JamieLogical's Live from the Enchanted Princess 5/4

[gizfish]

How comfortable or uncomfortable is the bed.  My past experience is princess is worst then rccl then msc with ncl regular rooms and haven more comfortable than any other bed anywhere other than my own.  I'm hoping princess is better now?

[Torfamm]

6 hours ago, gizfish said:

How comfortable or uncomfortable is the bed.  My past experience is princess is worst then rccl then msc with ncl regular rooms and haven more comfortable than any other bed anywhere other than my own.  I'm hoping princess is better now?

Most people think the beds are very, very comfortable. We both really like the beds on Enchanted.

[kywildcatfanone]

8 hours ago, gizfish said:

How comfortable or uncomfortable is the bed.  My past experience is princess is worst then rccl then msc with ncl regular rooms and haven more comfortable than any other bed anywhere other than my own.  I'm hoping princess is better now?

I will say the beds are decent to good.  The pillows, those are pretty terrible.

[KKB]

2 hours ago, Torfamm said:

Most people think the beds are very, very comfortable. We both really like the beds on Enchanted.

I cannot speak to the Enchanted, but we find Princess beds to be the most comfortable at sea.

Now, it depends on your preferences, of course.

We find RCCL & Celebrity beds to be bricks.

MSC was far too soft on both my sailings. (felt as if it needed to be replaced)

 

[Itchy&Scratchy]

9 hours ago, gizfish said:

How comfortable or uncomfortable is the bed.  I'm hoping princess is better now?

the beds were upgraded recently, but pre-pandemic it was like sleeping on a rock. Somewhat better now.

 

I was very comfortable on X's Reflection bed (reg inside cabin). I do not remember being uncomfortable on MSC Seascape (reg balcony room).

I do have a very bad back and at home we sleep on a memory foam matt.

Edited May 7 by Itchy&Scratchy

[Treasure Hunter]

Whatever happened to no shoes, no shirt no food? I guess I. This case the bartender only saw him from the waist up.

[Treasure Hunter]

My mattress on the Emerald ( reserve mini suite in September)  was old and mushy like a hammock but after alerting the head of housekeeping, it was changed. I like a rock. That’s what makes horse racing. 

[Robkat]

13 hours ago, JamieLogical said:

Just saw a barefoot man walk up to the Bellini's bar and sit down on one of the stools. This is a bar on deck 7 between Sabatini's and Gigi's, not the pool deck! He was otherwise wearing shorts, a polo shirt, and a baseball cap.

Pretty disgusting and very inappropriate.  

 

It always strikes me that people are often quite strident in their calls to "ignore what other people are doing, it doesn't affect you".   That's an incorrect argument ... things like this do affect other passengers because it's gross to see, and in many cases, it's also unsanitary.

 

On our cruise on Enchanted last week, there was a guy sitting at a table in IC, who had slipped his flip flop off and, at first, had his bare foot crossed up on his leg.  DH and I tried to ignore him, and when we came back to our table with our items, he had his foot pressed up on the table. 

 

Sorry, I'm all about live and let live ... unless it's disgusting AND unsanitary!  We felt like it would have been perfectly appropriate for a Princess employee to ask him to get his bare foot off the table.

Sad that the guy couldn't figure that out himself.

 

We understand that Princess doesn't want to offend any of their passengers, but there just have to be certain circumstances where they should be able to discreetly (and quickly) advise people when they are offending other passengers.

 

Rant over ... 

 

[PMGS247]

Thanks for the detailed breakdown! Living vicariously through you as a month ago today we were at Princess Cays.  Want to go back on board!

 

Seems like a lot of effort to get the drinks thing squared away when you were at 12/15.  It is annoying that they don't listen to you when you ask them to split the drinks evenly but I think that's just an unfortunate reality at this point...as long as you don't actually go over and start incurring charges it doesn't really matter.  They should tell you at the time if that happens where they're about to serve you a charged beverage which would be an opportunity to say no, they've been charging everything to your account and they need to go on the other one....although I wouldn't fall out of my chair in shock if they just silently charged you and you have to take it up with guest services later. 

