CruiserMickey

I love my bracelet, too! I have it in gold and have used it on two cruises already. I’m considering buying the silver so I can have a different look to wear with silver jewelry.

If your wife wants to wait in line for the airline checkin desk to open, more power to her. I’d rather have the day to explore the area before having to go to the airport. FLL is my least favourite airport and the less time I spend there the better. 🤷🏼‍♀️

We used the luggage valet for exactly the same reason. FLL is definitely an airport where that service is beneficial.

Glad to hear you are all safe! Hopefully this will be all the drama you face. Safe travels!

It is a good idea to see it in person, however the bracelet was $10 USD more onboard than it was ordering it before you sail. The necklace is on sale for $25 (formerly $35) probably because of complaints that it is difficult ugly to use. Just something to think about. Good luck with your decision!

I’ll put in another vote for the bangle bracelet. I much prefer it to a lanyard (reminds me of being at a conference, not on holiday) and it kept my medallion on me without having to have pockets or a purse along to hold it.

Have an amazing cruise! We board the Regal in March, do I will be following closely. Can you please post about the boarding process and how Princess handles the drinks before you get to international waters? Bon Voyage!

Casual dining cannot be prebooked. If your son-in-law made a reservation it would be in specialty dining which is not included in the Plus Package.

The Plus package does not include Specialty Dining.

Yes, I did check my credit card…which is why a receipt would be helpful. Princess charged in USD, but converted it to CAD *before* posting it to my account. With no receipt I couldn’t check if it was the correct amount charged or not. The person I talked to insisted that it was $78 CAD, but it was actually $78 USD.

My website personalizer would not allow me to book the reservation. It instructed me to book through the app. 🤷🏼‍♀️

Can anyone show me how to access my Travel Summary in the new app? Is that even possible? I am still using the old app until Princess tells me I can’t. There are still too many glitches and necessities missing or not working.

If you didn’t want the money coming out of pocket, then yes, you should wait to book. We had used up our OBC for excursions, and wanted to make sure we got a table for six at the time we wanted. I paid to get what I want…but there should be a record of that payment and there is not other than on my credit card bill.

This is a basic, necessary business practice. Otherwise how do you balance your books?

There is no record of my purchase of specialty dining in my Travel Summary. It should be there, but it isn’t.

I wish I had taken a screen shot. Lesson learned.

That’s part of the problem. I didn’t even get an email saying anything was purchased. My only confirmation is in my dining reservations and it shows no dollar amount at all. 🤷🏼‍♀️

I guess Princess thinks we’re stupid and don’t want to keep track of what we spend? If it is a conversion issue, you would think that there should be some way to track that, too. *sigh* I usually sail with Celebrity and have never had this issue. I have receipts for everything I have ordered, be it excursions, wifi, drink packages or specialty dining.

Today I booked the Crown Grill for a party of six. Two of our party have the Premium package and four do not. The amount that Princess charged me does not match what the booking screen said would be charged. After 90 minutes on the chat feature sending screen shots to prove my case, including what was charged on my MasterCard, the answer I got was - “we don’t give out receipts” (excuse me???) - “you can check what you were charged in your onboard folio” (in three months!?!) - “call your bank” Has anyone else run into this frustration? Any suggestion as to what I should do besides call my credit card company? I have no receipt to prove what the amount should be because Princess won’t give me one!

I’m glad it worked out for you! Crossing my fingers that all will be fine with our reservations.

Yes…and my husband who worked in IT for 20 years says he would have been fired if any of the myriad of issues Celebrity has weren’t solved pronto. It boggles the mind how screwed up Celebrity IT is.

Good to know. Being cruise line agnostic I will never make status anyways, so just thought we’d try.

I have emailed Celebrity with our booking numbers and our request. I’m hoping that there is a workaround that can make this happen before we get on the ship. I know we can combine them when we get onboard, but I’d rather not have to go to line up on day one. We are not in a suite, so we have no Retreat host to do this for us, but one member of our party is Elite, so we are hoping his status may have some influence to get our reservations made. We’re going to try, anyways.

Thanks...we will do that. I was just hoping that the glitch had been worked out so we could save some time on Day 1.

You can make MDR reservations in your Cruise Planner. Go to “Dining” and scroll to the bottom (past all the specialty dining) and you will see the link there.