DallasGuy75219

Princess' upgrade process is outsourced to a third party (Plusgrade). You're getting scripted, unhelpful answers because no one at Princess has direct control of or visibility to your upgrade bids, or direct control of the upgrade process on any sailing. The bidding/upgrade process is to set up to be entirely online and automated, so it's not surprising when Princess employees tell you there's nothing they can do, because the process isn't meant to be manually manipulated or subject to Princess employees trying to figure out why you didn't get an upgrade but someone else did.

It's just not worth the extra expense and possibly longer processing time and scrutiny considering how few were scheduled even when they were allowed. The cruise lines pretty much only scheduled them when had a 2-3 open days before or after a repositioning or for example if a hurricane cut a scheduled cruise short.

It doesn't help that Princess' website still shows La Patisserie as a foodservice option on Island.

No different than toiletries or OTC meds or feminine products in a cruise shift gift shop.

Southwest doesn't serve DFW (yet). If other airlines were taking off, your flight was likely cancelled because the weather delay caused to crew to no longer be legal to take off.

Exactly. They've cut down on the number of events and giveaways on premier cruises while increasing the number of premier guests they'll book. I'd much rather take a free interior with DOU Everywhere and several hundred dollars in freeplay on the same sailing vs. a free balcony and DOU in the casino only on a premier cruise, and that's exactly what I've been doing on my future bookings. I'm trying Ultra to see if that's worth the opportunity cost of giving up better perks on other offers.

Some of these exclusions are ridiculously conservative. At least a quarter of Carnival passengers (myself included) are probably diabetic, based on what you see at the buffet. Some people's diabetes is controlled with medicine, and not every diabetic has peripheral neuropathy or limbs rotting off. It certainly doesn't stop me from getting massages at home.

They're now officially prohibited from the US with the kind of visa that most mass market line crew possess.

If it was in the casino, it was probably put their primarily for people gambling in the casino. Not that only gamblers could eat it, but probably not intended to be the "replacement" for IC. See below... Same on Island last year. I didn't look closely, but saw soneone replacing the food in there while I was getting a drink at Good Spirits. It looked to be primarily pre-made sandwiches.

Not endlessly, but Carnival doesn't consistently charge holds as you run up your S&S balance. So someone not good with money could easily overdraw their bank account before Carnival charges the hold that will be declined by the issuer and in turn have their S&S cut off.

United's policy is they'll let you change to another flight without charge if you have a schedule change more than 30 minutes. I would strongly suggest changing to the next flight rather than taking a chance on the moon and stars aligning to make a 10:20 flight.

That was my experience on whatever my last Dream class ship was, in the casino annex.

That's what I thought.

1. No. $60 for the Princess Plus package includes gratuities on the drink package plus the standard gratuities to the crew. If you buy the standalone Plus drink package, you do pay gratuity on that. 2 and 4. Same price on board, although Princess claims the quantity of Princess Plus packages for sale is limited and they may run out. 3. Not sure, but it does show like an addition to the cruise fare on your invoice. So it you're in the penalty period for cancelation, I can see how it might be nonrefundable.

This is the exception to the rule, at least in ports with separate debarkation lines for passports and birth certificates.