Rare mrell345 Posted January 25 #1 Share Posted January 25 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sox Fan Cruiser Posted January 25 #2 Share Posted January 25 They are the perfect size for using at the grocery store so your bags don’t get too heavy. With 12 or so bags, we often get comments about being obsessed with cruising to which we reply “we most certainly are!” 🤪 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rj59 Posted January 25 #3 Share Posted January 25 I've been getting really nice canvas ones on Celebrity, and on HAL a few weeks ago I also got a nice canvas one advertising their 150th anniversary. Both are actually capable of carrying a beach towel and other things, and the Celebrity one even has a zipped pouch inside. I have a pile of old Princess and HAL ones I keep in my trunk as shopping bags. It seems like the cost would be more than paid for in free advertising and loyalty, especially with current high prices and demand and so many new people interested in cruising but not sure where to start. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lanwood Posted January 25 #4 Share Posted January 25 56 minutes ago, Sox Fan Cruiser said: They are the perfect size for using at the grocery store so your bags don’t get too heavy. With 12 or so bags, we often get comments about being obsessed with cruising to which we reply “we most certainly are!” 🤪 Same here. I have about 10 or so still in good nick I use for shopping. Impressive sight to see when the trolley is full, and always turns a few heads in awe..😌 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thrak Posted January 26 #5 Share Posted January 26 2 hours ago, Sox Fan Cruiser said: They are the perfect size for using at the grocery store so your bags don’t get too heavy. With 12 or so bags, we often get comments about being obsessed with cruising to which we reply “we most certainly are!” 🤪 We used them for grocery bags but found that they biodegrade badly if left in the back of my wife's Jeep where the sun and the heat work on them. They start falling apart. We did get a number of comments when we would take a bunch of the blue bags to the store. I just told folks I had "the most expensive grocery bags in the store". 5 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Host CJSKIDS Posted January 26 #6 Share Posted January 26 54 minutes ago, Thrak said: We used them for grocery bags but found that they biodegrade badly if left in the back of my wife's Jeep where the sun and the heat work on them. They start falling apart. We did get a number of comments when we would take a bunch of the blue bags to the store. I just told folks I had "the most expensive grocery bags in the store". Well that explains what happened to all of ours because of the heat and humidity here in Florida. . My Publix bags are in perfect shape but lost all the Princess bags. It's too bad they don't give them out anymore. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nasa1974 Posted January 26 #7 Share Posted January 26 After my wife passed in 2021 I gave all the Princess bags away. Maybe I should have sold them on Ebay. 🙂 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1emerald1 Posted January 26 #8 Share Posted January 26 I use mine to tote things up and down the stairs, so I always have a hand free to hold onto the rail. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MissP22 Posted January 26 #9 Share Posted January 26 3 hours ago, nasa1974 said: After my wife passed in 2021 I gave all the Princess bags away. Maybe I should have sold them on Ebay. 🙂 1 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lx200gps Posted January 26 #10 Share Posted January 26 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare mrell345 Posted January 26 Author #11 Share Posted January 26 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 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellipooh Posted January 27 #12 Share Posted January 27 Wait - That’s the one you all remember so fondly? Yuck, I didn’t like those at all. Shapeless and not very sturdy. I thought everyone was reminiscing about the canvas-y white one with little blue logos across it. Now that one I saved and still use. 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PurpleTraveller Posted January 27 #13 Share Posted January 27 (edited) 11 hours 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? In June when on Crown Princess I asked my steward if it was possible to get a bag and he told me that the ship had run out of the bags and that they were not being made anymore. They were also not available on Royal Princess in December. Edited January 27 by PurpleTraveller 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jennybenny Posted January 27 #14 Share Posted January 27 I'd love a canvas bag!! Hope Princess upgrades and brings back a canvas bag Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Paula_MacFan Posted January 27 #15 Share Posted January 27 We still have the nice thick canvas ones given away in suites years ago. Also have the nice drawstring laundry bags which we use frequently for travel. We keep the old lightweight blue ones in our suitcases and use them in a pinch for various things. We're on the Regal now and have used them to bring a few beers back to the room for balcony sail away and to carry beach towels. We've seen a few other people using them too, but obviously they were carried on like ours as they aren't giving them away onboard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phabric Posted January 27 #16 Share Posted January 27 I keep a few in my suitcase encase I need them to carry beach towels, book, lotion to the pool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MissP22 Posted January 27 #17 Share Posted January 27 4 hours ago, phabric said: I keep a few in my suitcase encase I need them to carry beach towels, book, lotion to the pool. So do we but lately it not a Princess bag. 😄 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Cruise Raider Posted January 28 #18 Share Posted January 28 (edited) I just read that they might be coming back. They will look a little different than the bright blue bags of the past. It may just be rumor but even saw a photo of someone on the Sky Princess and they mentioned that they were to be giving them out fleet wide. Time will tell. Edited January 28 by Cruise Raider 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phabric Posted January 28 #19 Share Posted January 28 It looks nice, I won’t might having it 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MissP22 Posted January 28 #20 Share Posted January 28 1 hour ago, Cruise Raider said: I just read that they might be coming back. They will look a little different than the bright blue bags of the past. It may just be rumor but even saw a photo of someone on the Sky Princess and they mentioned that they were to be giving them out fleet wide. Time will tell. At what price? I'm sure it won't be free. 😉 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Cruise Raider Posted January 28 #21 Share Posted January 28 23 minutes ago, MissP22 said: At what price? I'm sure it won't be free. 😉 I never even thought about them charging for them. Perhaps they will go out to those that purchase a package 😉 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
louden Posted January 28 #22 Share Posted January 28 1 hour ago, Cruise Raider said: I just read that they might be coming back. They will look a little different than the bright blue bags of the past. It may just be rumor but even saw a photo of someone on the Sky Princess and they mentioned that they were to be giving them out fleet wide. Time will tell. Just got one yesterday on Sky Princess. Not as good quality but happy to have it. Louden 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Rick&Jeannie Posted January 28 #23 Share Posted January 28 On 1/25/2024 at 7:41 PM, Thrak said: We used them for grocery bags but found that they biodegrade badly if left in the back of my wife's Jeep where the sun and the heat work on them. They start falling apart. We did get a number of comments when we would take a bunch of the blue bags to the store. I just told folks I had "the most expensive grocery bags in the store". Yep...ours have pretty much all dry rotted. We kept them hanging out in the garage with our generic plastic grocery bags. In our environment, they don't seem to last more than about 2 years...not really being used at all. We did not use them at the grocery store. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Cruise Raider Posted January 28 #24 Share Posted January 28 5 minutes ago, Rick&Jeannie said: Yep...ours have pretty much all dry rotted. We kept them hanging out in the garage with our generic plastic grocery bags. In our environment, they don't seem to last more than about 2 years...not really being used at all. We did not use them at the grocery store. Several of ours just fell apart, too. But we had been using them for groceries all this time. I am happy they are coming out with some new ones now. PS .. I saw a joke on the internet during CoVid about carrying a Princess bag with you when out and about, just to ensure social distancing. 😆 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MissP22 Posted January 28 #25 Share Posted January 28 3 hours ago, Cruise Raider said: I never even thought about them charging for them. Perhaps they will go out to those that purchase a package 😉 Now that wouldn't surprise me at all. 😉 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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