stevec999

Star link has satellites in polar orbit so it should not be and issue.

Lots of good info here. My wife ran out of things to spend money on and booked a cabana for our 35 day cruise in February 2025. Sounds like it is a good choice for us.

I am currently on the ship sitting in San Diego. From here we go to Ensenada then back to LA.

If you really want to see Alaska do a tour/cruise. You will see so much more. It is worth it just to go do Denali NP. We did it on Celebrity before the shutdown. The land tour part was well done. Very nice bus to haul you around and the hotels were nice. We flew into Fairbanks. We went a couple days early to look, around on out own. From Fairbanks we took a train with awesome observation cars to Denali. It was a beautiful ride. Denali train ride The land tours are very busy. Up early on a bus to your next stop. On the bus to the hotel for the evening. Repeat for how many land days you book. You will be tired by the end but it is worth it. Best advise , start with the land tour. When you head to the ship you will have a sea day to rest and relax.

Can't answer your questions but we have it booked for 2025. 🙂

We book the non refundable. The deposit really doesn't have any impact on how often we book. We saved enough over the years that if we have to cancel the loss is way less than total savings. For 7 day cruises the deposit is not that much. We have a 35 day (not Celebrity) booked and that was $1350 a person deposit I think. Losing that would be annoying but not the end of the world.

We were also on this cruise. Our first Princess. I have been cruising for 30 years and have never experienced the mess that was this cruise. We had all the issues that have been mentioned plus many more. I won't bother going into them beause the apologists will just refute them. This was our 7th cruise since the restart and we didn't experience anything like this. We were on the Carnival Panorama last fall and had a far better experience. Our other recent cruises have all been on Celebrity. Will we go on Princess again? We have not ruled it out but it will have to be a unique itinerary or a real deal. We had a good time and enjoyed Hawaii.

We just got off our first Princess and it was the worse cruise in 30 years. Service was lack luster to just bad. Food was disappointing. Our last Celebrity was much better but still not up to the past cruises.

We are on the cruise with you but this has not been our experience at all. Dinning room has been awful. No mater when our reservations a table has not been available. Seated at tables that are not set. 15 to 20 minutes before orders are taken. Long waits between courses. Food has varied, some good and some bad. Our shortest dinner took 2.5 hours. We finally gave up on the dinning room.

The air in our cabin was out too, seems to be working now. We were in line 2.5 hours to get on the ship. ☹️

The first week of October she was anchored at Puerto Vallarta. We were down there on the Celecrity Solstice. We are supposed to be on the Diamond in January.

Wife and I both e joy them.