 

I would just keep a close eye on it and have your other half order the next couple rounds or use their phone to order on the app for both.  Going down the path of trying to fix it on the fly with chat or guest services is just too distracting in my book.  I'm going to take some basic steps to avoid being charged by playing games with who orders the drinks and whose app we use but worst case deal with charges the next day.  Chat function will just send me through the roof and ruin my evening LOL

[edspec]

I don't understand why bare feet are any worse than shoes?  His feet have most likely been washed in the last 24 hours while his shoes could be carrying traces of dog feces, urine from a public bathroom from three weeks ago, etc... 

I agree no feet on a table but I wouldn't want shoes on there either. Hopefully his feet have had a pedicure recently but that goes for anyone wearing shoes that show their feet.  

[JamieLogical]

Yesterday was our port stop in Cozumel. We decided early on that we were not going to get off the ship. We woke up early enough to watch the boat sail into the pier and get tied up. That is always a fun process to watch and it was cool seeing it from our vantage on the front of the ship.

 

We enjoyed our room service breakfast out on the balcony. My husband had written in on the room service card asking for BOTH sugar and splenda and were actually delivered both. I went with the pizza muffin again and my husband tried the breakfast sandwich. It was definitely better than the one he had received on the Emerald Princess with its 2”x2” piece of paper-thin lunch meat ham. However, he didn’t eat it all, because we decided we would go down to the Amalfi Dining Room to try out MDR breakfast.

 

We were seated quickly at a two-top and another couple was seated right next to us shortly afterward. We all got coffee The other couple and I all wanted artificial sweetener and it took a long time and asking three people to eventually get some. Not sure why they wouldn’t just have it sitting on the tables. I imagine with Princess’ older demographic, a huge percentage of them don’t use sugar.

 

I was also disappointed to see that there is no build-your-own omelet option. I thought that was standard for all cruise line MDRs (and pretty much any restaurant that serves breakfast on land as well?). They only had plain, ham & cheese, or mushroom & cheese. So, I went with some over-easy eggs, bacon, and white toast. My husband ordered scrambled eggs, sausage, and white toast.

 

Anyone following my MSC Live Blogs will know what a challenge it is to accomplish toast on those ships. Not so here on the Enchanted as the butter was brought out before the food, my toast was actually toasted, and a man came around with jam shortly after my toast was delivered. My husband’s toast and sausage were delivered on a separate plate after his eggs and I don’t think I got a photo of that, so don’t be alarmed when you see just a photo of a perfect circle of scrambled eggs.

 

We had a really nice chat with the couple next to us. We talked about cruise lines we sailed and what we have liked and disliked about them and what has changed in cruising post-COVID.

 

After breakfast, we went back to the room for our games and headed to Princess Live ahead of trivia. We had planned to get drinks at the Princess Live bar, but it was closed, so we rolled the dice and my husband ordered us some mimosas and bottles of water through the app.

 

We played a round or two of Rummy and then Wally and Wes showed up to join us for trivia. We had run into them on embarkation day and then I ran into them the second night and we agreed to try to do morning trivia together. We didn’t win, but we didn’t do terribly. Also, our drinks actually showed up!

 

After trivia, we headed down to Good Spirits, since they were actually open and we set up Splendor Duel. I went up to the bar for our second round of mimosas, since the first round would have been charged to my husband’s account through the app. Later, a server came around asking if we wanted another round and we asked him to charge one to each of our accounts.

