Thanksgiving

[Nanasue1950]

We will be on the Star Princess this November cruising to Hawaii. We will dock in Hilo on Thanksgiving. I am wondering if they will have Christmas decorations on the ship, up then, and have any special happenings for the holiday? Also Black Friday comes next and we will be in Oahu. Any chance of getting a two for one cruise sail?! Lol!

[CruiserBruce]

The decorations will probably go up after Thanksgiving.

[leaveitallbehind]

Agree with CruiserBruce, and based on our Thanksgiving and Christmas cruising experience, there will not likely be any decorations up at all during Thanksgiving, but will be starting to show early December for the Holiday week.  (And based on our NYE experience, they come down right after NYE).

 

Other than a Thanksgiving dinner menu there will also not likely be any special Holiday celebrations on board during your cruise.  And noting that you add LOL to the Black Friday sale comment, I would concur that there will probably not be any genuine 2 for 1 sales then.  But there are always BF "sales" going on - the question is at what real value v any other sales during the year.

Edited February 1, 2020 by leaveitallbehind

[Host Kat]

9 hours ago, Nanasue1950 said:

We will be on the Star Princess this November cruising to Hawaii. We will dock in Hilo on Thanksgiving. I am wondering if they will have Christmas decorations on the ship, up then, and have any special happenings for the holiday? Also Black Friday comes next and we will be in Oahu. Any chance of getting a two for one cruise sail?! Lol!

 

@Nanasue1950

 

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[polmcs]

10 hours ago, Nanasue1950 said:

We will be on the Star Princess this November cruising to Hawaii. We will dock in Hilo on Thanksgiving. I am wondering if they will have Christmas decorations on the ship, up then, and have any special happenings for the holiday? Also Black Friday comes next and we will be in Oahu. Any chance of getting a two for one cruise sail?! Lol!

We are on the same cruise. Usually the ship gets decorated on turn around day after the Thanksgiving holiday, but with this cruise, there is still another week to go before it arrives back in San Pedro, so I’m not expecting a full transformation from Turkey Day decorations over to Christmas. It’s possible that there might be a token effort to dress the ship a little to kick off the festive season. 

[kywildcatfanone]

They usually don't put up Christmas decorations till after Thanksgiving.

[Colo Cruiser]

I agree after TG.

[ar1950]

We've been to Hawaii three times in the same time frame and no Christmas decorations.  Each time the decorations began going up as we disembarked.  FWIW, they did put out Thanksgiving decorations for Thanksgiving day.

[voljeep]

also wondering since we will be on the SKY … thanksgiving will be our first sea day, so it looks like that will also be the formal night, since only one on a little 5 day getaway

[wrongwaywatson]

We've cruised the past 2 Thanksgivings on the Regal.  No holiday decorations were up and there was a traditional turkey dinner served that day, along with other choices.  

[Nanasue1950]

We are on the Hawaiian cruise until Dec. 6. Do you still think there will be no decorations then? I appreciate your info.

[Ombud]

On 2/1/2020 at 7:07 AM, Nanasue1950 said:

We will be on the Star Princess this November cruising to Hawaii. We will dock in Hilo on Thanksgiving. I am wondering if they will have Christmas decorations on the ship, up then, and have any special happenings for the holiday? Also Black Friday comes next and we will be in Oahu. Any chance of getting a two for one cruise sail?! Lol!

They had a gift card promo last Black Friday / Cyber Monday.  Pay for $500 card & get a $25 one added on. 

[MarcsSharon]

I have found they usually put the decorations up on Dec.1

[ar1950]

2 hours ago, Nanasue1950 said:

We are on the Hawaiian cruise until Dec. 6. Do you still think there will be no decorations then? I appreciate your info.

More than likely the Christmas decorations will be brought on board and be put up as you are disembarking.  The same as we experienced, BTW.

Edited February 2, 2020 by ar1950

[LDVinNC]

We were on the Island Princess on a ten day Caribbean cruise that ended Dec 6th.  No decorations for Christmas.

[kywildcatfanone]

On 2/2/2020 at 9:28 AM, Nanasue1950 said:

We are on the Hawaiian cruise until Dec. 6. Do you still think there will be no decorations then? I appreciate your info.

I would expect them to go up the days after thanksgiving, so I would think yes, they will be up by December 6th, assuming they are brought on the week before.