cruiselvr1

This was the perfect opportunity for you to directly mention to these parents that people eat on those tables. They have a responsibility to dispose of the diapers appropriately. No one here is 12 years old anymore. It’s time to be an adult.

I will say though that I’m not sure I would have said something to the parents. I am outspoken and not afraid to speak up however if I encounter something completely out of my norm I don’t always react the way I’d like to in retrospect.

This confirms my steadfastness in using peroxide wipes on all surfaces inside and out wherever I travel.

All this talk has me dreading my next Regal cruise. It isn't until Feb 2019 but at the rate they are going it seems I won't even be able to open my cabin door. I don't see any benefit of the medallion for me anyway.

We were thinking about doing a b2b in February, only because of the *****. This would have been our first cruise in the elite level, now i’m Not so sure.

Add us to the list of those who LOVE Crooners! :hearteyes:

My DW and I loved to sit and have a couple of Martinis. The problem, there are always people just sitting, and not drinking. So it was always hard to get a seat. Our next cruise this spring will probably be our last, we decided to by an RV and travel the Country. We will elite after that cruise. We will miss Princess and cruising.

Hi Karen,

 

I have seen the medallions and they can easily slide into the Princess wallet and stay there for the entire cruise. Because you don't need the card to open your cabin or get on board the ship you can just leave it in the wallet and door will unlock when you get close to it.

 

I too don't normally carry my card with me, especially in the evening and if I do I usually stick it in my bra :o (don't judge me) so I am guessing the medallion might just get lost in there. :')

 

Following along in the live thread to see how it rolls out. Quite excited about the entire thing. We will be on for the Royal Roll Out

Just like my Truck, I just keep the keyfob in my pocket and I can unlock, and lock my doors, and start the truck. Isn’t modern tech wonderful.

I just posted your reply on the Celebrity boards (Infinity going to the dogs) as there is a discussion on a woman who brings her dog on cruises in a stroller and even brings it into the dining room etc. Many people, it seems, have cruised with this woman and the dog is not trained at all, including using the bathroom facilities provided on board for service animals.

 

I loved your post and thought it provided a bit of humour for the Celebrity board.

 

I also mentioned a flight I was on where two people were training two service dogs to fly before they went to their actual owners who were visually impaired.

Celebrity has gone to the dogs anyway.

When I was on the Royal they had a big slab of butter and a big tub of pancake syrup, which I found a bit more inconvenient than individual pats of butter and containers of syrup because you had to add your syrup right at the buffet. Is this the setup on all the Princess ships?

My guess it’s money saving for the cruise line. The problem it’s also good way of spreading noro.

Call princess give them your booking number and have it pulled from the TA.

 

As for better deals keep a watchful eye out yourself and make the phone calls. Iv never had a TA or CL call and tell me there was a price drop.

Any good TA will watch for deals, and keep you in the loop. In our case, our TA knows what to look for and doesn't need our permission to make certain changes. We have a small TA, who specializes in cruising. When we find a cruise and the right suite (usually a vista) we keep it.

Someone posted a review of the cruise we were just on, and indicated that suite dinner was in Club Class. I've since looked at the Princess promotional materials for suites, and on the suite benefits page (https://www.princess.com/downloads/pdf/ships/PrincessSuite_eFlyer.pdf), I now see "Exclusive Club Class dining in the main dining room for breakfast and dinner daily as well as lunch on sea days...", and I don't see any mention of traditional dining as an option.

 

The two times we've sailed in a suite while CC was "present", we had the option of traditional dining, and the promotional materials indicated that suite passengers had their choice of dining arrangements and that their requests were guaranteed. Although Club Class has its perks (don't get me wrong, I do like the concept and we did enjoy it for breakfast/lunch), it's exclusive, for better and worse (if you're traveling with non-CC folks, you can't dine with them).

 

I'd always been of the impression that suites could still select Traditional Dining, and anyone else could link their booking to the suite pax and be able to join them at that assigned table. Anyone have any more definitive insights on this?

On our recent Alaskan Cruise, we were marked as TD because club class wasn't a option when we booked the cruise. We had a hard time changing to club class, after talking to the maître d' hotel he made the change. So it was not a requirement.

Most evenings we go to the piazza after dinner (that means 9 ish). We would sit where we could find a seat. Did not see any problems.

 

Of course, there is always the one group on one cruise that is a problem., maybe OP just lucked into a bad group.

I've seen these idiots without the S&S.

:p

Cruiselver1, please let us know the outcome, and best of luck to you both!

As of now we are planning to go the cruise. The surgery is planned 2 weeks after we get back. Thank you for all the help and concern for my DW.:p

Thanks for the help. She is inclined to cancel, so someone else will get our aft suite. I told her no matter when or if we cancel someone will get a nice surprise.

What are the terms of the insurance? Is there a pre existing clause?

It is from a fall after we paid our fInal payment. Our only concern, is the surgery will be needed during our cruise. She isn't in a lot of pain, and she can go if the surgery is after we get back.

My DW has an appointment with a surgeon 7days before boarding. We have Princess Platium Insurance. She would like to cancel now, I told her that we should wait until the appointment. We have not been told when the operation on my DW arm will be.