 

We had decided on the buffet for lunch, since only the buffet, Gigi’s, and Salty Dog were serving lunch as it was a port day. More accurately, we planned to go up to the buffet, get seats, I would get my food from the buffet and my husband was planning to get food from Salty Dog. However, Salty Dog doesn’t work like it did on the Emerald Princess. Apparently, on the Enchanted, you go up, place an order, and they bring it to you at a nearby table. Since my husband wanted to come into the buffet and eat with me, he didn’t want to have to wait at a nearby table. So he ended up with a burger from the little grill station inside the buffet.

 

For my food, I got some tortilla chips and put some chili con carne on top and some cheese sauce. Then I went over to the Indian station and put some sort of Indian beef stuff on top as well. The Indian beef was way better than the chile con carne so I mostly ate that. The cheese sauce tasted like nothing at all. I also went over to the kids’ station where I had not seen a single kid and got two small chicken fingers and some french fries. I put some vinegar on my fries and filled a little cup with HP sauces and headed back to the table, but while I was getting my sauces, I overheard an incredibly rude and entitled woman interacting with the crew. She used a very snooty and exasperated tone when talking to them. First, two crew members were clearly mid-conversation and she repeatedly and demandingly said “excuse me, excuse me, excuse me” until they had to cut off their conversation then she asked them where the pickle relish was and it was literally RIGHT in front of her. Then she came over to the little sauce station and tried to put some mustard on her hot dog and just held the bottle up towards the crew members and said “it’s empty!” She didn’t even say “excuse me” that time. It just seemed like she jumped straight into Karen mode without even giving them a chance to help her first.

 

Anyway, we had our lunch. The chicken fingers were not good. The fries were fine. Then we went looking for desserts. We found some sticky toffee pudding and were both very excited about it. We each got a serving and then took our bowls out to Swirl to have some vanilla ice cream put on top. It was very good.

 

Then it was time to nap, so we headed back to the room. My husband, once again, got up before me and went off to play is Switch and get some coffee. When I got up I grabbed our games and met him down near the International Cafe to get some coffee of my own. I gave up trying to get a shot of Bailey’s in it though as, by this point, we were approaching the all-aboard time so most people were coming back onboard and Good Spirits was the only bad open in the interior of the ship, so there was quite a line.

 

After having my coffee, we decided to roam in search of a place to play our games and settled on the tables and chairs in the hallway with the shops. Turned out the Bellini’s bar was open, but we ended up not ordering any drinks. Once we had finished our game, it was close to 4:00 when Crown Grill Bar was scheduled to open, so we just headed over there and played a round of Rummy while we waited for the bar to open.

 

We had a couple of rounds from Crown Grill Bar. By this point, we had realized that my husband’s drink order from Princess Live in the morning, while successfully delivered, still only showed as “preparing” in the app and when he had tried to order coffee earlier, it just got added to that earlier order and remained in limbo since then. He had to chat with guest services through the app, send them a screenshot of the stuck order, and then they were able to cancel it out. But he had ZERO drinks on his account for the day at this point. Who knows where that third mimosa from the morning had been charged? He should have had the two mimosas he ordered through the app and one mimosa from the roaming server in Good Spirits. I had my correct total of three drinks on my app: the first round of mimosas that I had gone up to the bar to order at Good Spirits and the one from the roaming server. Since he had zero drinks on his account, I sent him to the bar for our first round at Crown Grill.

 

Once we had our drinks and played a few more hands of Rummy, we headed up to the room to get changed for dinner and so my husband could try out the travel router to see whether he would be able to work from the ship in August. He didn’t get it fully working before we had to head down for our pre-dinner drinks and our reservation for Sabatini’s at 6:00. That reminds me! We had managed to make reservations at Sabatini’s for 6:00 by stopping by the host stand there the previous night even though everything in the app and on the touch screens said Sabatini’s was fully booked for the week.

