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We are sailing away.  
 

The new disembarkation paperwork says disembarkation will be 9:30-11:40am; out of staterooms by 9am.

 

They slightly shifted the breakfast schedule as well.  Unfortunately I suspect the bar staff who have been very busy today will also be very busy again tomorrow.

 

We asked a few crew and have been told the shops will not open, the casino tables will not open, but the slot machines may open for a bit.

 

We did learn that the photo gallery was open so we bought souvenirs there that were rung up as “medallion accessories.”  
 

Still have some more OBC to go…

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I hope you have enough time to go around this system.

 

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The weather has also affected the shipment of our car from Maui to LA.

 

The Pasha ship scheduled to stop here tomorrow in Maui after leaving Honolulu today is bypassing Kahului & is going directly to Hilo. Winds have been very strong here & obviously it’s unsafe for a car carrier to dock in Maui. Their next ship sailed from Long Beach & is only docking in HNL before returning to LGB…guess our car will go by barge to HNL.
 

Some rough conditions between the West Coast & the Islands. 💨🌊

 

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We still hadn’t heard any announcements by 10am so I got suspicious and wandered the ship (and got what would prove to be our final coffees) and noticed people leaving the ship.

 

We checked our meeting time (11:30) and I had a hunch so we went at 10:45 and we’re about to cross the threshold into Wheelhouse when they called our number so we turned around and went to disembarkation.  The process was seamless and walked directly on through.  We had an Uber credit to use for this month but the taxis were all lined up in front of us and we don’t have a ton of time to spare now so we hopped in one and are speeding away.

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8 minutes ago, arctickitty said:

We still hadn’t heard any announcements by 10am so I got suspicious and wandered the ship (and got what would prove to be our final coffees) and noticed people leaving the ship.

 

We checked our meeting time (11:30) and I had a hunch so we went at 10:45 and we’re about to cross the threshold into Wheelhouse when they called our number so we turned around and went to disembarkation.  The process was seamless and walked directly on through.  We had an Uber credit to use for this month but the taxis were all lined up in front of us and we don’t have a ton of time to spare now so we hopped in one and are speeding away.


I am not sure where you were waiting.  Princess doesn’t make disembarkation announcements to the entire ship.  They are only made in the disembarkation lounges.

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4 minutes ago, spingal said:


I am not sure where you were waiting.  Princess doesn’t make disembarkation announcements to the entire ship.  They are only made in the disembarkation lounges.


Our paperwork said our meeting time was 11:30 so we honored that request and didn’t go crowd our assigned meeting lounge early in the morning.  
 

Every other port they made a shipwide announcement that we were cleared and the process was beginning so it’s not unreasonable to have expected an arrival announcement.  A single clearance announcement would have clued us in that they were running ahead of the published schedule.  No matter, we arrived to our departure spot at the correct time!

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For those of you sailing on the Crown in the future, look for this book I left in the library:

 

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Also look for:

 

-Artem (Good Spirits) until July

-Velimir (Good Spirits) only for 14 more days!

-Josy (Adagio) until August

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The last day we went to the Voice of the Ocean show.

 

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Being on a longer itinerary with lots of friendly, outgoing people, we socialized much more than we had on prior cruises.  We thus learned about the audition and preparation process for Voice of the Ocean from a fellow passenger and wanted to check it out.  It was a really fun show and the passengers all had a lot of guts to get up and do it.  It sounded like it was a value-added process for them as well as they got head shots and coaching.  

 

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Even though we went in rooting for the passenger who had told us about the show, we were won over and blown away by David from Liverpool, whom Josy from India in Adagio had introduced us to the previous night (and of course when we visited Josy later we asked him if he’d seen David from Liverpool lately and since he hadn’t, we let him know “his David” had won.  Josy seemed as proud as we were.  

 

 

 

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Final Afternoon Tea.

 

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We only made it two times the whole cruise.  The bonus of the captain initially cancelling Ensenada was that meal service switched to a sea day schedule and they had MDR lunch and Afternoon Tea (although Afternoon Tea was not advertised in either the Princess Patter or in the Journeyview Timeline—I asked the host at lunch) and it was nice to have a chance to catch one final MDR meal and one more Tea.

 

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@arctickittyThank you for the names of the bar staff who served you so well. I am sailing in August on the Crown. Will still look for these people, they might be back after a bit of a break to go home. Fingers crossed. 

The scones look decent. I love afternoon tea on board; sometimes I order it for my room. Can't wait.

Thanks again for all the information. I will look for your book as well. So nice of you to share.

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47 minutes ago, arctickitty said:

For those of you sailing on the Crown in the future, look for this book I left in the library:

 

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Also look for:

 

-Artem (Good Spirits) until July

-Velimir (Good Spirits) only for 14 more days!

-Josy (Adagio) until August

Boarding March 17 for 28 days. Thanks for letting us know. I certainly will be checking these out 

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7 hours ago, arctickitty said:


Our paperwork said our meeting time was 11:30 so we honored that request and didn’t go crowd our assigned meeting lounge early in the morning.  
 

Every other port they made a shipwide announcement that we were cleared and the process was beginning so it’s not unreasonable to have expected an arrival announcement.  A single clearance announcement would have clued us in that they were running ahead of the published schedule.  No matter, we arrived to our departure spot at the correct time!


They always want people out of their cabins so they can begin the turnaround for the next cruise.  Disembarkation information typically states that ship-wide announcements will not be made.

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1 hour ago, spingal said:


They always want people out of their cabins so they can begin the turnaround for the next cruise.  Disembarkation information typically states that ship-wide announcements will not be made.


We were out of our cabins.  We waited in a public area like the paperwork said. Are you saying people should just magically know to go to their meeting areas several hours before their meeting times?

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Before I go back to the beginning of the trip for the full review, I want to rip off the band-aid and deal with the Crown Grill. 

 

As we reviewed the MDR menus, it wasn’t a top priority to visit Crown Grill, but when Ensenada canceled and we had a pile of OBC, we booked a table for the last night.  


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