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Coral and yes, USD

Yep, I have a May 2024 booking with Sabatini's at $35 and January 2025 booking with Sabatini's at $55 and Bayou Cafe and Steakhouse at $63.

No, no butlers on Princess. The closest to one is on Sky, Enchanted, Discovery and later ships where the highest level Sky Suite guests have a Suite Experience Manager to "service your every need".

Arrival times have not been required for a few months now - you get a broad boarding window and can turn up within that window.

I'm not sure it's working off-ship. Our muster defaulted to deck 6 too when we should also be in the Princess Theater on 7. I navigated to a different deck (9), went back to Explore the Ship, clicked Muster Station and it stayed on that deck. Clicked the Route button and it said connect to MedallionNet on board to build a route. I moved to deck 7 and scrolled to the forward deck, went back and did the same but no movement.

Loungers $20 for a half day/$40 for a full day, per person. If you purchase for a whole cruise then you can usually get them for $30 a day. Can be increased to $60 per day when booking for scenic days in Alaska, for example. Cabanas are available at $140 for a half day/$220 for a full day.

Yes, the Sanctuary location will depend on the ship:

They have all the loungers and cabanas mapped out for each day and manually write in your stateroom numbers when you select. Here was one of the days from Enchanted Princess when we went to book: And here is the special Sanctuary menu:

Be warned - the pushed Update process on Android has left me with two apps with the same name next to each other on my phone - the old and the new version! And typically I clicked the first one and launched the old version - so you need to do some housekeeping and uninstall - when you are ready of course. Might need to compare the old and the new for a while.

Yes, totally different App Android 1.0.0 and release dates:

Yes, just went to the old app and is prompted me to update (on android). I had done our final medallion ordering step yesterday but the new version also asked for some contact details (phone numbers) to confirm we were ready to board. No dining bookable yet for our Sun Princess inaugural. Haven't managed to work out how to find my other bookings on the new version.

Wow, and no big leap in prices (to account for Signature benefits) on new bookings in this new category on the Princess site as yet! They still haven't made it clear on the messaging though.

All the Casual Dining menus are here

I guess the ultimate aim is to encourage passengers to spend their money on their way to their respective dining rooms rather than it being quicker.🙂 And it does work against the ship within a ship concept

Thinking about the design a bit more, I really cannot understand why the Reserve Collection Restaurant is located next to the mid-aft elevators when all the Reserve Cabanas are located near the forward elevators and the Reserve Mini-Suites are mostly midships. And the Signature restaurant is located midships when most of the suites are located mid-aft and aft! In terms of numbers (if you exclude 3rd/4th+ passengers) then you will have just over 400 passengers allowed to eat at the Reserve Collection Restaurant while only 160 will be eating at the Signature restaurant. And they aren't that different in size.

Yes, this is referring to the Reserve Collection Cabanas (Category C1/C2) on deck 9 which will have access to the Cabana Deck AND Reserve Collection restaurant. Reserve Collection Mini-Suites (Category M1/M2) will also have access to the Reserve Collection Restaurant - circa another 120 staterooms.

Definitely, quite a revolutionary bridge design for Sphere class according to Adam Savage

Just spotted that Sun Princess is on a Barcelona port schedule site for these dates at the E-Helix terminal. i.e. not a sailing but docked for the media events https://www.barcelonacruiseterminal.com/

Looks like they are pulling some inventory on the inaugural at least - wondering if something else is going on....

Interesting price changes! I only see the words "Enjoy Signature upgrades and benefits", no mention of Sanctuary though?

Maybe before when dining finally opens up - if it's Signature amenities then existing guests might get access to the Signature restaurant and the complimentary speciality dining perk on embarkation night.

I just checked in with a friendly travel agent from the UK and this is all they are seeing: And the pricing is still the same as the old category. Including the sanctuary is a weird one - maybe it's still early days and this is just a building block in Princess' plan 😁

It's appeared on the deck plan version and was claimed to have been added - see my post #1118 . It does feel strange though - all the other Signature categories start with an S so why create a D0?

Yup, was hoping someone with travel agent access could verify - we only have the Princess website to go on and it doesn't seem to hang together!

On another site it's been pointed out that a new category of Premium Deluxe Balcony D0 has just been created which now falls under the Signature collection. These are the aft based ones only- the deck plan indicates they get Signature benefits but it doesn't mention this when you click to reserve a particular stateroom under special notes and the pricing hasn't yet changed. Can anyone confirm? This will be a nice surprise for anyone already booked!