rachel_95762 Posted January 28, 2020 #1 Share Posted January 28, 2020 (edited) I have several 10 year old coffee punch cards from my last Princess Cruise. Will they accept these? Edited January 28, 2020 by rachel_95762 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jennybenny Posted January 28, 2020 #2 Share Posted January 28, 2020 Hit or miss, They say no, but you can always try 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colo Cruiser Posted January 28, 2020 #3 Share Posted January 28, 2020 5 minutes ago, rachel_95762 said: I have several 10 year old coffee punch cards from my last Princess Cruise. Will they accept these? No they expired 08/2019. It is now electronic and loaded on your account. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waltd Posted January 28, 2020 #4 Share Posted January 28, 2020 Have them framed as a memento of what use to be. You are too late. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thrak Posted January 28, 2020 #5 Share Posted January 28, 2020 After August 31, 2019 NO coffee cards are any good. Lots of info here on CC regarding this change. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
casofilia Posted January 28, 2020 #6 Share Posted January 28, 2020 Put them on eBay; there must be a collector somewhere!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nini Posted January 28, 2020 #7 Share Posted January 28, 2020 Darn! I store it with my passport so I do not lose it. Bittersweet... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
partybarbie Posted January 28, 2020 #8 Share Posted January 28, 2020 I personally witnessed someone using their old card, on board the Grand Princess, this month. I was surprised to see it was accepted. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Cruise Raider Posted January 28, 2020 #9 Share Posted January 28, 2020 12 hours ago, Thrak said: After August 31, 2019 NO coffee cards are any good. Lots of info here on CC regarding this change. I've had a different experience with this. I still have couple of old coffee cards and just took one of them with me on a cruise back in October. I went to the IC and I said to the barista, 'you don't have to but was just wondering if you still took old coffee cards'. He smiled and told me to write my name on the back on the card and took it and put it in a cup back by the ordering screen. You did have to give it up and at the end of the cruise, completely used or not, nobody would get it back. They found it whenever we went up to the IC for our coffee, punched it and placed it back in the cup. We still have a couple cards left ... and a cruise booked for this summer in which we don't have the beverage package, so we might try it again. If they say no, that's fine ... I refuse to chastise anyone for just doing their job. If they say yes ... well, yooohooo!! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Cruise Raider Posted January 28, 2020 #10 Share Posted January 28, 2020 3 minutes ago, partybarbie said: I personally witnessed someone using their old card, on board the Grand Princess, this month. I was surprised to see it was accepted. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. The situation that I wrote about above also happened to be on the Grand. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LARGIN Posted January 28, 2020 #11 Share Posted January 28, 2020 2 hours ago, partybarbie said: I personally witnessed someone using their old card, on board the Grand Princess, this month. I was surprised to see it was accepted. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. I was on the same cruise and saw the same thing.. Now I question why I gave away my last 7 cards 🙂 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JF - retired RRT Posted January 28, 2020 #12 Share Posted January 28, 2020 34 minutes ago, LARGIN said: I was on the same cruise and saw the same thing.. Now I question why I gave away my last 7 cards 🙂 I only gave away 3... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polmcs Posted January 28, 2020 #13 Share Posted January 28, 2020 4 hours ago, nini said: Darn! I store it with my passport so I do not lose it. Bittersweet... If I found a 10 year old coffee card next to my passport, I would be more worried about the validity of said passport, rather than whether I could spend the coffee card! 😉 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MissP22 Posted January 29, 2020 #14 Share Posted January 29, 2020 It depends on which ship you're sailing on. What ship are you on next cruise? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike45LC Posted January 29, 2020 #15 Share Posted January 29, 2020 I was told that the barrista will accept the ten year old coffee card, but only if they have some ten year old coffee to serve you. 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tgwabd Posted January 29, 2020 #16 Share Posted January 29, 2020 Remember the BOGO coffee card coupon in the old Princess coupon book... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rachel_95762 Posted January 29, 2020 Author #17 Share Posted January 29, 2020 12 hours ago, MissP22 said: It depends on which ship you're sailing on. What ship are you on next cruise? Royal Princess Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrkjones61 Posted January 30, 2020 #18 Share Posted January 30, 2020 1 hour ago, rachel_95762 said: Royal Princess 1 hour ago, rachel_95762 said: Royal Princess 1 hour ago, rachel_95762 said: On the Royal right now. Their answer was no. Our card was two years old. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FritzG Posted January 30, 2020 #19 Share Posted January 30, 2020 Darn! We tried using ours on the Pacific Princess in September 2019, and when they refused we threw 8 of them out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MissP22 Posted January 30, 2020 #20 Share Posted January 30, 2020 Sounds like the Royal is a little more restrictive in accepting the old cards unlike the Regal & Crown. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Cruise Raider Posted January 30, 2020 #21 Share Posted January 30, 2020 (edited) 22 hours ago, CarelessAndConfused said: Is there a chance that partiebarbie & LARGIN saw Cruise Raider using his/hers? Or are they just still that prevalent out there? I don't know about Largin but we've not had the pleasure of sailing on a cruise with PartyBarbie yet. PS ... there were about 20 cards in that cup on the cruise I was on. I still have 2 cards left, one half used and the other one is unused. Edited January 30, 2020 by Cruise Raider Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Cruise Raider Posted January 30, 2020 #22 Share Posted January 30, 2020 2 minutes ago, CarelessAndConfused said: So how were they issued in the past? Did one buy them like they buy a coffee package today? I don't understand how some people mass more than 1-2? I would think you'd use them prior to acquiring any new ones. Unless they were given out via elite benefits and are leftovers? They were elite / suite benefits for trading in our mini bar when we had the beverage package. Once they announced they were being discontinued, we didn't trade them in any longer. But, we still had like 4 old ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pms4104 Posted January 30, 2020 #23 Share Posted January 30, 2020 So nothing's really changed ... seems they're good forever, or at least while Princess exists? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike45LC Posted January 31, 2020 #24 Share Posted January 31, 2020 2 hours ago, pms4104 said: So nothing's really changed ... seems they're good forever, or at least while Princess exists? Huh? No, they are no longer good forever. Princess has declared that the old cardboard cards are no longer valid, although it seems that some barristas will honor them -- maybe only for one more cruise. The new Coffee Packages are electronic only, without a physical card, and these expire at the end of the cruise (leaving aside issues such as back-to-back). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pms4104 Posted January 31, 2020 #25 Share Posted January 31, 2020 11 minutes ago, Mike45LC said: Huh? No, they are no longer good forever. Princess has declared that the old cardboard cards are no longer valid, although it seems that some barristas will honor them -- maybe only for one more cruise. The new Coffee Packages are electronic only, without a physical card, and these expire at the end of the cruise (leaving aside issues such as back-to-back). I understand the expiry ... but apparently there are enuf exceptions to make it seem never-ending. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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