Astro Flyer

Greatly appreciate sharing your experiences…with about 90% of our cruises on Princess we’re still learning more about O & we greatly enjoy their cruising experience. Wish they’d reinstate Standard fares which for our style of cruising works best. We use everything in the Standard fares however we do not use the SM options & thus we’re not sure if after our November cruise we’ll book another O cruise.

That might be the reason…mine isn’t until March 2025 when we’re eagerly anticipating our cruise around Australia. 😃

All of mine are still there & have not read about anyone’s MDR reservations being canceled yet.

Thanks…appreciate sharing your experiences.

We booked a standard fare before Simply More began & when searching for excursions it shows there’s a “Simply More Shore Excursion Package” with a 25% discount when purchasing a minimum of 5 excursions. When checking excursions it shows the full price & also the SMSEP discounted price. We have a combined $800 of SBC that can be used for any type of payments but don’t know if we are eligible for the 25% discount because it’s called Simply More. This is only our 2nd O cruise & on our CA Coastal first cruise we didn’t book any excursions so this is a new experience for us. If anyone has any insights to share would greatly appreciate any of them. 🙂

YIKES!!! 😳😱

Good idea…thankfully we didn’t have that light to deal with on Discovery.

Here are a few photos of our Catch dinner on Discovery…yum!!! 😋 We were surprised to get a glass of bubbly with a slice of strawberry when seated. 🥂

And soon you’ll be in our HST…3 hours behind PDT ⏰ Will Majestic be in any Hawaiian ports?

‘bellebaby’…you’re correct: swap between Sabatini’s & Catch were scheduled on 4/22 based on what restaurant staff said; the date of the change from Salty Dog to O’Malley’s Irish Pub was unknown to me. Based on recent posts from Discovery the change from SDG to OIP is in progress & will also use the underutilized Gelato’s location. On the current Live from Majestic that change was thought to be happening during the ship’s Spring 2025 shipyard maintenance in Palermo, Sicily. Hopefully @LACruiser88 can confirm Majestic’s planned future changes while on his transpacific cruise.

Kona is also great for scuba diving…few sandy beaches & lots of old lava flows that ended at the ocean resulting in great clarity. If I was there overnight would do the nighttime Manta Ray dive again…my most amazing underwater experience ever. 😃

Maybe they’ll blame the delay on the total solar eclipse affecting their folio accounting system. 😉 I don’t recall if they were still providing the cards in cabin for gifts, etc on our previous Discovery cruise in Spring 2022 or not. As I recall they said that by not providing a final folio it was a way to conserve resources. However with the number of passengers (including my son & DIL in February on Discovery…their first PCL cruise) reporting incorrect last minute charges by not providing a checkout folio that results in Princess receiving more income due to improper charges.

No emailed folio for us either & no charge yet for our small amount due. As I recall on disembarkation morning could not view our folio on their app but do have a printed copy from the last evening which is accurate. However until receiving the final folio or seeing a charge on our c/c won’t know about the accuracy of our final bill.

Sad…too many longtime local businesses have closed. 😢

You might want to check your Military Credit to see if it still shows as refundable. For my just completed cruise booked 20 months in advance which included MOBC it was now non-refundable. Within the past year Princess changed MOBC to non-refundable even though it originally showed as refundable. That policy change didn’t bother me because I am very thankful to Princess for providing this way of thanks to military & veterans that is combinable with other types of complimentary OBCs…the best industrywide way to say thanks that I am aware about.