Thanks

We're sailing the Grand in early September. Is the BOGO +$1 Happy Hour still available on the Grand? Thanks!

I am often asleep when my 19 year old is still up and about on the ship. My 13 year old has free run and usually puts himself to be before 10, but he has stayed out later.

 

Just because I am in my room, and they have a room across the hall, does not mean that as a parent I have done anything wrong. I know my kids. They have rules and structure and follow them. Neither of my boys is so stupid as to pull some kind of stunt like this and I assure you had they seen it, they would have reported it.

 

The issue here is not addressed by a blanket statement about where the parents are. Did your parents watch you all day everyday when you were 14 or 15 - which is about the age I am guessing these kids are?

 

These kids (both of them) were 100% in the wrong. They are old enough to know better. Should they and their parents be put off the ship? Absolutely. Banned from Princess forever? Perhaps, depending on ship policy.

 

But the issue is NOT where parents are given the age kid of this kid- it is much broader in terms of the general parenting. Did the parents know that this kid was running a blog? Had they ever observed him being a daredevil before? What kinds of rules did they have in place for the trip? How was the child raised in generally with rules and consequences?

 

Despite your best efforts at rules and structures as a parent, kids do make independent decisions, and sometimes they are bad. Shoot, even adults from 18 -100 will have more than one or two and get behind the wheel of a car; never been in trouble before yet now we can add DUI to their record. Does that make their parents bad? Before you can pass judgment on the parents choice, you need to know the answer to such questions, and we never will.

Parents are responsible for their children's behavior. With that said, If something would have happened you know that the cruise line would be held responsible for having the pool open and no attendants around monitoring the area. There were other passengers in the pool so clearly there needed to be supervision by Princess staff if only for the protection of the cruise line. A few years ago my company was sued by a women who walked into the glass window that was positioned between two sets of double doors. She was texting and walked passed the door and into the glass and broke her nose. The case went to court and see won based on the fact that the store didn't have a decal or warning sign on the glass. I don't know how a decal on the window would have helped if she missed the obvious exit signs on the two doors. This is our legal system.

No desk in D737. No shelves in the bathroom either which I found annoying.

We stayed in Dolphin 737 Aft 2 years ago and yes there was a desk as you walked in the room on the left.

I commend anyone that chooses to dress up to the nines. You will look great so don't be surprised if people say WOW & offer compliments. Be sure & visit the various photo stations for photos.

Which ship & cruise will you be on?

Tom😀

I see you got off the Coral Sea in 67, I was on the Waddell chasing the Coral Sea in 68.

Scan the Patters & dump them.

No one wants all the junk after your dead anyway. We gave up on saving all the stuff years ago, including all the photo albums.

It's easier for the family to erase all the info after we're gone.

My DW and I have been cruising twice a year since we were married on the Sapphire in 2005. We have patters and every piece of pillow candy in each envelope. Our kids can just throw out each box. We're not concerned whether or not they what them. They're easily gotten rid of.

Does anyone know if Princess (or any cruise line for that matter) will be using the new locks now that they are open? Have cruised through the old locks and would like to go through the new locks for a new experience.

Yes we have a cruise scheduled on the CB in March of 2018.

Last time on the Grand little less than a year and a half ago there was a guys wearing shorts, tank top and flips to dinner regularly one table over from us. Plenty of people in sports jersey's. Definitely didn't seem any sort of dress code was being enforced.

I would talk to the maître d' and find out why they are allowing people in the dining room dressed as you described. I'm sorry, people wearing tank tops don't belong in the dining room.

Just booked a premium balcony right along the back of Deck 10 of the Caribbean Princess for a European cruise this summer. We really use our balcony when we have one and keep the door open when we are in the room (but not overnight) and were excited about the advertised wake views. Then my mother said she had a friend (and frequent Princess cruiser) who had a rear-facing suite on a Princess ship and that they would never do it again because of soot problems. Can anyone who had cruised in a rear-facing balcony, on Caribbean Princess or otherwise, let me know if they found soot to be a problem? Thanks!

On the Grand , Star, and the CB each 10 day cruises, we never saw any soot on either Dolphin, or Cribe decks aft suites.

I use business card sheets in a three ring binder. I think the medallions will fit in the slips:)

Not knowing what the medallions are made of, I wonder if Princess will want to reuse them. In the old days you were required to turn in our cruise cards. I wonder if Princess will require staggered boarding, like they attempt to do now. We have a Panama Canal March 1 on the CB, so we will miss it by a couple of weeks.

This is a silly argument. The art auctions are more intrusive than the spa people in the hall outside the Horizon court when they put up their paintings in easels in Explorer's Lounge and all along the walkway in front of it.

When my DW and I were on the Grand in October, we went to the Explorers to listen to the future cruise lecture. You couldn't find a seat because of all the paintings, and had trouble listening because of the chatter from the PW employees.

Wish that my wife and I had been on this cruise. The compensation offered for missing a few sea day and the port of Ensenada (bleh...) is awesome. The sea days were mostly compensated by the slow return to Hawaii and missing Ensenada is certainly no hardship. The compensation is awesome. :)

My DW and I said the same thing about the Grand engine fire, we were on the cruise before it.