 

We went to Bellini’s and tried some of their prosecco-based cocktails and then over to Sabatini’s for our reservation. The menu had changed since we were at Sabatini’s on the Emerald. They brought us bread and fried rice balls unsolicited. Then we were supposed to eat an appetizer, pasta, main, and dessert! Yeah right! I ordered the appetizer with fried seafood and my husband ordered the meat & cheese plate. Then for pasta I ordered the lobster tortelloni as my main and my husband got the fettuccini. For his main, he ordered the Ossobuco. All of it was very good, there was just WAY too much of it. We decided to skip dessert.

 

After dinner, I wanted to go down to the casino to figure out what I needed to do for the slot tournament. There was a long line out the main entrance so I asked one of the people in it what their time slot was and it was 7:45. Since my time slot wasn't until 8:00, I went over to the cashier to cash out my bank from the previous day then I decided to run up to my room to get my invitation since I saw that a lot of people waiting in line had theirs with them.

 

When the host called for the 8:00 people to line up, I got in the line, which didn't move very quickly, but I was able to get a bit of a sense of what was going on. They had 12 people at a time sit at machines that all had the same game loaded on them. Once the game started, you had 1 minute to mash the spin button as fast as you could and try to touch all the bells and coins that came up on the screen.

 

The woman who sat next to me had Parkinson's so really just had no hope. I also had no hope, as it turns out. The top 12 players would play in the final round at 9:00. I had seen on the screen at the desk that the current top 12 all had point totals over 4 million. I ended my turn with something like 2 million. Oh well, it was interesting at least.

 

I then tried to stick around and play some normal slots for a bit, but it was just sooo crowded and smokey with all the people crammed in there for the tournament. My eyes were literally watering from all the smoke.

 

We had talked about going to O’Malley's to listen to Celtic Wave later, so I just headed over there early to get seats and listened to the band doing 70’s hits in the Piazza. They were very good and they had everyone up and dancing. It was a nice time.

 

We had some Clover Breezes and waited for Celtic Wave to play and once they did, we stayed for the full set. It was really fun and we probably drank a bit too much.

 

After they finished, I headed up to Slice for some pizza. My husband tried to get to the buffet for some cookies, but it had already shut down. I don't love that three isn't a late-night snack available at the buffet on Princess. The buffet is only open until 9:30, Slice closes at 11:00 and the only thing left open at that point is Internal Care, which I guess is okay if you like pre-made sandwiches as a snack. Pizza is fine for me as a late snack, but eating tomato sauce that late in the day causes my husband acid reflux when he is sleeping, so it’s not an option for him.

 

He decided to try to order a chocolate chip cookie and french fries via room service and ended up with the most ridiculous chocolate chip cookie ever. It was about an inch thick and about 5 inches in diameter. The “cookie” part was more like a cake and had oats in it and there were just some chocolate chips stuck on top of it? He tried it, but did not eat it.

 

Then we went to bed as we had an excursion booked in Belize for the morning.

[JamieLogical]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited May 7 by JamieLogical

[doghog]

11 minutes ago, JamieLogical said:

I was also disappointed to see that there is no build-your-own omelet option. I thought that was standard for all cruise line MDRs (and pretty much any restaurant that serves breakfast on land as well?). They only had plain, ham & cheese, or mushroom & cheese. So, I went with some over-easy eggs, bacon, and white toast. My husband ordered scrambled eggs, sausage, and white toast.

We were on the Enchanted 27 March - 6 April. We ate in the MDR (Amalfi) every morning for breakfast. We both had omelets a few different mornings and always ordered our omelets the way we like them. Which included the cheese of our choice, green bell peppers, onions, mushrooms, sausage, ham, etc. Yes not listed on the menu but no problem when asked. We had excellent service all mornings. We ate all our suppers in the Amalfi MDR and also had excellent service the entire cruise. 

Edited May 7 by doghog

[KKB]

23 minutes ago, JamieLogical said:

Yesterday was our port stop in Cozumel. We decided early on that we were not going to get off the ship. We woke up early enough to watch the boat sail into the pier and get tied up. That is always a fun process to watch and it was cool seeing it from our vantage on the front of the ship.

