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You’re welcome…after accounting for 45 years of inflation today’s cruises are a bargain.

As I recall it’s a fail safe system…it requires power to go underwater & if power fails it safely returns to the surface.

It’s been over a decade but as I recall there was a floating dock to go from boat to sub.

Once we got a great kama’aina rate & took the submarine tour in Lahaina. It was interesting but having scuba dived many times in Maui the sub wasn’t as scenic for me. And once below about 40’ colors fade out without artificial lights. They take passengers by boat to the sub offshore to board it. Since I went they have submerged the old brig Carthaginian that was a fixture at the Lahaina Harbor in front of the Pioneer Inn. https://atlantisadventures.com/maui/

1977 Princess brochure on Pacific Princess & Sun Princess to Mexico. scan_rechaixinsurance_com_20120918_163034.pdf

Hi Judy & George…that would be great! It appears that some of us PCL fans are moving on from the new Princess cruises including Lew & Nan. Hope to hear about your first O cruise in December.

Thanks Lew for the well wishes as we move on from Princess and hopefully some day our paths will cross again on a ship or in Maui. Our desires didn’t change with Princess but in our opinion enough things diminished for us to seek a more upscale experience. One like we experienced during our 2nd cruise sailing on the Italian cruise line Sitmar in 1988…amazing food & service from the all Italian & Portuguese crew.

Glad we canceled our Caribbean Princess cruise before final payment…it’s just one of several reasons this Princess fan has canceled our future cruises & are exploring other cruise lines.

My accountant wife & I compared & double checked item to item…they reduced the amount of my refundable credit by 25%.

I took screenshots the evening before disembarkation & received an emailed folio the day after the cruise. The onboard folio amount was correct but the emailed copy was reduced by 25%. Three months after emailing their Director of Customer Relations finally received a call this week. They still claimed we received the correct refund which documents clearly show it was reduced by 25%. They agreed to send a check for the missing amount as a sign of goodwill…they still will not admit their mistake & waiting for a check which took 8 weeks to receive 75% of our refundable credit.

That’s not surprising to me…in my opinion reduced shoreside customer staffing is less of a problem than the overwhelming number of complaints they receive. I have empathy for their staff attempting to deal with the problems created by management including the unreliable MC app that predates the pandemic. Looking forward to reading about your Virgin experiences & we’relooking forward to our first Oceania cruise next year on Regatta. We finally canceled the same cruise you canceled in Fall…it’s time for us to explore other lines even if it’s fewer much more enjoyable days.

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We’ve been Princess loyalists for nearly 35 years & have canceled our future cruises and booked Oceania which friends who also sail on PCL rave about the O life. It’s on a previous Renaissance ship like the most recent Pacific Princess which we never had the opportunity to sail. Our disappointment in the Padgett management is the primary reason we’re leaving Princess. When considering what the O price includes it’s not much more than on PCL for our 2023 Regatta cruise.