WisCruiser2

Good point.

And if your airline participates in the Easy Check (I think that's what it's called), and most do, it's totally worth the $25/bag charge! You set your bags outside your room the night before, as usual, but you don't see them again until you get to your home airport. You can walk off the ship when you want and go straight through Immigration and out the door.

Also, if you haven't done it before, a whale watch trip with Harv & Marv's is well-worth it!

All OBC is combined in your folio, as far as I know. The gratuity is subtracted each day unless you no longer have a balance, then it is added to the charge at the end of the cruise.

Yes, the end of the Tarr Inlet, I believe.

If I remember correctly from our two Alaska trips (2002 & 2018), the Grand Pacific glacier is to the right as you are facing Margerie, basically the end of the Bay. This photo is from 2018.

We cancelled a cruise scheduled for last October as DH had a cardiac procedure (ablation) scheduled for 2 weeks after we returned and the hospital policy was 3 weeks of no symptoms or positive test. We didn't want to risk it being postponed. We did go on a 20-day cruise in February and were among the few wearing masks inside the ship. Avoided Covid until the end of the cruise, which I feel we may have gotten from the dining room...luck of the draw, I guess.

So, typical Princess misinformation...

@MacMadame it may have been 90 days in the past but at least for the past year it's been 60 days.

1) Yes - the form has a line for New Agency Name and New Travel Advisor's Name (if applicable). You need to contact your TA (or agency) and have them send you the request form, all their information will be already included. 2) If you find a fare drop or better deal, your agency can either apply it for you or re-book it. 3) I don't think it matters if your agency does not show the stateroom as available -- of course, if you already booked it with Princess, it wouldn't. 4) From the form: "Bookings may only be transferred within 60 days of booking creation so long as (a) the request is made outside the Final Pyment period, and (b) the booking is not paid in full." I don't anything regarding sales, maybe someone else has more info.

What is CC?

I'm guessing that maybe Princess holds those cabins for 3 or 4 person bookings, then releases what is left for 2 people? I know that when we booked on the Enchanted in October for this past February, Deluxe Balcony Guarantees (DF) were the only category left for balconies (had just wanted a regular balcony). We ended up in a quad room (with bed in the ceiling, didn't bother us a bit) on Dolphin deck, with the big balcony. I'm not sure, but if the only way to book a Deluxe is with Guarantee, they would have to give you a refundable deposit?

We used to get 3rd-party travel insurance but since Covid we've gone with Princess. One advantaage was that we had not paid for the insurance when we decided to cancel before final payment (just weren't quite ready to cruise yet) and another time after final payment (when we had paid the insurance) we had to cancel due to DH having a procedure scheduled just after we were to get back. While it didn't fit under the Medical reason for refund, we did get FCC for what we paid instead of losing several thousand dollars.

In October 2013 we spent the weekend in Bar Harbor while visiting our daughter in Boston. There were 3 or 4 cruise ships there on Saturday - we commented on how it felt to be on the other side of a port stop!