EllieinNJ

Now that you mention it I think I'm primary on my card. The last two digits are different on our cards but we get one bill. We do have other Amex cards but the Princess discount only shows up on our blue card.

So did anyone actually get $350 off their cruise using both your own and spouse's offer?

I always ask my TA to send me cashback instead of OBC. This way I will use the cruise line's OBC and then pay the balance. Nice to get a check a week after the cruise. I found out on other cruise lines that TA OBC once on board is not always refundable. Talking about Carnival and MSC.

Always a good review. 82 more days until our Journey cruise on her

In 2022 she got rave reviews here on the roll calls so I booked two excursions with her for my May European cruise. They were okay. She even credited me back $4 that I accidently overpaid on my credit card. I'm so sorry to hear about this. Hope she finally does the right thing and pays you all back

So I presume they only give you one $175 credit even if you both have the offer?

Hope you are having a great trip.

I agree. NCL used to be our preferred cruise line but our last few cruises with them have been a disappointment. I still have one cruise next left and also $200 in FCC from problems on a cruise plus now there is $200 off $1000 in American Express so I might just book one more cruise with them. We will be going on our 5th Princess cruise next November on the Enchanted. It is a repro from NY to Ft. Lauderdale. We did this same exact itinerary in 2022 and liked it so much we are doing it again. Meanwhile, we are spreading our money out between Royal, MSC and Carnival but Princess seems to be our favorite now. The food is very good, they have shows every night (not game shows) and the ambience seems a little more refined.

We just got off the MSC Miraviglia. We missed two ports out of five because of the weather. I didn't hate it but there were many things I didn't like about it. Looking forward to the Venezia. We also have the Panorama booked in April and are concerned with the present trouble and cancellations. Keeping a close eye on it.

I believe the gray ones have a solid metal balcony railing while the white ones are clear and you can see through them.

Thank you for this. Please come back and let us know if the $175 was deducted on you cc statement and went through.

I thought it was a joke until I read a good review here in the St. Maarten forum

I cannot see where it says for new bookings only. Can someone point this out for me?

In one of your pictures in St. Maarten I noticed Big Bastards in the background. We are reserving beach chairs there in February . Does the water taxi leave you off close to this place?

On our 21 day B2B cruise on the Pride in May, after 10 days we asked our wonderful steward to stop making the towels. They were great but just took up too much space. He seemed grateful.

We were going to rent golf carts in Catalina Island but after we rented golf carts in Costa Maya two weeks ago, my husband's back was hurting him greatly. Is there anything else to do or see there? The Carnival Radiance excursions do not look interesting.

Twice we got there around 8:25 and we had no trouble being seated. We just told our servers we were going to the early show the day before and they said it was no problem.

Hi Henry. Looking forward to your report. We wanted to take the Dec. 1st Prima cruise but my part time job keeps getting in the way. Hopefully I am retiring in January. So now I am looking at the Prima for next December.

I am the one who usually gets the Amex offers on my Blue card. This time my husband got the NCL one and I got a Holland America one. Never sailed HA . Their prices are more than the $300 off $1000 than other cruise lines so will probably skip it even though I downloaded it

We got to the port around 11:30. Took us about 45 minutes to board the ship I did see a handicap line though.

Does the discount get bigger depending on the days of the cruise? My 5 day Liberty in Sept. Says $19 99pd and my 7 day Odyssey in Feb 2025 has nothing listed yet.

I think you misunderstood me. I like to sit at the desk when I get ready to go out instead of standing in the bathroom. On MSC there was only one center drawer so I brought a shoe bag to hang up with my incidentals and a lighted makeup mirror to do my hair and makeup. I would have really hated reaching up or down for those shelves in the bathroom. It was okay for my husband though.

It's just that I use a vanity at home with everything in my reach. I don't like standing in the bathroom doing my hair and makeup. It was fine for my husband.

And there was no pork, pickles or mustard on mine.

I also read your other topic here on bed placement. I too struggled to find a cabin with the bed by the balcony.. I find it feels more roomy that way. I looked at cruisedeckplans.com and couldn't find the EXACT cabin I wanted so booked one that did show the bed by the balcony. It was only about 6 or 7 doors down from the one I wanted. When I was on the Oasis in October, 2021 I booked the Anthem on board for Jan. 2022. The agent assured me that the bed was by the balcony. When we got on the Anthem we found out it was NOT. Thankfully the cabin next to us was empty and had the bed by the balcony and we were able to move into it.