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That’s a lot of Alaska! Sadly it misses some beautiful scenery by taking the route outside of Vancouver Island, rather than the other side.

Have you checked some of the larger online travel agencies? They may have group space held. I googled your date and a couple came up.

On our recent cruise with 5 time changes, I manually changed the time on my phone as we didn’t have wifi package. My Apple Watch always synced with whatever my watch said. As long as the blue tooth is on should be fine.

We disembarked the Emerald TA on November 23. They had salads in the IC for the first week, then they disappeared. I don’t know if it was cutbacks as much as fine tuning to what was moving and not. Maybe they were not popular? They were really good! Beet salads, etc. The Buffet was fantastic for salads too though. Service throughout the ship was wonderful. Food was good. The coffee the first few days was so watery it was like dishwater in the MDR. Possibly a bit better in the buffet. They left comment cards in our rooms around day 4 and we commented on the coffee and it seemed to improve. They were very proactive and left comment cards twice during our voyage. We did get coffee cards and as had been our experience on other ships, they often don’t “deduct” your coffee drinks, so it is virtually unlimited. Our cruise was 16 days and I asked on day 10 how many I had left and they said 11 drinks! What?! Lol. Especially when it is the same barista daily, I think they don’t really check, but just see you have some type of package. Re: the soap, we don’t like the liquid so our steward did bring us bars. I forgot to bring my own shampoo and conditioner (ugh!) and used their combo stuff which is awful. Never again.

Lol, the menu was never the same which is why we walked over to look at the actual board.

Worldwide. Viruses don’t respect borders. Just returned from a month overseas and it seemed like there were sick people everywhere. DH caught the nasty RSV and battled it for 3 weeks of our vacation. I don’t think I’ve ever seen him so sick.

Was on the Emerald last month in Da Vinci. Was not publicized and we only knew as we walked over to look at the menu. It wasn’t busy.

I don’t know of any hotels in that area, aside from the Holiday that’s been there for years. You might look at Airbnb in that area. The mount pleasant area is cute and funky, with great food options, but I wouldn’t try to walk downtown from there as you might end up going through the downtown east side, which you do NOT want to see. Closer to Cambie, you could walk across the Cambie street bridge but it’s a fair walk. You could also catch the skytrain at Cambie into town. Or Uber.

Thank you!

Thanks, good to hear.

We are looking at a Hawaii Cruise in January on the Crown Princess. The reviews I’ve read are not good, but they are from earlier in the year when she was having mechanical issues, etc in Alaska. Princess website says she was last refurbed in Oct 2022. Does anyone know what was done, or anyone been on her since then? TIA

Since we are just off a TA where people freely coughed, hacked and sneezed while serving themselves in the buffet, I wouldn’t be against this. One woman sneezed into her hand, then proceed to serve herself with the tongs. At least when seated we can choose to be away from others.

We used a taxi last week to get to the Renaissance FL Marina as I didn’t have phone service. Never again! Cab was filthy. I hadn’t been to FLL in years but knew it was close by, he turned the wrong way and when I pointed out our hotel, he said it was a condo!? He took us to the Hilton Marina and when I said it was the wrong hotel, he took us back. I paid him in cash and he asked for a tip! What! I just said no, because he took us to the wrong hotel and didn’t listen when I pointed out the right one. I felt like saying, “No, because you’re bad at your job!”. Next time, I will be sure to use Uber or Lyft.

So, nothing to report back as I decided to go with another cruiseline that we also had cruise deposits for.

I agree, hotel prices everywhere are elevated for next year. I guess they’ll try to get what they can as people start travelling again. We always book on our own a cancellable rate, and keep watching the prices. Next fall is a long way away.

At the International Cafe which you can use your Princess Plus for, we had Mighty Leaf brand, but they didn’t have it in all varieties (likely supply issues as we had all on previous cruises). They supplemented it with twinings. If they can get it, it should be a premium tea like Mighty Leaf. Upstairs in the buffet they had twinings, and another brand that I hadn’t heard of, but this was a T/A so I think that was a one off sourced in the UK.

On our cruises earlier in the year when masks were still required, it was indoors only and except when eating or drinking. I really doubt they are expecting it outdoors.

The website has been doing too many strange things lately. My PVP said they have too many overlapping sales right now.

We had it on the Emerald recently and back in the spring they had it in the Majestic, over in the dessert section by the coffee bar in the afternoons.

Thanks, that is exactly wha ours looks like so it does help! The cruise im looking at is already in full payment date, so I’ll have to see if it comes off of the total.

No, I booked it myself through Celebrity.

On a recent cruise I purchased cruise later deposits for each of us with the plan to book something when we got home. I could be mistaken, but I am sure I had seen these FCCs showing in my account about a week later. Anyway, now when I log into my account, there is just a blank future cruise booking with a number. I was trying to book a cruise online, and I can’t see any way to apply my Cruise later deposits. I do have the email confirmations too, but no numbers on them. Is this something I’ll have to call in to do?

Is anyone else having website issues today? My future cruises won’t load, specials won’t load either.

We are just off the Emerald Princess and the Love Boat Dream and the Pistachio Dome were the same as they have always been. These pictures look like they have been given a new “interpretation” by the individual ship executive chef. Consistently would be nice.

Wow! That is impressive. But it does look a lot more like a Canada Day celebration than Thanksgiving. Where are those fall colours? Someone made an effort, but would they have July 4th decorations for American Thanksgiving?