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pompeii

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    Gardening, kayaking, snowshoeing, travel of course!
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    Princess
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    Europe

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  1. We're doing the same s2s in July out of Southampton as Mike above. However, we had no problem booking dining reservations on the app for each leg. On turnaround day, our dining reservations change from 6pm in the Provence dining room for the first 21 days to 5:40 in the Concerto for the remainder.
  2. I'm glad it's on the Royal now. We were on her from September - November last fall (2023) and they still had the old coffee and coffee machines in the buffet. And they were broken most of the time. We went through a lot of Starbucks Via!
  3. My husband and I will be disembarking from the Island Princess on July 26 at Southampton's Mayflower terminal and boarding the Regal that same day at the Ocean terminal. How easy is it to get from one terminal to the other? I assume walking won't be possible and I don't count on the cruise line to offer any type of assistance or transfer, so will a cab driver be willing to take us that short distance from one terminal to the other? Obviously, we'll have our luggage. Or is there some type of port transportation between terminals?
  4. We got free tokens no problem from guest services on the Sapphire last month for when we wanted to do a load or two ourselves. Elite laundry service was also pretty quick, next day or 2 days max.
  5. What I don't like is that it's not just the number of people signed up, it's that they don't know if they'll have a guide. So there can be plenty of people interested but they'll still not run the tour, or they'll cancel it. Just seems kind of iffy and unreliable to me.
  6. Here's another option for you. I have never used this operator and cannot vouch for them, but I am considering it for our date in August. Normandy D-Day Beaches Shore Excursion from Le Havre Cruise Port (vexperio.com)
  7. Regarding Overlord, I'm trying to book it from Le Havre for our stop on the Regal Princess in August, but they won't commit to running the tour. The email communication I've received is vague and says "I have added you to the wait list and we will let you know if we can open the tour. Again: We open group tours depending on demand. Please note this offers no guarantees and is demand dependent. We need a minimum of 8 people to open the tour but it also depends on how many and which guides we have available as to whether we can open the tour." For those who have used Overlord, did you run into this? I know from our roll call that at least one other couple is on their waitlist. It makes it very hard to plan if they don't even know if they'll have a guide for Normandy that day. It seems very odd to me for a tour operator that specializes in Normandy tours.
  8. Yes, there have been numerous reports of these calls. Enough so that when we got one, I interrupted right off the bat by saying if he was calling about the $7000 package, we weren’t interested. He said thanks and hung up. It’s a legit call but nothing we’d buy.
  9. Maybe it's triggered when your remaining balance is below the cost of Princess Vacation Protection on the booking?
  10. I just paid for the majority of my July cruise with AARP gift cards, leaving a balance of $347. The final payment date isn't until April, but I just received a "shortfall notice" from Princess stating the balance due. Does Princess automatically send these out if you have a small balance left, even if you're not near the final payment date? I'll pay it when I can purchase another card next month. When I read further down in the notice, it says "THE FINAL PAYMENT RECEIVED WAS INSUFFICIENT TO COVER THE PRINCESS VACATION PROTECTION/PLATINUM VACATION PROTECTION FEE. THE PRINCESS VACATION PROTECTION/PLATINUM VACATION PROTECTION HAS BEEN REMOVED FROM THE BOOKING." I looked at the booking and the insurance is still on there. Does anybody have experience with this? I'm not going to bother calling since the call center doesn't know how to do much except try to upsell to one of the packages. I'll email my pvp but they don't work on the weekends, so I wondered if I could get any answers here in the meantime.
  11. A couple of days ago my personalizer on the princess website would not accept a credit card payment. Tried several different cards, it just wouldn’t process it. Turns out a lot of people were having the same issue. The problem resolved itself overnight but my excursion went up by $40 during that time. Very frustrating.
  12. And above all, turns out browsers and search engines didn’t have anything to do with it
  13. Just curious...did the excursion you were looking at increase in price? One that I was watching went up by $40 yesterday from the day before, and on fb some people are complaining that their excursions went up during the time they were unable to pay. Kinda wondering if the credit card "pause" and rising excursion costs are related...?
  14. Looks like Princess got the message. It worked this morning and I was able to pay for my bottled water myself in the personalizer.
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