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7 hours ago, swjumbo said:

Best thing you can do with ducks is set them free…… over the side!

Quack, quack, bye bye!

That's the last thing you'd want to do. There's enough plastics in our oceans.

We used Aqua Cars in September. Driver met us right outside bag claim. We were very satisfied. Great driver who was very informative about surroundings on drive and about things to do in and around Southampton. Will use them again.

42 minutes ago, 555 said:

Looks like they want to give the buffet a new image.

I don't really care as long as the quality remains the same.

Think the point was March 17th is St Patrick's Days. I just go for the green beer.

20 minutes ago, d9704011 said:

Well, every individualmis checked when they leave the ship and come back onboard.  I suppose if you've got one medallion to flash in order to join a line and your own medallion for security that will work but it will leave somebody without their medallion.  Unless you have an even morusines se complicated scheme to get in a line.

New business opportunity. Coming soon to Ebay, door decoration, or duck tag.                          Want to get to the front of the line, and impress your fellow cruisemates with your status. Buy my used medallions and save space on my refrigerator.🤪

On 3/1/2024 at 9:18 AM, Mumpurple said:

Tried emailing and calling several times, call handlers have been 100% ineffective. I need an email address or phone number or WhatsApp number for someone in their senior management team.

6 hours ago, Lonedaddy said:

But she wasn't a little girl but a seasoned mom and grandma at time, so she just let it roll off her.  

Haha! She is actually called the poops Toots ( Tutu is a local name for Grandma ) by the youngest grandboy as she is the prefered diaper changer. As for the Koala, it's a No Go. Mahalo for the options.

Here I'm thinking I've come up with a surprise for my animal loving wife. I booked a ship tour to Lone Pine and was contemplating alternative transportation to stay longer and enjoy more of the encounters. I've already booked the pictures with the Koala option and wanted to get there early to do the hold a Koala experience. I brought it up just seeing if she'd be excited and she said the last thing she'd do was hold a Koala as she did this as a young girl at San Diego Zoo and it peed on her. She said she was traumatized and wasn't going to get near one. Guess I'm looking for something else to do in Brisbane.😆

7 hours ago, cr8tiv1 said:

Both airports are far from the port.  There is more to do in San Francisco before embarkation.  

You forgot Long Beach, the jewel of SoCal. Great airport and close to San Pedro.

8 hours ago, charliemikeoh said:

We don't do Disney or Hollywood ... but sailing under the Golden Gate Bridge --- that sounds AMAZING!!!

Another consideration is if you plan on coming in a few days early San Fran has more attractions. Just stay away from downtown. If you plan on cutting it close, I'd definitely chose Los Angeles as weather delays can build quickly in San Francisco. 

9 hours ago, arxcards said:

These are the beers showing on the app, plus VB as well. It isn't exhaustive, and I expect some will be replaced by US beers on the relocation.

 

Thank-you! Going to have to figure which ones I like best and start provisioning my cabin for when they switch over. 

21 minutes ago, alrichards4003 said:

We arrived at the port around 6. I had made reservations in the app for the Specialty dining and main dining room for the week. I made the MDR reservation for 7:20 and we still didn’t make it. It was almost 90 minutes to get on the ship. We then did our muster drill and went to dinner around 8:30. We didn’t have an issue getting a table after missing the reservation. Dinner was very good and included versus the cruise tour.

What dining room was that and do you remember table #. Looks like a stand alone 2 top, just the type we really enjoy.

Mahalo

7 minutes ago, MissP22 said:

I hope you reported it. 

At the very least they should have given you some OBC as compensation. 

Happened first day ( actually 3rd ) of a 26 day cruise and didn't report it. Figure live and learn and if we didn't get anything didn't want to be pissed off. On one of our first cruises on HAL, my wifes dress got burned from the sparklers durning the baked Alaska parade. We didn't even have to ask, we got a claim form for her dress and a bunch of OBC. The "good Ole Days" of customer service.

16 hours ago, karatemom2 said:

The other thing you can request is press only. Although we generally pack our nicer clothes like suits or dresses in a garment bag, they still get wrinkled. So, we often will give them to our steward right away after boarding  to go to laundry for pressing only. We usually get them back next day which is super helpful if there is a formal night on one of the first sea days. 

We did that, never again. Took 3 days and they burned my wifes pants. I'd rather go iron in the laundry room.

1 minute ago, Teechur said:

The balconies on Emerald deck cabins are huge (on both sides of the ship) in the aft section.

The furthest aft balcony cabin is partially covered and you do have the viewing area just around the corner. We really liked the mini on the Caribe deck.

One of our favorite cabins. C731 a "new" mini on the Island. Semi wrap around balcony. Plexiglass balcony wall was great compared to a metal one. Cabin was of the new design with the wall mounted TVs and the separation curtain.