 

We enjoyed our room service breakfast out on the balcony. My husband had written in on the room service card asking for BOTH sugar and splenda and were actually delivered both. I went with the pizza muffin again and my husband tried the breakfast sandwich. It was definitely better than the one he had received on the Emerald Princess with its 2”x2” piece of paper-thin lunch meat ham. However, he didn’t eat it all, because we decided we would go down to the Amalfi Dining Room to try out MDR breakfast.

 

We were seated quickly at a two-top and another couple was seated right next to us shortly afterward. We all got coffee The other couple and I all wanted artificial sweetener and it took a long time and asking three people to eventually get some. Not sure why they wouldn’t just have it sitting on the tables. I imagine with Princess’ older demographic, a huge percentage of them don’t use sugar.

 

I was also disappointed to see that there is no build-your-own omelet option. I thought that was standard for all cruise line MDRs (and pretty much any restaurant that serves breakfast on land as well?). They only had plain, ham & cheese, or mushroom & cheese. So, I went with some over-easy eggs, bacon, and white toast. My husband ordered scrambled eggs, sausage, and white toast.

 

Anyone following my MSC Live Blogs will know what a challenge it is to accomplish toast on those ships. Not so here on the Enchanted as the butter was brought out before the food, my toast was actually toasted, and a man came around with jam shortly after my toast was delivered. My husband’s toast and sausage were delivered on a separate plate after his eggs and I don’t think I got a photo of that, so don’t be alarmed when you see just a photo of a perfect circle of scrambled eggs.

 

We had a really nice chat with the couple next to us. We talked about cruise lines we sailed and what we have liked and disliked about them and what has changed in cruising post-COVID.

 

After breakfast, we went back to the room for our games and headed to Princess Live ahead of trivia. We had planned to get drinks at the Princess Live bar, but it was closed, so we rolled the dice and my husband ordered us some mimosas and bottles of water through the app.

 

We played a round or two of Rummy and then Wally and Wes showed up to join us for trivia. We had run into them on embarkation day and then I ran into them the second night and we agreed to try to do morning trivia together. We didn’t win, but we didn’t do terribly. Also, our drinks actually showed up!

 

After trivia, we headed down to Good Spirits, since they were actually open and we set up Splendor Duel. I went up to the bar for our second round of mimosas, since the first round would have been charged to my husband’s account through the app. Later, a server came around asking if we wanted another round and we asked him to charge one to each of our accounts.

 

We had decided on the buffet for lunch, since only the buffet, Gigi’s, and Salty Dog were serving lunch as it was a port day. More accurately, we planned to go up to the buffet, get seats, I would get my food from the buffet and my husband was planning to get food from Salty Dog. However, Salty Dog doesn’t work like it did on the Emerald Princess. Apparently, on the Enchanted, you go up, place an order, and they bring it to you at a nearby table. Since my husband wanted to come into the buffet and eat with me, he didn’t want to have to wait at a nearby table. So he ended up with a burger from the little grill station inside the buffet.

 

For my food, I got some tortilla chips and put some chili con carne on top and some cheese sauce. Then I went over to the Indian station and put some sort of Indian beef stuff on top as well. The Indian beef was way better than the chile con carne so I mostly ate that. The cheese sauce tasted like nothing at all. I also went over to the kids’ station where I had not seen a single kid and got two small chicken fingers and some french fries. I put some vinegar on my fries and filled a little cup with HP sauces and headed back to the table, but while I was getting my sauces, I overheard an incredibly rude and entitled woman interacting with the crew. She used a very snooty and exasperated tone when talking to them. First, two crew members were clearly mid-conversation and she repeatedly and demandingly said “excuse me, excuse me, excuse me” until they had to cut off their conversation then she asked them where the pickle relish was and it was literally RIGHT in front of her. Then she came over to the little sauce station and tried to put some mustard on her hot dog and just held the bottle up towards the crew members and said “it’s empty!” She didn’t even say “excuse me” that time. It just seemed like she jumped straight into Karen mode without even giving them a chance to help her first.

