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It let me select a cabana mini suite and then wanted a total of $570 -- $400 non-refundable deposit that would convert to OBC onboard, and $170 taxes/port fees. By the time I came back here and posted the screen shot above, and then went back to the Princess screen, it suddenly said no rooms were available. Either they figured it out or everyone here on CC is frantically booking free rooms 🙂

I'm seeing it too but am too chicken to actually book it 🙂

Judging from these comments I took it to mean 'all ships/all season': ".....and something all guests sailing this summer with Princess Cruises to Alaska is guaranteed to see. See the Northern Lights on Every Princess Cruise to Alaska in 2024." We are also on the Sapphire in 3 weeks 🙂 Maybe you can report back after next week and let us know!

@Ken the cruiser I'd love to hear any feedback or insight you have into the new features mentioned in this post, specifically the Voyage to the Stars Northern Lights theater presentation. Thanks!

We're doing a 15 day cruisetour starting May 24, with the land portion first and then Southbound cruise on Sapphire starting June 1. I'll be following along to get prepped for our trip 🙂 Looking forward to your reports!

Princess EZPay Installment Plan https://www.princess.com/en-us/plan/ezpay-cruise-payment-plan I've never used it but have seen it discussed here on CC. I just Googled 'Princess cruise Installment plan' and it was the first result.

Same here! We leave in 4 weeks and have had our excursions booked for months. All of them have gone WAY up in price, and the 'sale' prices reflected now at '20% off' are still much higher than we paid originally.

Your comments gave me pause so I just logged into my Personalizer and I am able to book my own transfers online just like always under the Flights & Transfers tab. I clipped the screen shot because I don't want our names on here, but everything looks just like it has in the past. Did you book direct? I know if you book with a TA then they have to book the transfers.

Follow up comment -- we were able to use the United app functionality to order meals, track bags, etc just like normal. We have United flights booked thru EZ Air for our trip home from our upcoming Alaska cruise and it shows up in our United account like normal.

I just checked my United account. We flew Polaris Class round trip to LHR last fall using EZ Air and we received PQPs.

This doesn't help your problem but my Princess CVP told me last year that Princess no longer has a dedicated shore excursion department.

Because it's a dreary Saturday afternoon where I live, I decided to use the time to re-price our upcoming Alaska trip. We are doing a 15 day Alaska cruisetour the last week of May and the first week of June 2024. To book the exact same trip with airfare and excursions right now would cost us $5,928 more than what we paid. It really does pay to book early and plan ahead 🙂

I get it -- some people go on several cruises a year and for us it's usually two. Also I can't say they NEVER have salads at IC -- we don't sit there 24/7 -- but I didn't see any on our January cruise and remember commenting to hubby about it. They used to have a shrimp salad that I haven't seem in a really long time. You can report back with your findings next month 🙂

Yeah as I said we enjoyed salads in the past too but on our 2023 & 2024 cruises we haven't seen any. I don't disagree they were available back in 2022 😀

The Island does unique itineraries so if you want to go to those places then that's the ship, IC or not 🙂 Also on our last few cruises we haven't seen any salads in the IC. I used to like the salads there too but haven't seen any in awhile. On our last cruise (January, Regal) the offerings appeared pared back from what we've seen and were primarily sandwiches and desserts.

That is correct -- the Island doesn't have an International Cafe but it has never had one to the best of my knowledge. We sailed on that ship last fall and it was one of the few things we missed 🙂 Otherwise we really liked the ship and didn't have any problems finding food at other venues.

We have an Alaska cruisetour booked for next month and in addition to posts here on CC (both this Princess forum and the Alaska forum) we found this Princess page helpful: https://www.princess.com/en-us/faq/cruisetours This page compares all the different cruisetour options in chart form: https://www.princess.com/learn/cruise-destinations/alaska-cruises/cruisetour-options/cruisetour-finder/ The attached Princess Alaska PDF also has good info. alaska-cruisetours-overview-what-to-expect.pdf.coredownload.inline.pdf

I just did a search using Google Chrome and it looked the same as usual to me.

Ours changed too with the exact same times (we're on Sapphire June 1) and we got a Booking Notice email from Princess a couple days ago on 4/17. It didn't explicitly say 'hey here's a change in the itinerary' but I looked it over and compared it to our prior documentation and noticed the change. I was actually very happy to arrive earlier in Skagway as we have a Jeep rented and with 3 other ships in port arriving at the same time we were hoping to beat the crowd. Now we should be able to with no problems. And the Glacier Bay time change was only about an hour shorter, so that doesn't bother us too much. Especially given that other sailings have times of 6am - 3pm or whatever -- I'd much rather have our time of 9 - 6 🙂

I just looked at our excursions after your post. We booked Hubbard Glacier for $299 and it's now $475! Others have increased as well, but none as much as that. It pays to book early.

Here's the one we got in February 2024.

We missed a port in January on the Regal. We've had this happen before as well and have always received a credit to our onboard folio. I would recommend double checking your final statement to verify you didn't get credit while onboard. If at the end of your cruise you have a credit balance in your account, they will mail you a check. If it's been 2 months you probably should have received a check by now for any credit balance you had on onboard.

One of our favorite features of the app is the ability to check our folio any time, without having to go to Guest Services. We check it frequently during cruises and take a screen shot on the last day. On our last cruise we got our folio emailed very promptly as well.

Edit to say I just saw your subsequent post about your flight leaving at 5:30 🙂 Sorry!

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