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There are sometimes quirks on the Princess (or any other) website.

As long as you have your cabin # confirmed I do not see how anyone else could book it. Please do not worry about this...you can check your Personaliser from time to time and as long as your cabin # stays the same you are good to go. If at any time it changes you can then call Princess right away and ask for your cabin back. We have done this in the event of an unwanted upgrade.

Steve

The outside HP cabins are (i think) always located at the elevator lobby/ head of the stairs and do have wider doors than usual. Those needing an HP cabin should call 1-800-PRINCES

to book one.

I gotta say that the wheelchair spaces on Royal are in a very nice spot to watch the shows.

If a passenger opts out of the standard tips, then the steward, waiter, and asst waiter must turn in their tips to the pool. Only if the pax leaves the standard tips in and then gives additional personal tips to select crew members can they keep all of their personal tips.

Steve

!!! ship time stays on the same time as the port it sails from and does not change in different time zones . !!!

This is absolutely incorrect. The ship's time changes with each and every time zone. Do believe 737...you are notified when it will happen.

How about CARNIVAL CIRCUS ??

We took the Monkey Island boat tour. It was a pretty long day but well worth it. Bring some Craisins if you want to feed the Capuchin monkeys...they go bananas for them.

Do bring more water than you think you need...it is hot and you do not want to get (like me) dehydrated and wind up in the Med Center the next day.

Steve

I guess I'll just have to imagine.

As others have stated, it is very much like a standard Mini, except several feet longer. It is a great cabin and srpilo's front porch post is correct. We spent much of our canal passage out there with few others.

Steve

Icelandair does have connections from YYZ-Toronto via Keflavik to CPH-Copenhagen.

As my neighbor Lucky advises, the cameras (and watches) onboard can be sometimes gotten at better prices onshore. But if you use OBC you may not be spending actual money so here it might be a good idea.

Steve

Is OP referring to the deck plan section? You used to be able to go to a deck & move around the entire deck...now you have to do it by Forward, Mid-forward, Mid-aft, & Aft. It can be a pain.

Usually it one of the Ladies hairdressers who has been trained as a barber.

I recently finished a submarine book on WW2, "USS Seawolf". The author says that the sailors hated going to the barbershop in Australia because barbers were called hairdressers.

Not the tropics (Southampton England is NOT tropical), but we got there and it was pouring like Noah & his ark weather. We told a construction worker "we came here to get away from this nonsense" but he assured us there is no escape in South England.

Last year we booked on Royal that later showed as lower than the class should have been...I think it was something like $1199 but when we clicked on the cabin it showed as $899, so we called to get a price cut. "Forget it! they replied, it's a typo and we're not doing it."

Oh well, sigh.

Ours say Elite and we don't let the color of the tags bother us because we're too frugal (some say "cheap" but what do they know?) to even have a color cartridge in the printer.

Steve

http://boards.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?t=2239308&highlight=wine+list

I posted this in October. It is post # 17 on the thread. Feel free to copy and paste into your browser.

Can't help with menus.

Steve

Bonjour, Twickenham...I had seen Turkish but their flight arrives in Rome near midnight, so we would prefer an extra half-day to see the sights again.

Merci, Steve

book two one-ways as these have always been much cheaper than booking one ticket as an "open jaw". Ex. SFO to Rome and return Fort Lauderdale to SFO has always priced out for me much lower as two one-ways.

This is what we will probably do next 5 October 2016. We are flying BOS to Rome-FCO and back from FLL, which brings me to the Important Question for people familiar with DUB & its connections...

Aer Lingus has a flight from BOS arriving Dublin 05:05. Layover is only 1h 25m with the Rome leg departing 06:30.

All thoughts or opinions welcomed. (Princess air quotes are not yet open. We will decide after we get their info.)

Thank you, Steve

We always pack early...usually 2 or 3 weeks. Our dog hated suitcases (he would have dragged them out of the house and peed on them if he could) because he knew he was getting sent away to the sitters.

Steve & Pete

yes, as Capriccio says all Minis have the curtain

We have in the past gotten price cuts applied retroactively, but Princess seems to be running sales and not price cuts so you can no longer "have it both ways."

However, if the lower price is due to a special Princess promotion then that promotion might not include amenities (prepaid gratuities, AIBP, etc.) that were included when you booked the cruise and then you would have to give them up to get the new promotion.

We have had this happen when making cabin changes and such. If you want to do it, go ahead, but your bonus offers from the original booking might disappear because you are past the cutoff date for the bonus offers.

Steve

I looked at AerLingus for late June...you can do ORD to AMS one-way for +/-$700.

(This message from a fan of Icelandair.)

Yes, I know all too well. They take the order but don't deliver before the show starts.

We once saw a bar steward put a drink temporarily on the stage. The show started before he got it delivered and the stage crew were awfully sore with him...Do not know if his career survived this bone-headed move.

Steve

Shortly before the cruise I found we had been upgraded to a handicapped accessible balcony on Caribe deck. A truly free multi-class upgrade.

We had one of those on Emerald in 2013...What a cabin! It was a Thursday notification for a cruise leaving that Saturday.

OTOH on another cruise we got an unasked-for upgrade to a location we did not want. We called right away and asked (& got) our original cabin back.

Steve