 

Anyway, we had our lunch. The chicken fingers were not good. The fries were fine. Then we went looking for desserts. We found some sticky toffee pudding and were both very excited about it. We each got a serving and then took our bowls out to Swirl to have some vanilla ice cream put on top. It was very good.

 

Then it was time to nap, so we headed back to the room. My husband, once again, got up before me and went off to play is Switch and get some coffee. When I got up I grabbed our games and met him down near the International Cafe to get some coffee of my own. I gave up trying to get a shot of Bailey’s in it though as, by this point, we were approaching the all-aboard time so most people were coming back onboard and Good Spirits was the only bad open in the interior of the ship, so there was quite a line.

 

After having my coffee, we decided to roam in search of a place to play our games and settled on the tables and chairs in the hallway with the shops. Turned out the Bellini’s bar was open, but we ended up not ordering any drinks. Once we had finished our game, it was close to 4:00 when Crown Grill Bar was scheduled to open, so we just headed over there and played a round of Rummy while we waited for the bar to open.

 

We had a couple of rounds from Crown Grill Bar. By this point, we had realized that my husband’s drink order from Princess Live in the morning, while successfully delivered, still only showed as “preparing” in the app and when he had tried to order coffee earlier, it just got added to that earlier order and remained in limbo since then. He had to chat with guest services through the app, send them a screenshot of the stuck order, and then they were able to cancel it out. But he had ZERO drinks on his account for the day at this point. Who knows where that third mimosa from the morning had been charged? He should have had the two mimosas he ordered through the app and one mimosa from the roaming server in Good Spirits. I had my correct total of three drinks on my app: the first round of mimosas that I had gone up to the bar to order at Good Spirits and the one from the roaming server. Since he had zero drinks on his account, I sent him to the bar for our first round at Crown Grill.

 

Once we had our drinks and played a few more hands of Rummy, we headed up to the room to get changed for dinner and so my husband could try out the travel router to see whether he would be able to work from the ship in August. He didn’t get it fully working before we had to head down for our pre-dinner drinks and our reservation for Sabatini’s at 6:00. That reminds me! We had managed to make reservations at Sabatini’s for 6:00 by stopping by the host stand there the previous night even though everything in the app and on the touch screens said Sabatini’s was fully booked for the week.

 

We went to Bellini’s and tried some of their prosecco-based cocktails and then over to Sabatini’s for our reservation. The menu had changed since we were at Sabatini’s on the Emerald. They brought us bread and fried rice balls unsolicited. Then we were supposed to eat an appetizer, pasta, main, and dessert! Yeah right! I ordered the appetizer with fried seafood and my husband ordered the meat & cheese plate. Then for pasta I ordered the lobster tortelloni as my main and my husband got the fettuccini. For his main, he ordered the Ossobuco. All of it was very good, there was just WAY too much of it. We decided to skip dessert.

 

After dinner, I wanted to go down to the casino to figure out what I needed to do for the slot tournament. There was a long line out the main entrance so I asked one of the people in it what their time slot was and it was 7:45. Since my time slot wasn't until 8:00, I went over to the cashier to cash out my bank from the previous day then I decided to run up to my room to get my invitation since I saw that a lot of people waiting in line had theirs with them.

 

When the host called for the 8:00 people to line up, I got in the line, which didn't move very quickly, but I was able to get a bit of a sense of what was going on. They had 12 people at a time sit at machines that all had the same game loaded on them. Once the game started, you had 1 minute to mash the spin button as fast as you could and try to touch all the bells and coins that came up on the screen.

 

The woman who sat next to me had Parkinson's so really just had no hope. I also had no hope, as it turns out. The top 12 players would play in the final round at 9:00. I had seen on the screen at the desk that the current top 12 all had point totals over 4 million. I ended my turn with something like 2 million. Oh well, it was interesting at least.

