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I am hoping that added a notification to the chat feature of the new App. With the old one you could send a message but no notification would be sent to the recipient. A soft beep would be a welcome addition.

Also this PDF lists venues by ship: https://www.princess.com/content/dam/princess/corporate/pdfs/restaurants-dining-venues-on-board.pdf.coredownload.inline.pdf

Has there been a Princess Cruise Secrets 2023 forum topic opened? There was a Secrets forum each year previous to now. I cannot seem to find the 2023 forum. Hopefully someone creates a 2024 Princess Secrets forum.

From what I am hearing there are passengers cancelling their cruises or declining to book on Princess because of these changes. There is some anger about the changes being made to cruises that were booked under previous conditions. Charging extra for previously included items after booking and selling these items as now included as a new “benefit” of the Plus and Premium packages does not go down well.

A photo of the additional inclusions in the Plus package and the terms and conditions for the package.

When asked about Tapas included with a wine purchase at Vines on our Alaska cruise (that just ended July 25 this year), I was told they were only available 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM. Since we had dinner booked for 5:40 PM each evening this did not work for us. These inclusions just seem to either be very limited or are now have an additional cost unless you purchase the Plus/Premium package.

You may have better luck with the online version of the Ocean Ready. The Android App is particularly unstable and difficult to use. My son had better luck with the online version. Below is the link to the Ocean Ready webpage. https://oceanready-personalinfo-ui.prod.ocean.com/

We cruised on the Enchanted Princess in January with a group of 10. Once I linked them as travel companions in the Medallion App I was able to book for the same table at the same time for all 10 of us. Maybe calling Princess and having them set it up would be a solution. I think I had to book each night separately as the “book for the same time every night” option seems to have some thyme of bug. I had chosen a private table for another booking choosing at the same time each evening, and when I checked in the App after booking it was booked as a shared table. I had to book each night separately to ensure a private table. The App is very glitchy, unreliable and difficult to use.

Some flavour of Crème Brûlée seems to be available each evening on the Enchanted Princess unlike on the Royal Princess last spring where it was not available at all.

Enchanted Princess has an espresso bar in the pastry shop in the lido. Shorter lines but no brewed coffee. Double Americano substitutes for this. All other specialty coffees are available.

We are booked for private dining for 2 in the Capri on the Enchanted. Do they have separate lines for checking into the dining room for reservations and a different line for walk up diners? We have heard mixed answers on this question. Mixing the lines into one line makes it very frustrating to those who have a reservation and have to stand in a line waiting until walk up diners are seated.

Maybe crème brûlée on the evening menu is ship specific. It was no longer available on the Royal on the cruise we just disembarked.

We just disembarked the Royal on Saturday, May 15, 2022 and puzzles were in the library every day. There were plenty of books and games on the shelves as well.

Not exactly a secret but the crème brûlée is no longer a Princess Favourite on every evening menu. A secret I take advantage of is the availability of a daily Sudoku and a second word puzzle every day in the Library.

I think you can add the grandchildren to your application. My husband and I were on the same ArriveCAN application with one QR code and one receipt for both of us. We did have to submit passport , vaccination and other information for each of us in the application. You may want to call the government help line to confirm this is correct.

We had to turn the Canadian Customs form in to the cruise line 4 days prior to our arrival in Victoria but did not have to turn the ArriveCAN receipt in to them. And we did not have to show it to anyone on our arrival in Victoria. Those arriving from outside Canada prior to boarding the cruise had to complete two ArriveCAN applications, one prior to their arrival in Canada and a second within 72 hours prior to boarding the cruise ship. You must cancel the Canadian arrival receipt before you can apply for the second receipt in order to board the cruise ship.. And, because you can only have one valid ArriveCAN receipt at a time, the one used to board the cruise ship must be completed after arrival into Canada in order to receive the valid receipt to board the cruise ship. This may have been what caused the delays in boarding and the confusion about needing a second ArriveCAN receipt.

We did not have to complete a replacement ArriveCAN application on our arrival into Victoria. I did however talk to another passenger on the cruise and she told me that, by the time they were boarding, Princess was no longer requiring passengers to complete the application prior to boarding. She told me that because the passenger lines to board were so long that the ship would not have been able to meet it's departure time if they had required the ArriveCAN application to be completed prior to embarkation. I think that was the reason guest services was demanding that everyone on the ship re-apply. They refused to even look at our receipt which is why we were so frustrated. We also had to complete and turn in a Canadian custome form 4 days prior to our arrival in Victoria. This meant that we were unable to make an6 purchases in Ketchikan. But we were able to just walk off the ship in Victoria and again in Vancouver on disembarkation. No security, immigration or customs checks when we arrived in Vancouver to disembark.

We are on an Alaskan cruise right now that departed Vancouver. We had to complete the ArriveCAN App within 72 hours before we boarded. We were not allowed to board until we proved we had completed the ArriveCAN App. We are mid cruise and are now being told by the cruise line that we are required by the Canadian Government to complete it again before we reach our first Canadian port of Victoria. I am convinced the cruise line is in error and we are going to use our current QR code to re-enter Canada. We will see what happens when we reach Victoria.