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You are a great friend of mine but I can’t see doing a long cruise with only doing dinner in specialty venues where the menu never changes. Again each to their own

Please see your post #95 where you state that one would have to be an alcoholic to be able to take advantage of the plus package on a day when you are off ship for most of the day. You may want to revisit that one

If you are in port and go off medallion net to a local WiFi you should be able to do it

Non alcoholic drinks have never counted for the 15. If that was the case I would run out by dinner

You mean the technology that can’t even get the count of drinks right or puts drinks on the correct account ?

Well for one laundry is already free for elite and suite passengers. Believe me there would still be people that want to specify exactly how many alcohol drinks the can have and probably some will want to pay for reserve dining to a avoid lines. I am afraid it is just not possible to satisfy everyone. If you create one package exchanging alcohol for non alcohol there will still be ones who want a package with 3 drinks no casual and 4 specialty dinners

If we went back to the past and paid for every drink ala carte and had limited WiFi minutes many of us would have a much higher bill. Packages are not for everyone. There is no way to make individual packages for each passenger.

I had thought the mini suites are a collection and the restaurant is a class. At least last month on the Crown that was the wordage

Mine is always 1day difference and I am in Oregon and sailing from Vancouver

Not on a package And 7 drinks won’t get me into dinner

And I am gobsmacked at the price of restaurants in London. Do people really ever eat out there ?

We had these on the Crown but in our suite they were on the desk not the bedside table. We just used our charging device for multiple devices

Then why does it have a Hotel General Manager

You get the green check mark whether you order the medallion or not. So if I choose not to have the medallion shipped and show up in the green line how do I get the medallion

As far as I am concerned a ship is just a floating hotel. If I stay for a week and have a long history with the hotel I guess I should insist on the same perks I get from Princess

I feel I am getting an even better bang for my buck then I did 30 years ago. I was referring to people who seem to think they should be able to make up their own packages and when they can’t they say that Princess doesn’t care about their customers I stay at particular hotel chains on a regular basis but none of them offer me free laundry and mini bar. Maybe I should call them out

If all you people hate the “New” Princess so much why do you still sail with the line ? It sounds like you are expecting a lousy cruise but still book them.

If you are getting a medallion shipped to you then green otherwise blue. Blue just means you are picking up the medallion

As a suite passenger who uses Reserve Class Dining I often see people trying to talk there way in there after being told they will have to wait at their normal dining room

As I mentioned before if you allowed each person to make their own package up you could have 3,000 different plans which would be near impossible to administer. You are calling people names based on their lifestyle. If I return to the ship at 3:00 I would probably have 2 glasses of wine at Vines, 2 pre dinner cocktails, 2 glasses of wine with dinner, an after drink drink, maybe 4-5 in the casino and then grab a double Sambucca at Crooners as I head for my suite.

Yeah if they are not used much then why is there a massive queue at 4:45 waiting for them to open

When drink packages first were introduced they were unlimited unlike other cruise lines and Princess said we trust our customers not to share. A year or so later the limit showed up. Nuff said

You are saying that is over $15 ?

You can share one plate. We have done this on several ships

We eat at Sabatini’s every cruise app, pasta and desert is my usual order