VibeGuy

Once again, a bug with B2B sailings, this time related to Ocean Medallion order. The documents flow is correct and the booking numbers/dates are correct. Go into the Medallion order flow, the date of the first sailing is shown. Make the appropriate selections, go to choose a shipping method. Ship to home is greyed out and marked “not available”. Call support. They ask me to finalize the order and they’ll cancel it and we can try again. We do so. Same issue. We cancel again. On examination during the third try, we realize there’s a bug: the voyage displayed at the start of the Medallion order process is (correctly) the first date, but is (incorrectly) displaying the second booking number. Using the web interface, I can log in, but it forces the Link Booking flow immediately after, which reports that the booking number has already been claimed. A ticket has been opened. We’re sufficiently far out from departure that a week won’t matter, and the booking briefly blinked into Green Lane between the (malformed) order and its cancellation. B2B sailings are not a corner case. They represent clients who like the product well enough to order seconds before they’ve even got the first helping. This is our third set of B2Bs since the restart where something has required a support ticket prior to departure. It’s one thing to have endless trouble supporting the endless permutations and combinations of device hardware and OS and app versions, but this is still underlying data quality issues in the back end, which mystifies me.

Yes. If you’re just in it for the OBC, it pays to buy whichever one is cheapest - they represent the exact same asset.

If there is a particular cabin available for both sailings that isn’t showing in the 14NT availability, it is possible to get inventory management to turn it into a 14NT Cabin - I’d suggest using a travel agent or Princess PVP.

Yes, you can use OBC for spirits purchases.

This topic is covered to death. But searching is hard. 1) Yes. Leave the bags in your old cabin. Leave everything on hangers hanging and your steward will move them to the closet in the new cabin 2) The ship must be zeroed at every turnaround. If you don’t exit of your own volition, you’ll be gathered in a lounge to go off after all the disembarking passengers, the ship will be zeroed out for passengers, and you will return to the ship. 3) No. 4) Also no. 5) Yes. Your onboard spending account will roll over along with any leftover OBC. Your casino account will not. You need to cash it out on the last night of each sold segment.

No charge on Emerald, Ruby, Crown, Diamond, Sapphire (steam and sauna in lotus spa locker room), Island and Coral (dry sauna only, also in the lotus spa locker room) or Grand (both, but accessed from the open deck forward of the Lotus Spa Pool)

Yes, you can do this - and I have, in Vancouver. When you return to the ship, proceed directly to the cruise level (aka, one floor below ground level) and keep to the left of the main security line. There should be signage for transit passengers and crew - you’re a transit passenger at this point. If there’s any discussion, ask one of the Port employees. In *general*, they use the X-ray scanner to the far left and it dumps you out behind the US CBP desks, and then you proceed to the ship.

30 billion in debt for a company that spins out 3 billion a year in profit in a good year. Of course the markets are killing them. Their last debt offer priced at 10% interest. I would absolutely not own CCL or CUK if I didn’t sail frequently enough that the loss on the equity was immaterial. The OBC + a tax loss is fine. The tax loss alone? Not fine.

The magic words you need are “trip deviation”. The chat or first-line CSRs you talk to may not always be familiar with the process, but if they say no, ask to be escalated. It’s a real thing.

You may get an email from Princess with the following Subjects: ”To say thanks for cruising with us...” “Thanks again for sailing with us” “Welcome Home Deposit Offer” all of these have led to FCD with OBC offers valid for N days after returning from a sailing where we did not purchase an FCD. We have got these at both my and my DH’s email addresses for the six post-restart sailings.

Anyone want to hazard a guess as to which production shows will be on Royal at her restart?