Shelly97060

The tip is automatically added to the folio so you would only give cash if you wanted to tip over the 18%.

I haven’t had Premier ( only Plus) but given that the cover charges and associated gratuities for casual meals or speciality desserts covered by Plus don’t show on your folio as debits and credits I would imagine that Premier meals covered similarly wouldn’t show up in the folio. As a side note you can look in the app under packages and see what you have used.

I just returned from Discovery Princess yesterday so my info is current. Prior to sailing I made reservations for Crown Grill and The Catch by Rudi. The cost was $39 per person, paid in advance, for each venue. We also made reservations for Sabatini which was $35 pp. The day after we dined in each of the venues the 18% gratuity was added to our folio (listed as cover charge). The 360 was booked on the ship at $149 pp and it included the gratuity. We had the Plus package. Plus covers 2 casual meals and associated gratuity at places like Alfredo’s and Salty Dog Gastropub but does not include any specialty dining so if you have Plus or Standard you will be charged the 18% gratuity. The Premier package includes 2 Specialty dining meals. If you have Premier you would not be charged the 18% for the 2 included meals. Hopefully this helps answer your question.

if you booked flexible air and did not request early ticketing there should not be a change fee if you are more than 45 days out. However, the air prices could have gone up since your original flights were booked. If you accidentally selected restricted air then you are stuck. To get a true understanding of flight cost and availability go to Princess.com and click on “find a cruise” and find the cruise you are on and then you can pull up flight quotes to see what the air you want to change to would cost today. If you like the price normally I would suggest using Cruise Personalizer “manage Flights” to change the flights but it sounds like you might have some issue going on ( or you got a bad rep). I would call Princess and tell them you want to change your flights, if they give you a different price than what you see on Princess or tell you there’s a change fee because it’s been ticketed ask to be connected to the air department for assistance since you booked flexible air ( or just start with EZair dept). The air dept should be able to see when or why the ticket was issued. I have read this thread and see where you selected seats and think that could be the problem… if the airline allows seat selection within EZair then that does not trigger early ticketing or change your air from Flexible to Restricted. If you asked for early ticketing so you could use miles to upgrade or for other reasons then that would be a different matter.

I used it when disembarking in Fort Lauderdale 3 months ago.

Yes, your current medallions will work.

you can spend it on: Specialty Dining onboard, Surf and Turf or Filets nightly in the dining room, photos, spa treatments, excursions, jewelry, items from the shops, cameras, go pros, binoculars, flowers for your cabin, the difference in higher cost of beverages not in Plus packages… that OBC will be gone before you know it!

On Crown now and mattress is great! Bed is very comfortable.

AARP can email you the numbers again. I recently cancelled a cruise that I had used a GC on and for some reason instead of the amount going back to the original card it went to a different princess gift card I had used (card was also from AARP). I called AARP and they sent me the numbers within a few minutes and then I could check all the balances and locate which card the money had been refunded to.

I believe Fleetwide Starlink is that’s new.

Haven’t been able to log on to Princess all day today,

Currently on Island Princess and our standard balcony cabin on Baja deck does not have foot stools. I can see that they have them on the mini suite balcony below us though.

When you book your cruise there is a code TAs can apply to see whether you have a casino discount available on that cruise and apply the discount. They also can pull up your offers by looking under your captain circle number, For some of the free cabin offers they may need to contact the Casino reservation agents to get assistance in applying the offer but recently TA access has been expanded to include the ability to book more of the free offers directly.

@PacnGoNow your TA can check this for you.

@PacnGoNow no, the agent commission is not affected by the use of any Princess gift cards. -Shelly