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Tried to order Mermaid Mimosa. Canceled as none of the more expensive sparkling wine available. Tried to order watermelon margarita but canceled as none of the more expensive tequila available.

Upgraded beverage package is a bust thus far. If, like me, you don’t really care about wine the package is worthless. The handful of cocktails listed higher than the $12 are not available. I have tried to order 3 of the higher charged ones so far, just to test it out, but each time been told that the higher end alcohol is not available

Definitely issues. Guest services are slammed

Came back to drop something at the room …

Direct view into balconies from seawalk

After trivia and breakfast DS went to kids club and DD and BFF went to origami. They found out it had been canceled. I wanted to go to the retreat, but it’s closed. Time for a new plan.

Forgot to mention that I stopped by guest services on the way back to the room last night to get drink charges removed. The poor guy looked defeated. He said that he has been dealing with this all day. He explained that when the new packages were released, they were not added to the ship drink ordering software so it had to be done manually. Premiere package doesn’t yet exist in their system but does show on guest account. Plus package had a name change for the drink portion so this also has caused issues with their system. He gave me his card and told me he would take care of it and not to worry until a day or two before disembarking. At that point, if charges remained they would be removed. This morning, most charges have been reversed but now it’s back to charging us for drinks again - which had been fixed at some point yesterday.

Not according to this

International Cafe

Trivia winnings

I will take one tonight - I didn’t take much notice last night but we are using both the sofa and the bunk above

ArriveCAN notice- very confusing as the vast majority on this sailing are Canadian residents and the info regarding residents (if you go to the provided QR link) says this needed to be completed 72 hours prior to embarkation- which we did!?!

Todays Patter

Not that I have seen anywhere but I will keep a look out

Smoking area deck 16 aft

The gym was pretty lively this morning but I tried to get a picture without anyone in it!

Confirmed- there is no one in the connecting room next door

2,597 guests on board. It’s too early to do math so I will leave it up to someone else to figure out what capacity we are at. It certainly didn’t feel crowded anywhere on the ship yesterday. Off to the gym now

Yes we are in a connecting room. I heard no noise from there whatsoever. I’m not even sure there is anyone in there

Yes we are in a connecting room. I heard no noise from there whatsoever. I’m not even sure there is anyone in there

We headed back to the room around 10:30 last night and I unceremoniously told BFF to hang up the darned phone. There will be a “chat” with her today. I did not win anything with Princess Prizes on my return to the room last night. Observation about the room. I have never noticed the motion sensor lights before. Are they new? They drove me nuts last night as every time DS turned over, his sheet would trigger the light. Talking of sheets, the ones on these beds seem particularly crisp/new and they make a crinkling noise each time you move. Did I mention that DS is the most restless sleeper in the world? Lol. Despite that, I had a great sleep and love the Princess beds so much. The room was very quiet - not sure if there is anyone in the connecting room, but I didn’t hear a sound all night

I didn’t take too many ship pictures yesterday as we have been on Royal Princess so often, but here are a few

Interesting note. It doesn’t look as if we have a cruise director in this sailing. We have had the entertainment director doing announcements at the theatre and cruise staff doing game shows but no sign or mention of cruise director