12 hours ago, dreaminofcruisin said:

I have read on CC in the past that bartenders alerted you to the fact that you were at 15. No such notification to our group. 

1 hour ago, Thrak said:

I just check my folio in the app on my phone.

If you go to Packages on the app, there is a bar graph which shows how many drinks you've been charged for the period. I also check my folio daily in the app, this one feature has made it easy to track your account. I just wait for ones that will outwardly affect me, then go to GS to get it fixed.

7 hours ago, SCX22 said:

Princess might need the extra cash to fix their IT problems...I jest. 

The Truth Hurts.

4 hours ago, KarmaCruisers said:

I wondered if I did..just worried I may be stuck holding on to $15,000 of useless paper.

They get their money no matter what. Your folio doesn't close out till the end of your cruise, so you can keep paying it down. You won't be able to deposit them via kiosk but will have to take them to GS desk to do it. Think positive, after 1st 5k you'll hit it big and keep 10k for next comp cruise😀 I used to live in Las Vegas and when people asked me if I gambled, I say "Yes I got married a second time and Saturday makes 36yrs and I'm still trying to figure out if I won or lost".

7 hours ago, beg3yrs said:

Anyway, we try to redeem our GCs near the end of the voyage so we have a good idea where we sit and not over-redeem. Usually only do that once a voyage but I seem to recall one voyage where we redeemed twice with no issues.

This is what we do. Next cruise we'll wait till the onboard currency changes from AUD to USD to apply our GCs

8 hours ago, cruzsnooze said:

Gift card balance will go back to the gift card not refunded as a check.

Did you use more then one device per person which was the allotment on your plus package causing the extra charges?

Not exactly correct. I've had it both ways depending on type of Gift Card used. The only time I've had money returned to gift cards was refunds on AARP bought cards during Covid for full cruise refund. I've gotten checks for gift cards I've deposited for OBC that came from Barclays Princess card.

7 hours ago, arxcards said:

Seems about right for cocktails. Wines by the glass had a lower cap. The prices I quoted are for wines listed on the app last Feb. We had premier.

 

I will confirm current prices on Monday.

How about a beer list Please!! We'll be on the Majestic for 40 days with 15 port stops, that leaves a lot of time for Beer drinking😀

Mahalo

I use several that you can easily input every filter you'd like. Of course they can't be mentioned. Start with a Google search of 

Online Cruise Planner

Cruise Industry Online Search Engine

Best online Cruise search engine.

You'll run through a few till you find one that delivers all you ask. My Mom used to love to get her Cruise Atlas and start lining things up. Just like a kid at Christmas with the Sears Catalog. 

I don't ever add any personal info, when asked I close and go to the next

6 hours ago, Teechur said:

There are two lamps near the bed(s). Do they both plug into this one outlet? TIA!

We use the adapter that is pictured above. It allows you to plug the lamp on and an extension cord. We plug a small cord into the adapter and branch it off so both sides have a power plug for devices.

1 hour ago, Nodakboiler said:

Is the charge to your Medallion or do you need cash/coins?

Medallion

8 hours ago, LindsayC said:

4. We are in a mini suite on Dolphin deck. We are doing a 10 night Carribean cruise in October. Will the uncovered balcony be a problem?

I'll get grief for this and it was a long time ago.Not a word was said about this at the time. They were secured to upside down table and we took them down when not outside. This is how we covered our balcony on a Panama Canal cruise where only mini suites available were uncovered. Learned to book early to get covered Emerald Deck Mini's. 

1 hour ago, skynight said:

USPS will only stop mail for 30 days. If delayed beyond 30 days it is returned to the sender. If you are away longer than 30 days you have to make other arrangements. I have someone in the community who watches my home and picks up the mail for a small cost. Our mail is delivered to a central community mailbox location, not to the home. 

What you can also do is have a friend or even a very friendly mail person, It's amazing what a yearly Christmas gift to them will do, put in a second hold slip. Our Mailwoman used to do this for my Mom every year. I commute and am all over the place and have found a valuable service is the USPS mail notification service, with this service you get a preview of what's in your daily mail delivery. I designed my mailbox at my Hawaii home so my mail goes through a slot into my garage closet and into a large kitchen garbage can. I can have a friend check anything I might have questions about. After a $2 pipe caused a 57K renovation in our LAS home, I've installed water shutoffs on my homes. It's a "T" handle we close on our way out. The outside water for sprinklers and pool fill still work, only no inside water. I carry my laptop and use a VPN to do anything I need secure on my laptop, or use cellular data in port to do any financial transactions. Facetime has gotten pretty good on board to be able to talk to the kids and grandkids.