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If you haven't already, I would post this on the Celebrity board where it will be seen by many more people who can compare the two ships. As for itineraries, more time on a cruise is better to me. I also lived in Italy for 5 years and have visited the ports except Split either by ship or land. I like the Constellation's itinerary better. I would start with at least 4 days in Rome if you've never been there before. When disembarking in Ravenna and not wanting to go to Venice post cruise, I would think about Bologna and the surrounding region for great food (Reggio Emilia, Parma, Modena, etc.)

As @hrhdhdnotes the port only offers one very limited shuttle. Maybe you were lucky last time since you were traveling between ships both part of Royal Caribbean Group. I've heard that offering a large tip to a taxi driver helps.

Duffey's Sports Grill is located in the Harbor Shops right next to Hyatt Place. It's a local south Florida sports bar chain.

It sounds like it would be best to drop of your passengers, luggage, and wheelchairs at the terminal first before parking the RV. From the Port Miami website https://www.miamidade.gov/portmiami/parking-information.asp: Surface Lot E Open lot with no overhead clearance with designated spaces for oversized vehicles Accommodates oversized vans, recreational vehicles and vehicles with trailers $22 per space, per day. If two spaces are utilized, $44 per day If assistance is needed to park an oversized vehicle, please call 305-960-5463 or 305-960-6454 and in the Frequently Asked Questions https://www.miamidade.gov/portmiami/faq-cruise.asp: Is there shuttle service at PortMiami? PortMiami provides free shuttle service between terminals only when a ship departs from one terminal and returns to a different terminal (i.e., departure from Terminal G, post-cruise arrival at Terminal B). Still have questions? Contact PortMiami Customer Service at 305-347-4800 or by email.

Do you know if most of the other people on the tour are from your ship? In that case, the tour is highly unlikely to leave anyone behind if everyone is disembarking at approximately the same time. Confirm with your tour vendor if the ship's arrival is late or the port is bypassed entirely, how are refunds handled. We use non-ship tours almost exclusively and one of my requirements for any advance payment is that cancellations due to late or no arrival be refundable.

How did you make the booking? If you used a travel agent, you must cancel through the agent. If you used a Princess Cruise Vacation Planner (CVP) reach out to her/him. If you just called the main number do so again and it should only take a few minutes as others have reported.

Which posts are saying that? Cabin 16621 is a Penthouse Suite and on all Princess ships that is a full suite. Here is the description of that specific cabin on the Sun Princess: Enjoy your cruise!

This is exactly what we did on our December Seascape cruise. Lunch at Butcher's Cut was delicious and there were very few other diners.

We always spend Thanksgiving week with family but if you wait until the following week to cruise you can score good deals and share the ship with many fewer fellow passengers. We've gotten great prices on cruises departing between the week after Thanksgiving and mid-December.

We've done 3 Alaska cruises, all included Glacier Bay and 2 included College Fjord. National Park rangers will be broadcasting over the PA system in Glacier Bay (which, IIRC is about a 6 hour trip up and back). You can also hear their narratives on the television should you decide to sit on your balcony (although I agree with others that it is best to get up and about). They seemed to me to be concentrating the announcements more on the first half of the trip. I think they have lectures for adults and a presentation for the kids on the return trip. On our visits to College Fjord the on board naturalists did the narration. We've been fortunate to have some first rate naturalists on Princess Alaska cruises. Watch the Patter for their presentations and those of other experts brought on in port. If Libby Riddles, the first woman to win the Itidarod, comes on board (usually with at least one of her dogs), don't miss her presentation.

What cabin number? Off the top of my head elevators are usually in lobbies and don't share a wall with cabins.

Not recently (2016) and not at FRA but we had no issue arranging to meet the Uniworld transfer at Charles de Gaulle. I think my TA handled the contact with Uniworld. They told us the name and contact number of the driver, where (a specific area outside of customs) to meet, and the time. It worked like a charm, There were even chairs to sit on while waiting for the small group (less than a dozen including us) arrived on a few different flights.

