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So much better than the current Flowers Chardonnay.

Greg LaFollette also helped launch that brand (Hartford Court). Great stuff for the price.

That is true today. But when Greg was making the wine, it was top notch. Back then, when it developed its reputation, it was a small production boutique winery. For example, the 1997 Porter Bass Chardonnay had a production level of 180 cases. By contrast, the 2021 Sonoma Coast bottling now surpasses 20,000 cases. Nothing is the same except the name. The current owners are trying to succeed off of the name instead of the product.

Flowers took a nose dive when Greg LaFollette left, and what was left of the brand suffered even more once Joan and Walt Flowers sold the brand to Huneeus. But despite all that tail-spinning, it is still probably the best Chardonnay on board. Not saying much.

Wish I could give you some (or one) but I have my reputation to consider!

Never had any issue and I've a cabin that connects next door at least 3 times. The area of connection is actually the width of two doors, yours and theirs, stacked together. This should provide at least as much protection as a wall.

As an example, here is a promo image for one sold on amazon.

No. Certain manufacturers make them for adults. Sadly, there are adults with cognitive issues that cause them to wander, so equipping them with Air Tags is as useful for them as it is for children. Just do a search that includes the word “adult” and you should find what you need.

All I can tell you is what the app is showing for my booking options on Sun Princess. The fee for each venue is $45 and a gratuity is automatically added on top of that if you book. I was surprised to see Sabatini’s priced the same as Crown Grill. On all other ships there is a price difference between the two.

That is exclusive of tip. 18% would be added to that amount if you are paying out of pocket.

The App shows for Sun Princess that ALL of the Specialty Dining locations are $45. Butcher's Block by Dario Kai Sushi Crown Grill Sabatini's Umai Teppanyaki Umai Hot Pot The Catch By Rudi And Spellbound will be $149.

Yes. And I'm currently working on a quarterly earnings "talking notes" cheat sheet for the CEO right now for his investor call later this week. "Let's deceive the public, our investors and our potential investors" never seems to make it into the notes.

But that's the point. Santorini was cancelled because there was an issue with the island, not with the ship. If there was/is an operational issue at Kotor, that is the port's doing--not Princess'. There is no way...NONE...that Princess built out a 5 month schedule with 6 stops in Kotor, knowing in advance that the ship could not make the trip in. And even if such a colossal, fireable error was made, as soon as they figured it out, they would have cancelled and rearranged all of the other 5 scheduled trips. I know that it is fun and fashionable here to attribute absolute "monkeys banging on a keyboard" ignorance and incompetence to Princess Cruise Lines, but let's get serious. Picture the Zoom call where the chief engineer, (or whomever) tells the CEO that despite best efforts, it will be impossible to ever call on Kotor. @cr2000 wants us to believe that the reaction on that call was: "OK. But let's not tell anyone about this and continue to cancel Kotor at the last minute to protect bookings in hopes that no one figures this out." When in reality, we all KNOW that the reaction would have been: "OK. Let's figure out another solution. Work the phones and find another suitable Adriatic port stop and have our public relations team work up an appropriate press release heralding the benefits of the new port(s) that we will be using instead." Sometimes I really question whether people here really understand how a multi-billion dollar publicly traded company operates.

Ships used to use one and a half dining rooms for TD. Now it is down to one. While I agree that empty tables will be filled with walk-ins as needed, I don't think that there are going to be many empty tables.

Dial it back folks. The ship skipped the port one time. Do you really think that Princess laid out an entire schedule for the Spring and Summer KNOWING that it was NEVER going to be able to sail into Kotor? That is an absurd conclusion to jump to. Why on earth would they do that. Try to posit one logical argument why they would put themselves in that situation. Occam’s Razor applies here. Sailing conditions simply didn’t favor making the trip in. Princess ships miss Roatan all the time and no one is ready to leap to conspiracy theories. Ships just as big as Sun Princess make it in. And relatively speaking, the Sphere Class ships are bigger than the Royal Class ships, but not so much bigger as to make going to Kotor impossible.