 

I then tried to stick around and play some normal slots for a bit, but it was just sooo crowded and smokey with all the people crammed in there for the tournament. My eyes were literally watering from all the smoke.

 

We had talked about going to O’Malley's to listen to Celtic Wave later, so I just headed over there early to get seats and listened to the band doing 70’s hits in the Piazza. They were very good and they had everyone up and dancing. It was a nice time.

 

We had some Clover Breezes and waited for Celtic Wave to play and once they did, we stayed for the full set. It was really fun and we probably drank a bit too much.

 

After they finished, I headed up to Slice for some pizza. My husband tried to get to the buffet for some cookies, but it had already shut down. I don't love that three isn't a late-night snack available at the buffet on Princess. The buffet is only open until 9:30, Slice closes at 11:00 and the only thing left open at that point is Internal Care, which I guess is okay if you like pre-made sandwiches as a snack. Pizza is fine for me as a late snack, but eating tomato sauce that late in the day causes my husband acid reflux when he is sleeping, so it’s not an option for him.

 

He decided to try to order a chocolate chip cookie and french fries via room service and ended up with the most ridiculous chocolate chip cookie ever. It was about an inch thick and about 5 inches in diameter. The “cookie” part was more like a cake and had oats in it and there were just some chocolate chips stuck on top of it? He tried it, but did not eat it.

 

Then we went to bed as we had an excursion booked in Belize for the morning.

I have ordered omelets in the MDR, requesting what I want on Princess.

THAT BEING SAID--we sure found out that Princess seems to have site-based management. 

Let's just say many things were handled differently on the Island in Oct than the Regal last month. Didn't make or break our cruise, but we sensed serious micro-managing on the Regal.

 

International Cafe has always had cookies on our cruises--do ask, they may have them behind the counter.

Good to know about your room service cookies; our friends ordered a burger from the app & it was AMAZING. 

Edited May 7 by KKB

[partybarbie]

It’s usually not a problem to ask for a different omelet than what is offered on the menu. My husband likes salsa on his and they can get that too.

 

As for the drinks, I have given up worrying about it unless we get charged extra. It’s just not worth it. I know other people’s drinks are charged to us and some of ours are charged to others. Once at the bar, my husband overheard someone give his cabin number to the bartender. Unbelievable!

[Wishing on a star]

I can not have the sugar, and am picky about which sweetener I use...   I  ALWAYS  carry my pink packets with me.   I found out the hard way that one never knows what are actually in some of those packets...  and they will give me a migraine...  They are known for this...they are just toxic to many of us.

 

Once, on a Princess cruise, I was two days in before I realized why I was feeling ill....   And, on that one, for some reason, it was natural sugar that was hard to find!!!! 

[Itchy&Scratchy]

1 minute ago, Wishing on a star said:

I can not have the sugar, and am picky about which sweetener I use...   I  ALWAYS  carry my pink packets with me.

we always carry Truvia with us for my DH. To our surprise, Celebrity had Truvia on every table in MDR and the buffet along with the other sweeteners. But not Princess...

[Wishing on a star]

I have seen that on the Sun Princess, there are two,  yes just TWO, breakfast plate options.

Some have had success with requests.  But this is the lame and insane way Princess thinks it is going to go with breakfast.    

 

Princess is really going the wrong direction here.   Breakfast on a cruise or an inclusive vacation is a BIG thing.    Just like adult only areas that might possibly disappear.    

[Happy2cruise]

1 hour ago, Treasure Hunter said:

Whatever happened to no shoes, no shirt no food? I guess I. This case the bartender only saw him from the waist up.

On our cruise in March on the Enchanted a man came onto deck 5 to go to the International Cafe wearing a speedo....nothing else no shirt, no shoes. Wow!!

