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Well, this is starting to read like a whodunit. Some pretty good sleuthing too! I suppose one could just ask the TA why the early morning emails.

Now I'm even more confused. My question was why deal with the cruise line when you have a travel agent.

I'm not sure I follow what this means? If it means what I think, it doesn't seem like talking directly to the horse is working too well for you.

Yes, but the OP has a TA.

Purely out of curiosity, why spend time on the phone with Princess instead of letting the TA deal with the issue?

True, but that isn't setting the bar very high.

Edit -- Deleted. Misunderstood the comment.

FYI -- Your link is to an Amazon sign-in page. No worries - just FYI.

Could be his work from home staff are impacted from Hurricane and he is trying to keep things together. Pure guesswork. Could be anything.

Yes. I, and I think others, took that to mean things I like to do or would like to do. Things like maybe staying in a suite. For me another might be steering the ship. I'm not holding my breath on that one.

Come on folks. No need to get all steamed up about this. (I laugh at my own jokes)

We are very similar. We eat food common to whatever country we are visiting but at some point will migrate to something familiar. Might be fast food or a familiar chain.

I'm more concerned about the impact to hurricane victims.

I use one large packing cube called a luggage! 😃

I have come under increasingly intense pressure to pack. Intensified significantly by simply muttering "the day before". Board flight in 5 days. Board ship in 6 days

Deciphering the code to the video was easier than I expected! 😃 That is very discouraging. There is no way I'm going to a show that requires I arrive 3.5 hours ahead of time. Though, I might show up to watch the fisticuffs! 😃😃

OK, so you had to wait longer than you would have liked. I understand that.

Well, this comment is a little different than the previous one where you had were "never given the opportunity" and had to "beg and plead". Twice apparently. We have many cruises on Princess and members of our group always order wine with dinner. Your original comment is definitely not representative and misleading as heck to claim it is the norm. Especially to someone trying to learn about the cruise line.

This is not unique to Sun Princess. I doubt there a single Princess ship with a theater that will sit even half the passengers. Mega ships of every cruise line have theaters that will seat an even lower percent of the total headcount.

I assume this is based on a bad experience or maybe just don't like Princess. Either way, this is inaccurate and will be misleading to those who don't know better.

Sun Princess - Why such negative reviews? I just read another thread about Sun Princess receiving a Condé Nast Readers Choice Award for best mega ship. I think there are a number of reasons. Some of them might include the following. It is a new ship that is still ironing out the wrinkles. A lot of folks don't like change and this new design strays from the Princess template. People are more prone to complain on forums than otherwise. Negative people need to be negative.

"The Greatest Foodie Destination at Sea" Some are going to be upset about this. Anyway, sour grapes aside, some folks apparently enjoyed their time on the Sun Princess.

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I really enjoy listening to live music in the various lounges. I also do a lot of reading.

One big thing that it means, is the amount of standing in line should be greatly reduced. Enjoy!