Nelsj099

Yes it does count as 2 cruises with 2 bookings.

I book as 2 separate and have done it a few times. I buy Premier so that restarts on each reservation, 3 prints and 2 speciality dinners reset after the first 7 days. So you double those benefits. I book with casino comps so I have to pay 2 deposits. I don't know about shareholder perks.

It is fun, I was looking at booking it again. But, the price is higher this summer than last summer. I am not ready to spend 200$ for 60 seconds either. I got the T-shirt.

There were a few people on my cruise last January who went over the packaged 15 and they just had to pay for their following drinks. No one seemed to care, they were drinking beer in the casino they kept getting drinks.

I have used mine for the past 3 cruises in the casino.

Last summer I did the Crown to Alaska, causing the narrows was beautiful. I am on a Casino fare, and the difference was more than 6000$ to take Royal. So I booked a balcony on Royal, I am concerned about the size of the ship, but I know it will be Amazing either way. 6000$ will buy a lot of excursions.

This is part of why I booked the Voyage of the Glaciers 14 nights as 2 bookings of 7 days each. I figured this scheme last year when they were shocked that I got more free prints in the photo studio. I was like it is a different booking so I get a new round of benefits. I also get 4 cruises on my status (sailing solo) instead of 2. It was more deposit money... as a casino comp that went up by 200$ but I get that back as OBC when I board. All in all a good deal. But, it should be fixed by Princess.

I would say Grand for the windows in the casino. I loved sitting there and being able to see outside. I felt like the Crown was in a dungeon, and the Island well it was small.

It wasn’t only me. I was with 2 other peashooter had slept and they felt the same. The person on the other side of me spent the whole time yawning. And probably 15/20 people stood up and left in the middle. If you have done 10 minutes of research on Alaska none of the information was new.

I did not.

Today was a good day. I spent the rest of the morning sitting in the aft deck by the terrace pool in the sun. We saw some porpoises. I went to the lecture on wildlife and almost fell asleep. We also saw a whale. I then went to the casino… and donated some money to princess… I have 1400ish points now. I played a few hours on the tables and a few on the slots. We also did a group pull. I went to dinner at the crown grill! It was delectable. I did miss the whales bubble feeding. I hope I can see them another time. I am still on the lookout for an orca and a breaching whale it may take for the rest of my life. But I will keep looking. 😂 When I was changing into my dressy jeans for dinner, we got an announcement that our port stop in Sitka will be delayed due to yesterday’s multiple delays. I was able to contact my tour provider while at dinner and he can reschedule me for next time on Father’s Day. Sorry dad I’m going kayaking.

I got it from room service.

I can’t flip them on my phone. When they uploaded like that, I went in edited them on my phone made them upside down on my phone and reuploaded them. And they were still upside down. And I gave up. I don’t have a computer this summer so it is what it is. 😝

Did a quick photo walk to get some steps in before everyone wakes up.

Good Morning from Day 2 and a slightly behind schedule Crown Princess cruise. I am on the crown for 20 more days and am happy to call the Caribe Aft home for the next few weeks. To get here I flew to Seattle via Emirates (the long way) from Hong Kong. Which is my home airport for where I live in China as a teacher. Wooohoo happy summer break with open borders! I took the train up from Seattle to Vancouver and stayed at the Cambie Hostel. This made for a short 39 hour long June 1st. People talk about boarding in Vancouver. It was fine. I dropped my 2 way to heavy bags off at 11:16 and was in my room by 12:30. There were some lines and people struggling with the US customs kiosks. But immigration was fast. (Remember what I said earlier about living in China this may be relative to my own life.) Once on board I came to my room unpacked and watched my safety video, unpacked my carry on and filled in some information needed about my weight for balancing a helicopter to fly to the glaciers in Juneau. I went to check in to muster station E, drop my paper off to shore ex staff and headed to Botticelli for some lunch. I had the salmon no starters no dessert (remember I’m here for 21 days). After wandering about, a really sugary Ultimate Cooler and some G&Ts I watched the sail away show for a bit before heading to my sail away party for 1 in my cabin with guacamole and chips. I had to shoo away massive seagulls but enjoyed my snack. But we still weren’t moving. As we finally pulled away from the dock, and I was done with guac, I headed up to the Terrace pool to meet some people from our Facebook group. Sail away was lovely with about a 5:30 pm departure. Only to make it just under the bridge before the captain came on to say, we had to stop for a medical emergency which took about 2 hours sitting waiting for the coast guard and then medical team to return from escorting the passenger off the ship. I hope he is doing well. We finally picked up the anchor and we’re back off to Alaska? I stopped in the buffet (which is small) for a light dinner. I had the mushroom chicken a few bites of potatoes and some stir-fried veggies. The casino wasn’t open so I was going to my room to “wait”. When I fell asleep sitting up with all the lights on only to wake up around 2:40 this morning. Guess I missed it. 2:40am is 6:40pm my standard China Saturday afternoon nap just ended, oops hope that I can beat jet lag to day then. Hope for the best no naps. 😂🤦‍♀️ Now we are sailing through Northern BC in the narrows near Bloedel now. The coast is just meters (oops yards) off the side of the ship. Not that you could touch it but It’s narrow. Alaska here we come. We did have to do one little turn around to come in I don’t know why but we made a hard turn and about face before we came in the second time we approached. Right now the pink sky is peeking from behind the mountains. So I am going to order a coffee and keep watching!