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On 2/1/2024 at 3:01 PM, Nina On The Sea said:

Such great pictures and information, we are thinking of this itinerary and ship for next year. I hope you enjoyed the ship. Thank you!

We did the same itinerary at Christmas and ran a thread here

9 minutes ago, lx200gps said:

Are they still available upon request on the ship? I would think that once in your cabin, if you ask Stewart nicely, he/she should be able to supply one?

Not anymore

12 minutes ago, MissP22 said:

It's the same way thought-out the fleet. Casual on every night no matter where you dine. 

Casual I wouldnt mind most of the time, but shorts, t-shirt and baseball cap at the table during a formal night ?

2 hours ago, Skye1999 said:

Just off the Emerald Princess on the Panama Trip ending in Fort Lauderdale on Monday.

What's happened to the MDR dress policy of no shorts.

On this cruise there was more men wearing shorts and tee shirts than trousers and shirts also noticed guys wearing what looked liked swim wear, flip flops baseball caps and my wife also intimated that some of the women's dress sense was just as bad.

As for formal night I would say about 25% dressed for the evening but shorts were still in abundance in 

the MDR.

 

 

Same thing on the cruise before yours Ford Lauderdale to LA, I am not sure if it is fleet wide but the Emerald Maitre D's are not holding any sort of standards in the MDRs.

37 minutes ago, fpsphil said:

Slow transit today about 6 knots. Clario locks around 3:15

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About the same speed as us 30 days ago, the Captain is in no hurry, you should be out the other side by about 6 PM then drop anchor for the night before Puerto Amadore tomorrow.

Anyone else miss the blue cloth tote bags they used to give out?  We still have a few and always bring them onboard with us to tote things around in.  We always get asked where we got them.  You can’t get them anymore that I can see, it would be nice if they at least had them available to buy.

6 minutes ago, Josie201 said:

I have never seen the indication that non alcoholic drinks are excluded.  Would be nice if true as we drink lots of bottled water in a day.  

On our cruise a couple of weeks ago we were ordering up to 4 bottles of water each per day and we payed nothing for them. We had the plan.

59 minutes ago, Lady Arwen said:

Alcoholic drinks max 15 per day with unlimited specialty coffees, teas, water and sodas. 

46 minutes ago, Lady Arwen said:

As @voljeep mentioned earlier “ at Princess’s discretion” for additional alcoholic beverages.  

Does the Discretion mean if you are still standing after 15 drinks ? 🙂 

On 1/20/2024 at 9:45 AM, broberts said:

 

Sadly, to some mask wearing is a political statement rather than the health choice it really is. 

 

Sadly also the people who should have been wearing masks, notalbly those who were evidently sick, were not.

They do have sommeliers in MDR, however I also noticed that our regular was also working in the IC, the kitchen and up at the coffee shop by cones on emerald during the day.

On 12/13/2023 at 1:44 PM, turnin50 said:

I've just spotted The Riverside online, have stayed at the Hilton Marina a couple times in the past but I like what the Riverside looks like (at least on their website) and the price is reasonable for Oct 2024. Is it close enough to airport and cruiseport to make it worthwhile?

The Hilton Marina is a nice hotel, but higher prices, breakfast is not included, the buffet comes to $70.00 for two people with gratuity added.

We just got off emerald which has pizza slices at no extra charge up by the pools, am I understanding that is not an option on the Royal class ships?

They had equal, Splenda and sweet n low on emerald, we just got off

4 minutes ago, Nukesailor said:

 

You laugh (and it is funny), but on a past cruise I have seen crew wearing hazmat suits enter a cabin just down the hall from us.  Noro.  An eye-opener.

I remember having issues once after eating bad food, when I went to the ships med center I asked if it might be noro.  She asked me if I made it to the toilet, when I said yes, she said no it’s not noro 😳

17 hours ago, Nukesailor said:

One thing I forgot to mention was that included in the COVID debarking (sounds like something a dog does) information was the interesting item that, if a passenger had reserved a transfer to the airport through Princess, it would be canceled and alternate arrangements must be made by the passenger. Compensation would require submitting a claim with the travel insurance. 

 

Yes, we wore masks during this. Escorts had bottles of sanitizer to spray anything we touched.

Wonder what kind of cleaning our cabin got. 

 

 

One thing I did not mention, it is entirely up to you but I would suggest being up to date on your Covid and Flu shots, RSV shot if you can get it.  There were more than a few people coughing on the ship and a few people were confined to cabin while they got rid of it.  No major infection protocols onboard but you don’t want your vacation ruined by being stuck in your cabin.  We definitely caught something (not  Covid) as we both had stuffed sinuses after getting home.

8 minutes ago, TheMichael said:

 

Thanks. It might just be the larger Princess ships that have an espresso station in the buffet. 

Coffee and Cones is on the same deck not to far from the entrance to the buffet.

Never saw this on Emerald, we just finished a 15 day cruise

5 hours ago, TheMichael said:

 

Thank you for the honest review! We'll be on the Emerald in April, and it's good to know that in general it's all in working order. The only thing missing is a review of the "house band" - as someone who spent most of my weekend nights at nightclubs or arenas for music, I find I'm generally disappointed in most cruise bands, but always optimistic in finding a gem at some point and sometimes content to "enjoy" the rough edges.

 

 

Did they have espresso in the buffet as well? If not, that will change some of my caffeination strategy.

 

 

So the bartender insults you while you drink? (I'm sorry, I can't let a bad autocorrect go by. 😁)

I can’t remember seeing an espresso machine in the buffet,  you could always order it on the app for delivery but it would be  quicker to  grab one on the way in.

11 minutes ago, friend of Eeyore said:

I tried to find the evening menu in the app (old app), and failed miserably. It could have been me, though, and I didn't try the new app.

Stateroom tv, not the app

Just now, Rick&Jeannie said:

Good to know!  I was simply responding to the other poster who said there was not.  Not having been on the Emerald I was unable to add personal experience.  Thanks for clarifying!

Mind you I only know that our cabin (balcony) had one, I can’t speak for all cabins

1 hour ago, Rick&Jeannie said:

Apparently the Emerald has a different layout for power. I have never sailed on the Emerald so I have no first hand knowledge of that. All of the later ships I've sailed on *did* have outlets behind the bed. 

We just got off emerald and there is the one European plug behind the bed

On 12/24/2023 at 8:15 AM, coldweather said:

 

Thank you for sharing your cruise adventures. Are all of the menus paper based or are they also in the app or a QR code on the table.  Thanks. 

Reaching back to this one, the menus at the table are paper based.  However I found later in the cruise that I could pull up the days menus on the stateroom TV if I wanted to see what was served for supper that night.

There is a european style plug behind the bed that has a lamp plugged into it.  I have a european power bar that I use when travelling over there and it works great to have the lamp and another device connected if your spouse wants a charger on their side of the bed.most chargers these days are multi voltage, you just need the right adapter.

Forgot to mention dress code in MDR. For our cruise and in the Davinci dining room there didnt seem to be any enforced dress code.  Formal nights they were letting in people with T shirts, baseball caps and jeans.