Are you disembarking in Fort Lauderdale? If so, you will not be allowed to use the escalator in the terminal since you must have one hand free and the port has personnel standing at the top of the escalator checking. For years there was quite a quite loud and emphatic gentleman who took his job very seriously. I haven't seen him on my last disembarkation (July). His replacements have been emphatic but much quieter. Be prepared that you may have a wait for an elevator.

Too small for lounges and the chairs don't recline! In my opinion that makes the ability to get a lounge on the Signature Sun Deck whenever you want one even more important.

You were absolutely clear to anyone who has sailed on the other Princess ships and had to rush to the Sanctuary, regardless of the cabin category, immediately upon embarking. If you wanted lounges for the entire week in the Caribbean, you needed to be among the first to arrive. In fact I think one of the most common questions about the Sanctuary here on Cruise Critic is how come you can't reserve lounges in advance? My reaction to the new Signature Sun Deck amenity was, finally a way to at least know you will have a lounge at any time of the day, any day of the cruise. That was definitely appealing to us and we are willing to pay for it included in our fare. And since we are paying for it, we expect to receive it.

Thank you @CatMom72 for so eloquently expressing our concerns too. We don't need to make final payment until the fall for our January 2025 cruise so I'm hoping Princess can work things out. Otherwise we will switch to an MSC Yacht Club cruise. While Princess is our favorite cruise line when cruising with friends and family a couple of times a year, when we sail alone and want to be pampered we stopped booking Princess suites and switched to MSC. We are hoping that the suite experience on the Sun class of ships would more closely resemble that on MSC.

Elites and suites get priority disembarkation (to the tenders). No one gets priority embarkation to return to the ship. Non tender ports everyone is treated the same.

I haven't seen any concerning articles in the local paper so that's a good thing. We avoid the Fort Lauderdale Beach strip (route A1A) at all costs in March. We made that mistake once - it looked like the beach was standing room only - and never again because beach goers have to cross A1A (a four lane road) to get to the beach and most visitors must come from places that don't have cross walks because they are crossing the street where ever they want and without even looking. So other than the usual traffic, so far so good.

If you decide to book with Princess, ask for a cruise vacation planner (CVP) that functions like an in-house agent and that will work with you not only making the reservations but also if you have questions and problems leading up to the cruise. I personally have used a travel agent for more than a decade. Princess allows travel agents to offer reduced fares (that come out of their commissions) but they are not allowed to publicize them. Making some phone calls or emails to local and on-line agents could save you a considerable amount of money. My TA's fare reductions run between 7 and 12% and frequently she adds some on board credit (OBC) to that. One other recommendation whether you cruise with Princess or another line: read The Path Between the Seas by David McCullough before you go. Welcome to Cruise Critic!

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But almost half the year (early October to late March) the Sun will be in Caribbean. I'm sure Princess realized they needed to take that into consideration.

We had a similar experience as you on our 2020 Meraviglia YC cruise. On the Seascape cruise our butler and his assistant couldn't do enough for us without us even asking. So maybe it is just luck.

If you post on or even just take a look at the Florida Departures forum, you will get recommendations for shuttles. https://boards.cruisecritic.com/forum/386-florida-departures/

I found the email we received 6 days before our December YC cruise on the Seascape encouraging us to customize our categories. The newspaper is delivered daily; the minibar allows one choice (although you can make a second selection in case the first isn't available) and that is what was waiting for us in our cabin upon embarkation. Customize your experience by choosing your daily newspaper. Here are the categories: Newspaper (offered by country; this is the choice of US papers): Washington Post New York Times New York Post LA Times Wall Street Journal MiniBar: I think there were a few more that got cut off in my print screen. Pillows:

That would make sense but is still a long time away. The next Brightline station was announced ta few weeks ago. It will be located in Stuart (Martin County) and must, as the result of a lawsuit, open by 2028 but the company is saying it will open in the second half of 2026.