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Thanks everyone! It looks like Sapphire is the clear winner. Once someone mentioned the pizza place, we looked to make sure it was Alfredos and that clinched it. My husband and I love Alfredos! 😋💜🍕 We welcome any other suggestions for an Alaska cruise tour...

We are thinking about booking an Alaska cruise on Princess. Which ship, and pros/cons? Our choices are Caribbean, Coral, or Sapphire. We are currently on Emerald, so comparisons to this ship would be appreciated... We will also be doing a land tour, so tips for that portion of the trip are also appreciated.

Thank you so much! We thought we had wifi included but couldn’t remember about tips…

Well, that was fancy, but I couldn’t look at any results - mostly a blank page…

Well, we may have known when we booked it, but have forgotten between then and now! 🤓😂

Thanks! I didn’t even think about using chat and was unaware that the TA could change that section of the website. 😀

No, not b2b cruises - one in January and one in February. I think we booked both through American Express. When I input the booking number the cruise showed up and I was able to Manage the Booking, so I’m not worried that I’m not booked. I would just like it to show up in my future cruises so I don’t have to have the booking number every time I try to look at it.

Hi - we are cruising on Princess in January and again in February. Only the January cruise is showing up on the Upcoming Cruises section of the Princess website. There used to be a link from that page that would allow me to add a missing cruise, but that link is no where to be found. Does anyone know how I go about getting the missing cruise added to the Upcoming Cruises page? I was able to find a link from the FAQ page that allowed me to access my booking by inputting my name, birth date, and booking number, but it didn’t add the cruise permanently, so I would have to input that info again every time I want to access the February cruise. Thanks!

It’s been a while since we were on RCCL. Sailing in a Crown Loft Suite - what will be included? Any wifi, tips, drinks, etc. I assume we have the Coastal Kitchen to eat in. What else? Thanks!

That would be an interesting solution! Does anyone know if the Scenic ships have been sailing with a full ship?

We had figured out we weren’t going to be on the Jade and were thankful our cruise wasn’t cancelled since we had left home on Saturday. We are truly looking forward to our first river cruise! I ended up on crutches, but I’m ready to make the best of it!

We are supposed to board the Scenic Jade tomorrow in Budapest, but she is still in Cologne with engine issues. We received notification this morning that we will be on the Scenic Pearl instead, so it looks like your cruise will either be cancelled or on another ship, as our cruise will not end until May 18th.

We are supposed to board the Jade tomorrow in Budapest and finally received emails this morning that we will be on the Pearl instead. I’ve been following the Jade’s non-progress on my Marine Traffic app, so I figured that would be the answer, but it took them a long time to notify us.

I was reading your blog - thank you for that! I grew up in the 1000 Islands along the Seaway Trail. In the St Lawrence Seaway Shipwatchers Facebook page, everyone is following the Octantis’ travels up the St. Lawrence River and they were wondering if there were passengers onboard, so I shared a link to your blog. I’m so sorry that you missed the beautiful 1000 Islands because you were traversing the area at night. There are two beautiful castles and many more gorgeous islands/cottages to see in that area. If you ever get a chance to return to the 1000 Islands, you should go!

Hi Colleen - do you know what the next cruise was after you disembarked? Where it was leaving from? I grew up on the St. Lawrence River and everyone up there has been posting photos of the Octantis heading downriver. They are all wondering if the ship is traveling with passengers onboard on their way to Toronto for the Great Lakes cruises. I would assume there was some sort of repositioning cruise to get to Toronto - do you know any info? Thanks! Patti

Thank you! We are supposed to be on the Jade, but aren’t positive because of the engine issues she has had. Current Jade passengers are traveling on the Pearl. Could you please tell me how dressy the dinners are? The men are trying to decide whether to take a jacket and the women are wondering how dressy we need to be…

😂How could you tell its my first Scenic cruise? My first River cruise of any kind! We've been on over 50 ocean cruises, but this will be the first river cruise. Thank you for the info!

Our best guess is that this is a luggage tag - are we correct?

The Pearl is currently replacing the Jade (which had engine trouble) on an Amsterdam to Budapest cruise, so it will be in Budapest on the day you were supposed to board it in Amsterdam. We are scheduled to leave from Budapest to Amsterdam on the Jade next Wednesday, but it’s possible we will be on the Pearl if the Jade’s engines aren’t fixed. The Jade has left Duisburg where they took it after having engine trouble. It is currently underway to Cologne. I don’t know if more repairs are needed or if it is ultimately heading to Budapest for our May 4th cruise. 🤷🏼‍♀️

I saw that! I’m taking that as a positive sign that our May 4th cruise will go as planned…😀 I was glad to see that there didn’t appear to be any tugboats pushing/pulling her along!

We are leaving on our first Scenic cruise in 10 days and we have a few questions. What kind of outlets will there be? Do I need to bring US to Europe converters? Are there any USB charging outlets in the cabins? We are supposed to be on the Scenic Jade (🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻that the engines get repaired in time) if that makes a difference. We haven’t yet received our documents. Is that normal? Our TA thinks they are running late because of the website issues that they had to deal with. We leave the US in 6 days, so I hope we get our documents soon! We were told by Scenic that we could get a free transfer from our hotel in Budapest, and to our hotel in Amsterdam, even if we didn’t book the hotels through Scenic, as long as it is one of Scenic’s partner hotels, but they didn’t tell my husband which hotels are partner hotels. Does anyone know what the partner hotels would be? We are trying to figure out what time we can board in Budapest. Does anyone know? I’m guessing a lot of this info will be in the documents, but since we don’t have any yet… 🤷🏼‍♀️ Thanks for any help you can give us… Patti