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Love:

Adagio's (missed it on CB)

Explorer's Lounge

Skywalker's

Walkable Promenade

Emerald is a close second to my all-time favorite - Island Princess

but now that they have changed the Island, Emerald might have taken

the top spot.

If you can live without the balcony - check out the Window Suite prices. Full Suite benefits and depending on where your balcony/mini suite cabin would be located, the Window Suite could be less.

We sailed in a Window Suite earlier this year and it was awesome!

Tracie -

I am so very sorry to hear of your loss. Even though I only know you from your posts and your wonderful 'live from' threads, my heart is sad for you.

Many prayers that your memories will comfort you.

If OP takes another Princess cruise before Alaska, she will be Platinum on the Alaska cruise. Assuming her husband is sharing her cabin, he will be allowed to embark/disembark with her. As for the Elite/Platinum/Suite nightly lounge, I can't see them denying his presence as they are in the same cabin!

OP - have a wonderful time in Alaska! It is spectacular!!

We are booked on the Royal Princess for next spring. Just to see for myself, I went to my Cruise Personalizer to check out the Beverage Packages for my cruise. The description for the Unlimited Soda and More has a disclaimer that shakes are not available on Ocean and Pacific Princess.

So, as a customer, what other due diligence is needed on my part to find out that shakes are not included on Royal?

I'm not interested in purchasing the package but have to disagree with those who have said the OP didn't read the terms of the package.

After deborahjo's post, I did hit "select" and still no warning that the shakes would not be available. Glitch?

FYI - bar service will have an auto-tip on it. No need to add an extra tip even though there is a line for it. If you get service you feel goes above and beyond, all tips are welcome! We typically tip our cabin steward a little extra at the end of the cruise.

Happy Sailing!

As a philatelist (stamp collector), I have found it to be a lot of fun to track down the local post office from port to port and mail things out. I often pick up some local stamps as souvenirs. Post offices can often be the hub of the community and are generally off the beaten path. This has provided me with lots of little adventures, opportunities to use different languages and some special, reasonably priced souvenirs to bring home.

Another thing we recently found was that some of the Post Offices in port will stamp your passport. We like that as we rarely get stamps in the passport anymore.

We have not been able to get stamps from the Pursers Desk for some of our Caribbean stops. We like to mail postcards to our Granddaughter so we hunt down a post office in port. Our experience has been about 60 - 70% chance of her actually getting them but we still try.

Take it! You won't be sorry! Enjoy Alaska!

We have done both Partial and Full transit. I find it interesting that the 10 day itinerary above states "Full Transit" when it is a Partial.

We preferred the Full transit as it gave you the complete experience from one ocean to the other. Many will say do the Partial and do an excursion on a small boat through the Pacific side locks. It's a personal decision. We loved the sea days so the 15 day was great. Have to admit that after a 15 day I felt our recent 7 day cruise was way too short:D

We waited 10 days or so after our last cruise to get ours. Just when I was about to give up, it was there!

Just to clarify - no laundry facilities on Fiesta Deck. The Window Suites are on this deck.

Another piece of advice - be sure to check the iron before you use it. I've been unfortunate enough to use an iron with some kind of gunk on it which meant a stain on my slacks.

I do love that Princess has laundry rooms! I like to pack light:)

I am one who has complained about how hard it is to track pricing on "Saved Cruises" but persistence did pay off!

I checked the Memorial Day Sale pricing and noticed our fare went down $50 pp. called Princess last night and got an even better deal! For some reason, I got a reduction of $100 pp. not looking that gift horse in the mouth!

This will be our first Inside so I'm determined to pay as little as possible. Going to be quite a change from our last cruise in a Window Suite! :D

I think Princess puts these rates on newly released sailing for the next year 2016.I got $500 less mine is a long cruise.Nearer sailing dates there is no passenger discount..

We have booked our last 3 cruises when they opened up and no discount for Past Passengers. Guess we take popular cruises that don't need to be discounted :)

Not just Holiday cruises. The past several cruises we have taken did not have a Past Passenger price. Disappointing :(

I have experienced the same circumstances and this is what happened to me.

They will be considered in transit on turn around day.

They will have one cruise card for the entire 20 days.

1 bottle per person per cruise.

They need to tell the Captains Circle host to add the extra cruise credits to their cruise history.

Thanks for the reply!

Question for a friend - they have booked a 20-day cruise on Royal that is also sold as 2 10-day cruises. (We will join them for the second 10 days)

Will they still be considered "in transit" on the turnaround day in FLL?

From comments here, it looks like they will have 1 cruise card for the 20-days?

Since they booked as 20-days, they can only bring on 1 bottle of wine each?

They are in a suite and will get 2 cruise credits but I think I have read on CC that sometimes the Captains Circle Host can get them double credits since the 20-day is also sold as 2 10-day cruises?

Whew! Hope I made some sense there!:eek:

Contest started in January, so it sounds as if they would have the movie on all 2015 cruises like the announcement said. Of course, not sure why they announce the contest in March if it did start in January.

 

Let's be serious! You would expect consistency on Princess? Perish the thought! :eek::D

I received mine today around 12:30 pm.

Thanks for the update! Got ours today too! Good to know they didn't forget about us :)

pcsunlover - have you received your survey from our recent CB cruise? I think I might call Princess tomorrow.

I also believe the surveys are important. I like to acknowledge outstanding crew members and have been told that is very important to them.

Thanks all!

If I don't get a survey in the next couple of days, I will contact Princess.

I think it also controls the plugs as once during the daytime I hadn't put a card in the slot & the TV didn't work. I also use an old cruise card but any credit card size works.

 

One annoying thing about the Royal's electrical system...when turning on the light in the closet area it also turns on a bright ceiling light over the bed. :( That results in waking up my wife if I turn on the closet area light outside of the bathroom. To me that's a "what were they thinking" scenario because on other Princess ships these lights can be operated independently. I'll soon learn if this mistake was repeated on the Regal...hope not. ;)

Thanks Astro! We will be sure to take a library card or some such 'safe' option!

I really hope we get the survey. There are several outstanding crew members we want to recognize. Even though we tipped them extra (in addition to auto-tip) and filled out the "You Made a Difference" cards, I always like to mention them in the survey also.

If I am charging electronics and don't have a card in the slot (when we are out of the room), will they still charge? Or is it just the lights that are controlled? Looking forward to our first cruise on the Royal next year!

Thanks!

We have usually gotten it the day we disembarked. We got off the CB last Saturday and it still hasn't shown up. Someone reported here that it was taking a week. Guess time will tell:)