highloyo

Queen for many reasons. The space is the same. I have a queen size at home. 

Thank you for your very informative review and comparison to Princess. It definitely makes me want to check it out. As someone mentioned, not sailing from the west coast is an added cost but the new experience may be worth it.

I’m on the Discovery in April and will be interested in your Live! Thank you.

Good luck, buddy. Thanks for taking us along on your adventure. 

@KarmaCruisers I’m following along your cruise and enjoying it. Do you find the cruise ship slots a lot tighter than say Vegas or Tahoe? I can never get on a roll in the cruise ship’s casino.

Following along. Will be on the Discovery (3rd time) in April.

Taking an Uber or Lyft from a hotel to San Pedro is fine. However taking a rideshare from LAX to the cruise port is a different story. You will to shuttle to the rideshare lot to get an Uber or Lyft which is very confusing at LAX. 

3 hours ago, 57eric said:

Is Anytime Dining gone?  If not, can someone point me to a mention of it on the Princess website?  All I can see, on the website as well as the app, is that you can reserve where and when you want.  All three MDRs are open for reservations for my upcoming voyage, but only up to 6:20 and after 7:40.

This is anytime dining vs. traditional dining where you were either a early or late seating. You can reserve a different dining time for each day or the same time. Or you can walk in anytime and ask for a table, although like regular restaurant, you might have to wait without a reservation.

1 hour ago, Yehootu said:

I go back to when we were really an Ohana, the Mr Magoon days.Dunkerly was the one who started bringing in mainland people ih upper management and bypassing local people that had been with the company for many years. Dunkerly did transition the airline to the Airbus fleet and was rewarded with a Director position at Airbus. The present CEO Peter Ingram put his house up for sale 3 weeks ago, wonder where he'll land.

I agree with you but my concern way back then was HA was always under threats of Ch 11 every few years. True, MD brought in a new management but part of that was needed to turn the company around. MD knew he had to win the confidence of locals and did much to blend into the community and culture. Shareholder value and profitability had never been higher under MD. Employees, including my now retired wife, were saddened when it was announced he was leaving. 

Although the pandemic hurt all the airlines HA has been in trouble once Mark Dunkerly was removed around 2017 or so. It’s been poorly run since. New management not familiar with “local culture” and over expansion has led to the situation they are in. I hope this doesn’t get approved.

Booked 2 BW Deck 8 obstructed balconies on the Oct 21 Calif Coastal cruise about 4 months ahead in June. To my surprise when printing luggage tags a few days before I noticed the cabins had changed to Deck 10 and Deck 12 BB balconies. The different decks weren’t a problem for us even though the original cabins were separated by 3 cabins on the same deck. We weren’t notified of the upgrade at all.  

8 hours ago, c130 said:

Related or not to ‘new Princess app’ ???   Just got off Coral Princess in Sydney (Nov 22). The screen outside our cabin door changed overnight to a new design. Didn’t pay too much attention since we were busy disembarking. Looked like same info, just different fonts & more asthetically  pleasing.

Did it change to show only your first name and the initial of your last name?

Nice to know. I realized it was a problem as I glanced at everyone’s name then thought my name was out there too. 

On the Discovery there were 2 NFL channels on your TV.

On a recent 7 day cruise aboard the Discovery, up and down the California coast I didn’t buy the internet package since it was only 2 sea days and I would have internet in SF, SD and Ensenada. I was under the impression that iMessage would work on MedallionNet without internet. I thought I experienced this before but unsure if it was on the 5 PCL and RCCL cruises I’ve taken in the last 2.5 years. I inquired at the IT desk and was told it’s not possible without internet. The tall, RUDE internet lady could only offer to sign me up for internet, that’s it, ie. to stop wasting her time. It wasn’t that critical to me but curious if you actually need full internet to iMessage. What I’ve read on this forum seems mixed. 
BTW, the chat feature on MedallionNet is worthless without a notification feature.

Off from the Discovery a week ago. Our reservations for 4 were always between 6:40 and 7:20. We never had a wait. I think the ship sailed at 90% capacity. No problems at all with the service either.

2 hours ago, accio_7 said:

Looking forward to having DuVaul as our CD next weekend onboard Discovery, heard good things about him. 
 

Big thanks to snoozecrooze for maintaining this list! 

We had DuVaul last year on the Discovery. He was very entertaining especially with his morning briefings on TV. 

1 hour ago, cr8tiv1 said:

fare ($60 x 10 days plus insurance) since I got sucked into that one.

Hi Renee. What is the insurance? Isn’t it just $60 per day for the Plus package?

Just returned from Maui Tuesday. Our daughter has a displaced family of 4 living with them. They lost everything. We brought 3 boxes of clothes, toys and other necessities gathered by our daughters. They will soon move to semi-permanent/temporary housing. It’s hard for their 3 and 5 year old to understand what happened. 

Where did Natalie C. go? I liked her when we sailed on the Majestic last year.

20 minutes ago, BelMare92264 said:

Staying on Princess Plus topic but segueing slightly. We signed for Plus as a convenience as 2nd time cruisers because Plus includes various kinds of drinks, alcohol and non alcohol, as well as bottled water.

 

I see in the other drinks packages that one option is a 12-pack of bottled water delivered to your cabin. I’m assuming Plus does not include the option of getting the 12-pack. Where on the ship (Discovery Princess) would we get individual bottles of water? 
 

Thank you. Looking forward to our Mexican Riviera cruise in January..

Just about any bar will have bottled water.

4 hours ago, ceilidh1 said:

Themed Cruises 2023_0817.pdf 146.02 kB · 15 downloads

Thanks @ceilidh1 . I’m on the Discovery 10/21 cruise and very excited about the Hollywood Insiders musician theme. 

16 hours ago, wallyj said:

Hi @highloyo, Princess has cracked down on combinability of the Shareholders benefit with interline fares. 
 

I have an acquaintance who has booked a Princess cruise at interline fare, previously(last year) and said he ‘used’ to get the shareholders OBC. 
 

It was sometime last year(summer?), Princess started enforcing the non combinability of interline fares and shareholders. Almost certain with interline you also cannot get the OBC for using a FCD. I believe the terms and conditions on the form state about certain fares not being eligible. So really, you were never supposed to get.

 

So now it requires my friend to do a little more math to see if a discounted or TA fare is better than booking interline, as he would have to give up shareholders and OBC from FCD usage.

 

My 2 cents, do the math, booking interline will not always result in the best/lowest net fare. My friend who can book interline, just joined me on a 14 day Alaska as solo on the Sapphire Princess. Princess had a reduced solo supplement, TA was offering bonus OBC along with a group OBC, able to add shareholders of $250 for a 14 day sailing, and OBC for using a FCD. Net difference between interline was a few hundred dollars. I am not planning on selling my stock.

 

Also @RRFan, as of April 2023, FCD’s purchased are only good for 12 months, but you are able to extend if you call before it expires.

I guess I’ll have to do the math. I got the Shareholders’ Benefit on my last cruise with Princess Apr ‘22 also booked with an interline discount. Thanks for your input. 

1 hour ago, BamaVol said:

Can you explain what an interline discount is.  

Airline employee discount.

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