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lstone19

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    Princess
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    Baltic

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  1. You mentioned a cruisetour which has both a cruise and a tour component. The answer above is correct for the cruise part. For the tour part, most tours do not include meals although the last I knew a meal package is included. Some of the Princess upper-end tours (the name they use for them escapes me at the moment) do include meals. MDR = Main Dining Room (on most ships, there are multiple main dining rooms but they all serve the same menu - think of them as different sections of the same dining room).
  2. Correct. "Magic To Do" has its origin as a title as the opening song of Pippin (music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz, original Broadway production directed by Bob Fosse) and IMO, is more a reference to the magic of live theater as a story comes alive right in front of you (Pippin is a show within a show - the song Magic to Do breaks the fourth wall and has the cast singing to the audience welcoming them to the show). Read the lyrics of the song and it will make a lot more sense.
  3. As said above, Ed Perrin is not a current Princess captain. We had him as captain on Regal Princess in 2016 but he left Princess for Virgin sometime after that.
  4. Most have been for a couple of months. Nothing ominous here.
  5. My experience is unlike other lines, Princess always changes to match local time. And on some itineraries, it means lots of changes. On a 19-night Pacific partial Panama Canal cruse in 2019, after leaving Los Angeles (GMT-7/Pacific Daylight), we went forward two hours to GMT-5/Central Daylight for two Mexican ports, then back an hour to GMT-6 for Guatemala, then ahead an hour to GMT-5 for Panama (even though no port call), back to GMT-6 for Costa Rica and Nicaragua, forward to GMT-5 for another Mexian port, and finally back to hours to GMT-7 for the return to Los Angeles.
  6. I cancelled the two I had booked which given how far out I am from the cruise should trigger refunds. I then tried using Chat on the website to ask why I wasn't seeing my dining credits. The chat agent tried booking them and encountered the same problem. He opened a ticket but I doubt anything will happen. Given memoak's comment above, if needed, we'll try booking on board.
  7. We are on Sun Princess in late April, paid in full of course. I went to book our two included specialty dinings and was charged for them. Even less confidence inspiring is that there is absolutely nothing to show we paid for them except it being in my credit card's transaction history. No receipt from Princess nor does anything in the Personalizer or Medallion App show that we made these payments. I'm not going to be surprised if when we get on board and we try to get it fixed (do I see the host at one of the specialty restaurants? Or Passenger Services?) that they tell us those are our two included meals and they have no record of us paying.
  8. So with Premier, $5 for the soft ice cream but unlimited premium desserts. I guess I’ll order a premium dessert, eat one cone’s worth of the soft ice cream, and throw the rest away.
  9. So do we and the same thing. But in the Dine My Way thread, someone said last year (but before the new app came out) that it goes so far as to authorize the charge but never finalizes it. I booked out two specialty dining reservations and it did do the charge authorization. I'll keep an eye on it and if it does actually charge us, deal with it on the ship.
  10. Dining reservations have opened for more cruises. We're on Sun Princess starting Apr 27 and I was just able to reserve.
  11. No disagreement about the difference post-cancellation. But my point is that a cancellation can occur at the last minute when five minutes earlier, all looked good. And it doesn’t mean the carrier, be it a cruise line or an airline, was being dishonest in saying all was well up until that moment.
  12. Of course, some times things really do happen at the last minute even resulting in day of departure cancellations (e.g. Norway boiler explosion). Having worked for an airline, I’ve seen flights cancelled when I was already in the gate area waiting to board. Or in one case, we were on a plane that diverted with a problem (and for the someone who made a comment earlier, yes it was a Boeing airplane and it was the plane’s first revenue flight but the problem was not a Boeing area of responsibility. And FWIW, I’ve also what should have been an Airbus first revenue flight but that one never made it away from the gate due to a problem. So my best luck has twice been with non-revenue flights before the plane’s first revenue flight). We were then given a replacement plane that had been close to starting to board for another flight. You could almost feel the dagger stares as we walked off our original plane over to the adjacent gate and on to that plane with the board at the gate still showing that plane’s original flight with Cancelled underneath and all its passengers still there.
  13. As far as I know, that's true for all but what the first two or three cruises. We board Apr 27 and cannot make dining reservations yet.
  14. Probably a little less. I make it a little under 1,000 nautical miles from Monfalcone to Civitavecchia. At 20 knots (I expect the ship can do a little better - most cruise ships seem to have a top speed of 21 to 22 knots), that's a little under 50 hours (2 days, 2 hours). Add a little time for undocking and docking. So long as it sails by 4:00a on the 26th, it can be in Rome by 6:00am on the 28th.
  15. Story time: Not cruise ships but transportation none the less. Let's turn the clock back to March 1989. Earlier I mentioned I was retired from an airline but my airline employment was still over a year away. I was arriving SFO on an international flight and we pulled into a gate next to a Singapore Airlines plane. It looked like a 747-300 except it had winglets. What is that? Well, it was a 747-400 but I hadn't seen one before as the first had gone into service a little over a month earlier. Some digging turned up it had just arrived from Seattle (delivery from Boeing) and was going into service that night at SFO. Compare that to my carrier. I went to a delivery once to see the figurative handing over of the keys. We then flew on the plane back to one of our hub airports where the plane went into maintenance for a week or so so that things could be fully checked out as well as some additional interior upgrades done. In other words, some slack in the schedule between planned delivery and putting it in the schedule. So Princess is like Singapore Airlines was - put it in service as soon as you can while my carrier was like Royal Caribbean with some slack in the schedule despite how expensive an asset it is.
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