sfpd3000

13 minutes ago, ldubs said:

 

I think you made a very good call.   👍

I concur

21 minutes ago, Jeter02 said:

Carry on luggage only, and I have TSA PreCheck 😉

Barring any unforeseen circumstances (traffic accident on freeway, ship's late arrival), you should be ok.  You will probably arrive at SFO around 8am.

1 hour ago, Jeter02 said:

Is a 10:45am flight out of SFO on a Saturday morning doable from a cruise from the San Francisco cruise terminal? Not sure how San Fran traffic is. 

It's doable but you're cutting it awfully close.  Assuming you're one of the first ones off the ship at around 7:15-7:30am, the taxis will be waiting.  Additional wait time for uber/lyft.  No traffic on Saturdays that early in the morning.  Will you be checking in any luggage at the airport?  Sometimes there will be a line for that.  Then there will be a line to go through security too.

On 5/27/2024 at 6:01 PM, RonaldL said:

Traffic is brutal all day.  A long and slow line to get onto the pier and unless you are actually helping people get luggage in the car the police will make you move.  You will then have to leave the area and get in line again.

Security guards control the curb area by the terminal.  The police only facilitate traffic in and out of the pier from the Embarcadero.

On 5/27/2024 at 5:39 PM, RonaldL said:

Where at SFO does Uber pickup?  I have read  you need to be on the upper level, which is where the departure gates are located.  Will they not pick up at the arrival level which is downstairs?

Assuming you are arriving at the three domestic terminals, the answers above are correct.  If you are arriving in the International terminal (we have some domestic flights that do this), proceed outside to the curb of the departure level and your Uber will pick you up at the center island.

8 hours ago, grak said:

……can you get off and explore area and reboard before sailing? Specifically in San Francisco…we’re usually on board by noon and would like to get off for a couple of hours. Is that something that can be done?

I've seen it done before.  A gentleman had to run back home because his wife forgot her medication.

1 hour ago, Cruise Raider said:

I loved having the Royal here in SF and took advantage of that as often as possible.  Although we’ve loved our cruises on the Ruby and Crown, mostly due to the crew, I would still love to see. Royal class ship home-ported again in SF in the future … any one of them would be fine with me.  

I agree.  We jumped on the Royal four times in six months last year.  I "suggest" home-porting the Royal here on every post cruise survey (a lot of good that does).

22 hours ago, pompeii said:

Yikes, I will definitely double check it all tomorrow.
 

Had you received a booking confirmation?  

Yes, we received a booking confirmation.  The only reason we booked with the 1-800 number was because the promotion that we wanted to take advantage of was ending on a Sunday, and our travel agent wouldn't be at work until Monday.

18 minutes ago, pompeii said:

OK, well I took the plunge and got an agent named Anne who seemed to be pretty knowledgeable.  There was an absence of loud noise in the background so I don't think she was in a call center.  Anyway, she took care of it and I see it on my personalizer and have also received a new confirmation that looks correct.  So I think I lucked out!  She didn't, however, bypass the opportunity to try and sell me the plus package, lol. 

 

Thanks, everyone, for your feedback, suggestions, and best wishes😉.  I think I'll go buy a lottery ticket.

Double check tomorrow to make sure you still have the booking.  We booked through the 1-800 number and the next day came to find out the booking had been cancelled.  Only found out because we happened to look on the princess website and saw that the cabin we had booked was now available.  We had no warning.... no email, no nothing.  I realize yours was a simple cabin change, but still...

18 hours ago, Walkthedesert said:

I was on this cruise.  Combination of weather, a rare tide called a King Tide, and the fact that the regular pier is undergoing some maintenance.   The captain felt that we could get into Skagway okay, but maynot be able to get back out.  The next day was our Glacier Bay day and he didn't want to risk missing GB. We were all in agreement.   Come to find out a Royal ship did go into Skagway and was not able to make it out until the next day.

Thanks for the info.  I trust Capt Lye to make the right decisions.  One of the better captains, and always visible around the ship.