[555]

46 minutes ago, JamieLogical said:

I was also disappointed to see that there is no build-your-own omelet option. I thought that was standard for all cruise line MDRs (and pretty much any restaurant that serves breakfast on land as well?). They only had plain, ham & cheese, or mushroom & cheese. So, I went with some over-easy eggs, bacon, and white toast. My husband ordered scrambled eggs, sausage, and white toast.

That's quite strange since they've had built you own omelets on the Enchanted for years now. It was on the end of the line closest to the Wake View Bar.

[azbirdmom]

45 minutes ago, JamieLogical said:

We had decided on the buffet for lunch, since only the buffet, Gigi’s, and Salty Dog were serving lunch as it was a port day. More accurately, we planned to go up to the buffet, get seats, I would get my food from the buffet and my husband was planning to get food from Salty Dog. However, Salty Dog doesn’t work like it did on the Emerald Princess. Apparently, on the Enchanted, you go up, place an order, and they bring it to you at a nearby table. Since my husband wanted to come into the buffet and eat with me, he didn’t want to have to wait at a nearby table. So he ended up with a burger from the little grill station inside the buffet.

He could have either sat at a table nearby and taken his food with him when it arrived or told them what he was going to do and they would have worked it out.

 

46 minutes ago, JamieLogical said:

I also went over to the kids’ station where I had not seen a single kid and got two small chicken fingers and some french fries. 

 

Anyway, we had our lunch. The chicken fingers were not good.

Hmmnm, are you sure they weren't fish fingers?  They didn't have any chicken fingers last week in the kid's section even though they kind of looked like chicken.  I asked one of the crew behind the buffet and he confirmed they were indeed fish.  Kind of surprising.

 

47 minutes ago, JamieLogical said:

Once the game started, you had 1 minute to mash the spin button as fast as you could and try to touch all the bells and coins that came up on the screen.

Yes, that's the way all but one of the tournaments I've participated in on Princess ships have worked.  At least it was only one minute and not three or longer, those are really painful.  The beating the heck out of the buttons strategy helps to get the most spins but basically if someone gets the high paying win on a single spin that's the winner regardless of the number of spins.  In other words being lucky enough to sit at the right machine.  The one time it wasn't like that was in Australia pre-Covid.  I think they figured out that it was much easier physically to set a time limit and give people X number of spins in 3 minutes.  My first round I was still attacking the buttons and was done in 2 minutes.  I qualified for the finals and took my time (and won!).  I think that's much better way to do it.

[azbirdmom]

26 minutes ago, Wishing on a star said:

I have seen that on the Sun Princess, there are two,  yes just TWO, breakfast plate options.

Some have had success with requests.  But this is the lame and insane way Princess thinks it is going to go with breakfast.    

 

Princess is really going the wrong direction here.   Breakfast on a cruise or an inclusive vacation is a BIG thing.    Just like adult only areas that might possibly disappear.    

 

It's the new port day express MDR breakfast menu.  We didn't eat down there but heard grumbling about it.  We will see if this experiment lasts.

[azbirdmom]

6 minutes ago, 555 said:

That's quite strange since they've had built you own omelets on the Enchanted for years now. It was on the end of the line closest to the Wake View Bar.

 

Yes they were making omelets in the buffet every day last week on the Enchanted.

[JamieLogical]

47 minutes ago, Itchy&Scratchy said:

we always carry Truvia with us for my DH. To our surprise, Celebrity had Truvia on every table in MDR and the buffet along with the other sweeteners. But not Princess...

 

Yes, that is one thing I definitely miss about Celebrity, as Truvia is my favorite and the one I use at home.

[JamieLogical]

27 minutes ago, 555 said:

That's quite strange since they've had built you own omelets on the Enchanted for years now. It was on the end of the line closest to the Wake View Bar.

 

This was in the MDR, not the buffet. As others have suggested, I may try building my own next time, but if they are willing to accommodate build-your-own, why not list that on the menu?!?!?