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Yes, I used gift cards for EZAir for a cruise in Australia in Jan/Feb. I booked through a travel agent and she applied the cards and didn't have any problems.

Yes, just left it out. I did purchase some FCDs and used them to book our next cruise with our travel agent 🙂.

We were just on the Coral Princess and the prices at the Future Cruise office were just the online prices. Since there was no benefit I chose to work through my travel agent instead of transferring a booking to her.

I live in the US and currently on an Australian cruise. I paid for the cruise with Princess gift cards. Are there different gift card rules for people who live in Australia?

We boarded in Brisbane and they didn't have green or blue lanes. The app and boarding pass said we were green lane so the 6/7 complete status didn't seem to affect the green lane designation.

We boarded on January 25th. I had deleted the shoreside payment information after I ordered our Medallions (was 6/7 check-in complete.) I didn't have any problem boarding, no questions about it at all.

We got our 11 days before our cruise sail date.

Yes, there is a QR code. Here's a screenshot of what it looked like. It has deck and cabin number at the bottom.

My experience with the new app - I have both the old and new app. I checked in on the new app and removed my credit card from the onshore purchases section. When I ordered Medallions, I didn't get a shipping option at all. I was showing as 6/7 complete with my husband as 7/7. Following the advice of a previous poster, I added my credit card to the onshore purchases section and then cancelled my previous Medallion order. I placed a new order and the shipping option was offered for free (we have the Plus package.) Both of us showed 7/7 complete at this time. I went back and deleted my card from the onshore purchases. Went back to 6/7 complete for me. Old app showed both of us in green lane. We are 11 days from boarding and the Boarding Pass tab showed up on the home screen of the new app. today. We also got our Medallions in the mail today. We are both showing as green lane in the new app even though I am only 6/7 complete. We're ready to go!

For those of you interested in the Northern Lights, I wanted to support the idea that many of the newer cell phones are a good way to get photos and make great memories. Having a good camera is the best but as you can see by this picture the Samsung S22 works well too! Photo from August 2023 in Steilacoom, WA.

I've had some success asking Princess staff to get me seats when some of the airlines wouldn't let me do it directly.

We're taking a family cruise in July and have some children in cabins with adults that aren't their parents (to get best pricing on all cabins.) Given this cruise is in July, I'm concerned that there won't be room in the Discovery Kids Club if we wait to register until we are onboard. The pre-registration form requires the parent or legal guardian to be in the same cabin (it's done through the cruise check-in process.) Does anyone have experience with 1) Whether the kids clubs actually reach capacity on cruises with lots of children? 2) How to pre-register the kids with the paper form before getting on the ship? Thank you!

Yes, I did. I was just laughing that they hadn't updated that part yet!

I just went in and bought the gift cards from AARP as I do every month. It was only 8% off so I was surprised to see that the e-mails said I'd bought them for $450, the old price!

We are just off the Queen Elizabeth and the only dance hosts were the two professional dancers. The floor was always very crowded (recorded, duo and band) and not a very good dance experience.