't use our Princess Plus or Premiere beverage benefits on the train....

Thanks for keeping the community updated!

Looks to be a brightline agreement: https://www.gobrightline.com/offers/princess-cruises Screenshot in case the page gets pulled, Brightline may have published early.

Or those of us in Jacksonville. No Brightline here and Amtrak and Florida East Coast Rail would move heaven and earth to prevent a Brightline station from opening here. And for those getting their hopes up about the port in Jacksonville being a Princess port - don't get one's hopes up too far... it's NCL that got that spot, unfortunately. Unless they are allowing a 3rd cruise line to use the dock, I just don't see how they'd have room, it's already so small.

Upcoming sailing, Dec 20 to 30 on Enchanted from Ft. Lauderdale and we were getting ready to secure Enclave passes and noticed there are 2 enclave pass listings for our sailing, both seem to be the same and are even the same price. Is this because there are 2 of us in the booking? (Seems the simplest explanation) or is there a difference I'm not seeing. Screenshot below:

Really good advice in this thread. I just wanted to chime in and add this very important tidbit about WiFi Calling - please please please be sure it is enabled for the very first time BEFORE you leave port. On the US carriers, when you go to activate WiFi Calling for the first time, it will use the GPS and such in the phone to ascertain your general location, but it will also ask you to enter your physical address for e911 purposes. If you aren't detected as being in the US during the WiFi calling setup process, it might fail to activate. You don't want to be at sea and have it fail to turn on. 🙂 So, as long as you have it working on your Home WiFi before you head out on your voyage, you should be golden.

Are you able to setup a google voice number on your phone? Google voice is free to use, for the most part. There are charges if you call international numbers on it, but US calling is free. If so, you set the calls on your cell to forward to your google voice number, which can make/receive calls on WiFi (VoIP calling, basically) and you will be able to receive those (hopefully non-emergency) calls. As far as SMS forwarding, there are ways to do that - I think you can use something like Pulse SMS for example. It sucks that the US carriers are so restrictive about using unlocked devices on their network, especially when they offer the exact same device through them directly and could just flash that firmware to the unlocked device during activation, and then customers wouldn't have these made up "wifi calling issues". Alas, let me get off that soap box. Concerning WhatsApp, there's one very big reason not to use it - and that's their parent company - Meta. Signal is many, many times better.

Princess does have connecting staterooms, you just have to be crafty when booking your cabin. It's best done thru a TA since it can be tricky. But when you go to select a cabin during booking - you will see a note that says Cabin connects to "XXX" cabin when you click the cabin you want. That way you could book both simultaneously. As to your question about the Medallions opening 2 rooms, yes, they can be programmed to open multiple cabins. Guest services can do this for you once you're on board.

I've been over 21 for a long, long time and don't think I've consumed that many alcoholic beverages in that span of time. Wow, that's just mind boggling, to be honest.

Replying to follow and also say hello up from Jax!