The porters are generally there waiting for you.  If I recall, there was only one time when I did not see any porters due to a scheduling mixup.  In that event, passengers had to roll there luggage to the x-ray room and then walk back to the line to get into the terminal.

When we were on the Crown in February, I saw about 6 mahjong sets.  When we were on the Crown again in April, there were NONE!  I checked throughout the cruise as well as disembarkation day (we were delayed so I had time to kill) when everything should have been returned.

28 minutes ago, 555 said:

yes

Thanks

Does the minibar get restocked if you do a B2B?

23 hours ago, Knickearth said:

Having recently gotten off the emerald I learned to appreciate the medallion app.  Every afternoon we went onto the app and checked the dinner menu in the MDR for that day.

Old app used to post the dinner menu for the ENTIRE cruise so it made it easier to plan for specialty dining reservations.  This new app only posts the menu for that particular day.  We had to ask the dining room manager for the week's menu.  It was printed on a piece of paper in a tiny font size that you needed a magnifying glass to read.

I agree with @happy42cruise.   I’ll just add one other option:  if you book a hotel near the airport, you can go back to the airport the day of your cruise and use the Princess EZ Air airport transfer.   The hotels closer to the airport will probably be cheaper than ones in the City.

or

If you book a hotel in the City, park at 80 Francisco instead of parking at the hotel.   Then taxi, Uber, or bus back and forth.

We had a similar experience a few months ago.  The Princess promotion was ending on a Sunday that we wanted to take advantage of and since our travel agent doesn't work weekends, we had to call and book with Princess directly.  Got everything booked with no issues.  We just happened to check the website the day after, and saw that our cabin that we had already was AVAILABLE.  Called Princess again, and found out that our reservation had been cancelled.  No email, no notification, no nothing.  If we hadn't gone onto the website and looked, we would have assumed our booking was still good.

11 minutes ago, cr8tiv1 said:

 

When I posted @...I was hoping that Alan would chime in TO THIS THREAD.  Which he did. @sfpd3000 thanks for monitoring the boards.

Luckily you posted @..., which shows up in my email

2 minutes ago, RSF Cruiser said:

Maybe you’ll be there in October, then. 

We'll see.  As @telecheck wrote, I usually post on the particular roll call thread that I work.  But we don't get the work requests until a month or two out, depending on when the sergeant posts them.  He posted this morning for the June and July cruises.  Or if he gets mad at me (twice already), I get dropped out of the rotation...

4 minutes ago, RSF Cruiser said:

Ha! Had I known I’d have waved to you!

If you had waited one more week... I'm working the Discovery tomorrow.

4 minutes ago, RSF Cruiser said:

 

We just did this cruise last week and will be doing it again in October. Perhaps when the schedule first came out, the itinerary included Santa Barbara, and then it got changed to Monterey, and then Catalina. I got suspicious about Catalina for October when no excursions were listed. The Catalina port schedule still has the Discovery listed, but my bet is the schedule hasn’t been updated, especially if the SF port schedule just got changed last week. Thanks for confirming my suspicions!

We probably sailed past each other twice.  I was on the Crown last week on the way south while you were on the Discovery going up north and then vice versa.

Doing a little more research here.

My cousin did this cruise last year (doing the itinerary from Post #19).  But they only spent the day in San Francisco.  So I'm guessing since you're staying overnight in San Francisco, you'll miss Catalina and Santa Barbara too?

If you look at the Princess page for your particular cruise, the map illustration shows you departing Los Angeles, going to San Francisco, and then Santa Barbara, San Diego, and Ensenada before returning home.

I'm here.

I believe the question is: Will Discovery stay overnight in San Francisco?  We now have Discovery scheduled to arrive on Monday (10/21) and staying overnight before departing on Tuesday (10/22).  The port schedule was just updated last week.  The original schedule had Discovery here in San Francisco for only one day (Monday 10/21).  So my guess is Princess already knew about this particular sailing skipping Catalina and had informed the Port of SF.

Just now, sfpd3000 said:

Just got off the Crown Princess.  I heard it’s a mess at Pier 80

Of course it’s a mess at Pier 27 too.