Suite Susie

You will get 2 litres of liquor of your choice, plus a bottle of Champagne. You will also get Sparkling wine with the included Balcony Breakfast, and drinks with your included Balcony dinner. We still took out the Premier package with our Sky Suite, as we enjoy drinks in the bars and wine with dinner, coffees etc. Only you can decide on the value of a package - the non drinkers would also benefit from non alcoholic drinks and coffees, internet and gratuities. The Enclave is included for you all.

I just realised that and edited my earlier post, but you saw it too soon! You will love the Land of the Midnight Sun cruise. That was the one we were on last June and we were mostly blessed with hot, sunny weather. Suggest you book it as planned, but keep an eye on the weather forecasts and maybe try and shift it if the forecast doesn’t look good. We had 75F in the North Cape!

Agree that there should have been a private hot tub. Easily enough space if they lost the big round sunbed and put it there. We also used the hot tub just outside the door in the upper retreat area, several times. Useful to be able to get straight back on to the balcony through the special door. It’s still an amazing Suite though.

We had it after we left Olden in July last year. Unfortunately they had to move us inside as it started to rain. It maybe pretty chilly though, but as long as it’s dry and you something warm to put on, you should be fine. The food and service was fantastic. We are sailing to Norway again on 27th April, but are fortunately are staying on for the 14 night Med cruise that follows. We hope to schedule a Balcony Dinner on this leg, where it should be warmer.

That’s great that one of your party won a cruise. Did get $250 on our 2022 cruise, but nothing, not even an entry into the draw on our 2023 cruise. Guess we didn’t leave the Sky Suite enough when we were at sea!

Wow that look incredible. With our Sky Suite rapidly approaching in 2 weeks, this makes me very excited, but tinged with anxiety as there is now some doubt that we will be able to travel. You have made some incredible memories that you will treasure for ever.

We are back in a Sky Suite later this month on Sky Princess. We have been fortunate enough to have one on Enchanted and one on Sky over the last couple of years. We much prefer the layout of Enchanted as the 2nd bathroom is very large and luxurious, whilst on Sky it is tiny, same size as a regular balcony. Would rather have the two bigger bathrooms, than the walk-in wardrobes. We also missed the little sink in the bar area which we had on Enchanted. We had our call from Thor 4 weeks before our sail date. We are very excited about the whole experience once again. Unfortunately, we have to move to an S3 suite after 8 nights, as we are doing the following 14 night cruise. You get all the Suite perks, including the free laundry, plus all the extra Sky Suite benefits.

Shocked at the price you pay. At my local, it is £50 ($60) for a one hour massage. And this why we never book spa treatments any more on cruise ships. We find their prices outrageous enough without adding an additional 18%. Feel quite sorry for the staff in the spa on the UK sailings, they are always standing around not working.

Would love to know if the Orange Juice is freshly squeezed in the Signature Restaurant at breakfast on Sun. On Sky and Enchanted it was delicious in the Suite breakfast in Sabatini’s.

You are probably right Hank, but our risking it for a B2B cruise in Europe next Spring, where the airfare risk won’t be as high for us living in the UK.

Does anybody else think it is a bit strange that Princess are charging the same price for the Owners Suites as the Sky Suites on most of their sailings on the new Sun Princess for this year and next. The Owners Suite has only one bedroom, is about half the size and does not come with the same Enhanced perks as the Sky Suites. On very few of their cruises, they are selling the Owners Suites at the price point that they should be at.

Well you were all right, Explora were only prepared to give us our deposit back which they have had for 6 months. Have cautiously rebooked with them for a back to back Med cruise for April / May 2025. Wasn't prepared to take the risk of booking a cruise with them where a long haul flight was needed. Needless to say we will be regularly checking that our new cruises are still being listed!

Having A nightmare with the Explora website. I was looking at a cruise for 2025 so did a mock booking on their website and it is now showing as an option and I can’t get rid of it. I haven’t confirmed it, but can’t seem to remove it. Anybody know how I could delete this cruise. If I do book I want to do it through a travel agent, not direct with Explora.

We are in the UK and our TA did not know about the change / cancellation. They contacted Explora today who said they had emailed them, which was never received. All very strange. Explora are supposed to be getting back to our Agent with some sort of resolution, but so far they haven’t. I’m just grateful that we discovered this before we had booked our flights and hotels etc.

We were just checking the dates of our Caribbean cruise booked on Explora II for March 25th as we would need to book our flights soon from the UK and our trip has totally disappeared from the Explora website. She is now sailing across the Atlantic at the time we were due to be on her. Have not been informed of this and are very disappointed. I’ll be calling my TA first thing in the morning to find out what is going on. Anybody else been affected by this?