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One of the most exposed balconies on the ship. Wear PJs and no hanky panky!

I don't know who at Princess told you that there was a ten card limit but my personal experience is quite different. I've recently sent my TA almost twenty nine GCs for an upcoming booking. They were applied without any issues.

I see no reason why that could not be done. After all it's OK to make multiple partial payments by credit card toward a cruise as long as you're all paid up before the final payment date. Just because it's possible though, it may not be the most efficient way to make payment. You have to package up the gift card numbers and PINs in some secure manner and get the info to your TA each time you do this. Then your TA has to allocate time to unpack the information and then start entering numbers, hopefully a copy-and-paste operation. Anyway, I'm not a TA but if I were, my personal preference would be to do it all at once rather than piecemeal multiple times.

Looks like they could control a mid-size commercial airport from there.

Having seen some aft photos of the Sun Princess taken at night, it's lit up with bright blue lights. This reminded me of a Marina deck cabin we once had on the Royal Princess that was externally illuminated with purple lights at night. I really didn't like it and am curious to hear how it is in the aft-facing cabins.

Great idea! Our Arizona presidential preference vote is this coming Tuesday ...

Lower floors for these cabins might smell smoke from the aft smoking area. Maybe not so much while the ship is in motion but certainly there's a good chance when the ship is docked or moored.

We're going to be one deck below this cabin in June. I've looked extensively at aft photos of the Sun Princess and it sure looks like they're going to be great wake view balconies, the only ones on the ship BTW. Still waiting for someone to post photos from these balconies though. That would confirm it.

@cr8tiv1 is spot on. You can go ahead an keep checking for a guarantee assignment (I would) but try not to worry. I've never seen a report of someone with a guarantee not getting a cabin. Our own personal experience with guarantees though was getting assigned within a week of booking but that was back in 2012. With the Sun Princess, the fact that I still can't make dinner reservations for our June 1 cruise tells me that the folks responsible for this new ship are way too busy putting out small "fires" and will probably get to things like guarantee assignments at the last minute. For now, I'd check my personalizer every couple of days and in mid-April I'd start checking every day until I had an assignment.

Not even sure they have that as pop-ups ... we were on her in 2023.

Virtual Running Shorts sounds a bit scary to me. 😱

Could it be the new home for the PES (Platinum, Elite and Suites) "happy hour" that exists on all the other Princess ships? Operationally they'd simply post crew members at the entrance(s) and add a temporary sign announcing the event for PES guests only. Given the PES hours on the Sun Princess (at least for current cruises) are something like 4:00 to 5:30, that might already be a low attendance time for Crooners anyway.

That is an incomplete statement and requires more detail to be accurate. You can use the ship's WiFi Intranet for all sorts of free local access on the ship. The Medallion App for instance uses the free WiFi to order room service, order a drink, see the daily schedule, locate companions, use Crew Chat and so on. To access the Internet via the ship's WiFi, you must pay. What I was originally saying is that there have been instances of WhatsApp and iPhone iMessages working when only connected to the ship's free Intranet as there has been a "port" or "portal" in the Intranet allowing these messages onto the Internet. This has been true in the past and may still work now but haven't tested it lately.

Lights off?

Sorry, I meant to and say should have said "ship's WiFi" instead of "local WiFi".

Considering there's a YouTube Live video going on right now with the person using their mobile phone to create it, I don't think it's an issue indoors.

Come on, this is a software function and we all know how well Princess IT works.

The last time we were in that class (was Club Class then) was on the Island Princess. On that ship, the "Reserve/Club Class Dining" was a separate section of one of the MDRs. The special section was definitely open for lunch on embarkation day. When we approached the dining room entry, there must have been a notification on someone's screen triggered by our medallions. The staff hurried to greet us and escort us to our special section. We had been upgraded to a suite (first time in a suite) and didn't expect that treatment. What a pleasant surprise. I suspect this is the case where there aren't separate restaurants but separate sections. I do not know about the new Sun Princess which does have a separate Reserve restaurant.

We also accumulate plenty of FF points too so we have to balance EZAir, direct airline purchases and then the FF deals. The FF deals aren't always that great either, too many points required, terrible flight choices and so on. For our upcoming RT through Barcelona we ended up going with a mixed AA/BA deal that was a mixture of points and money. It beat EZAir and wasn't that many points but the connections weren't as good. Money saved won out on that one.

In the past WhatsApp has been known to work without the ship's Internet being enabled. Just the local WiFi was enough. The iPhone iMessage facility would work as well. Something about a "port" or similar being open to these apps. Can't say that it works today though.

Started this week in Arizona. Many of the kids are gone to Mexico. Yes, this is irrelevant too!

Yes, before StockPerks.

Well ... I have evidence that they already do. My March 2025 booking on the Regal Princess and my September 2025 B2B bookings on the Emerald Princess have had shareholder OBC posted on the accounts since 2023. I haven't yet tried to apply for our March 2026 booking on the Island Princess.

Are you referring to general for-hire taxis as opposed to those reserved in advance? If not, I wonder who all those people are who are holding signs with passenger's names at the exit from the cruise terminal?

I "ponied up" a few years ago at an Effy shop for an anniversary gift for DW. Used a CC at the shop to avoid her seeing it in advance on the folio. Didn't really work as what the Effy folk really did was put the charge on my folio and then used the CC to pay off the folio. So much for a surprise gift ...