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Most of the shops in the cruise port sell good vanilla. We noticed the shops seems to sell the identical bottles of vanilla, all at the same price. I don’t know if you can use your medallion to purchase.

We noticed this too, we phoned Princess and they booked our cruise over the phone, we are from the UK and there is an offer at the moment on Premium package for Plus price. It took two phone calls,the first agent said there were no packages left to purchase on our cruise! When I phoned back the next agent could book with the correct package.

We did star gazing many years ago on the Crown in the Southern Caribbean. The presenter had a light beam she shined into the sky and explained which planet was which. The overriding memory was, it was so windy we could hardly stand up

We bring our own tea with us, we find the tea served on board very weak. We like a builders cup of tea, especially in the morning, we are from the UK and love our tea.

We haven’t sailed on Celebrity, also we are not elite. We made many friends on the cruise who really enjoyed the cruise, ship and crew and have booked many more cruises. As I mentioned it’s good we all like different cruise lines and ships. Happy cruising 😎

We sailed on the Emerald Princess in November and loved every minute of it. We have previously sailed on The Royal, Sky, Caribbean, Crown and Discovery. Whilst the newer ships are all bells and whistles, we love the older more traditional ships, they have so much more character and a lot more spaces to find a seat! The food quality has reduced, but we still found many dishes we really enjoyed. The crew on this ship was the best we have ever had. It’s a good job we all like different ships/ cruise lines. We enjoyed our cruise on the Emerald so much that and booked two more cruises, we are so grateful to be cruising again. We all know nothing can be taken for granted anymore.

Really enjoyed your report and pictures too. We sailed on the Emerald from New York to Fort Lauderdale. We loved every minute of the cruise. We think the Emerald is our favourite ship. The crew were amazing, we really enjoyed all our food. The two comedians on our cruise were so funny, we could t stop laughing. I really enjoyed Gary’s volcanoes presentation, he was right about when the volcano in Iceland would blow….soon he said.

Routing for you Tom, I’ve never been successful yet, I’m going to try again on my next cruise. Our problem was we had a Princess shuttle that was delayed. We are getting there under our own steam next time.

The OBC promotion has finished and been replaced with free stateroom upgrade. I’ve been checking the prices of a few different cruises. All of them have increased with this new promotion. For example yesterday, the price of the 16 day grand European Explorer for a balcony cabin for 2 people was £4046, plus £300 OBC. Today, it’s nearly £6000 with no OBC for exactly the same cabin. I wonder if the next promotion will be half price plus and premium packages, but Princess have already increased their base price, so it won’t be a good deal at all.

Thank you for posting the menus, they look great

We got one yesterday from Sept 2022 too