Ardennais

Well this is what’s open on Enchanted Princess today.

The buffet can be very relaxing and to be honest, we’re far more sociable there as we always have a table for 2 in the MDR.

We’re the same! Nothing wrong with the buffet.

And then we left …. and now we have this hassle.

MDR on Enchanted Princess was open for lunch on the first sea day - Saturday - but not since then. I’m sitting on the balcony now with my room service coffee and croissants. I will miss my early morning coffee on Iona later in the year. mrs Goggins - is breakfast room service including coffee available on Ventura now?

I don’t want to knock P&O either - our next cruise is Iona later in the year. But have to say, on our 3rd night on Enchanted Princess, that she’s a lovely modern ship. It’s now 23.30 and the Piazza is full, the band is singing and there’s a great atmosphere. Every meal has been good in the MDR and buffet - tasty veg, good meat. The bar staff are full of good humour and I think most people have the drink package! One annoying thing is that we’re docking 5 miles from Copenhagen tomorrow and the shuttle is $19 each. Glad it’s just the two of us!

I haven’t seen any issues yet aboard Enchanted Princess apart from the app which seems to freeze at regular intervals!

Ai Cymro wyt ti?!

I wonder where they’ll make their money on this sailing. We went for the Princess Plus fare which includes drinks, Wifi and Grats. Still a cheap cruise even allowing for that. Bought a bar of soap for $3 and a cap for $12 - my husband when packing could only find a cap with Russia on it so needed a new one! I struggle to see what else will be on our account as we’re not doing any excursions!

To make dinner reservations, view and book shore excursions, view drink menus I suppose. No paper copies and therefore no drop off boxes for booking shorex.

One thing that’s very very evident is that everyone seems to be looking at their phone due to the app. And we’re not talking about youngsters but middle aged and older!

As you can tell from the photo, it’s not P&O! We boarded Enchanted Princess yesterday after a stressful few days! Set up Medallion App about 5 weeks ago and uploaded our Covid passes. Ordered the Medallion which was ready for us at Ocean terminal. The Covid passes were still pending approval when we boarded! Did a Prenetics supervised test on Zoom on Wednesday - after registering and setting up our profiles three weeks ago. I also uploaded our certificates which arrived within the hour and they were also pending approval yesterday. Same for everyone! They still wanted too see copies yesterday. The app doesn’t work everywhere - it keeps logging out and there were queues waiting for help last night. There are QR codes on tables for the drink menus but they don’t work anywhere and paper copies are few and far between. Small niggles but we know by now what mocktails they have - a first timer wouldn’t know. Enchanted Princess can take 3600 passengers. The cruise director last night announced that there are 2600 onboard - 69% full. 1200 are first time Princess cruisers and there are 250 Elite passengers. 48 nations are represented. Service is good thus far and the atrium area by the International Cafe on deck 5 us lovely and spacious. Turn down last night and fresh towels provided. Lovely airy ship, very very clean. About 5 weeks ago on the app I had booked 7.20 dinner, Capri restaurant for the 7 nights. When we got there last night I was told that it was still first come first serve but that I could try the other door! The second lady I spoke to was far more efficient and led us in straight away! We spoke to some other passengers later on and they were all totally confused with the system! We’ll see tonight what happens! That’s all for now. I know this is the P&O board but I don’t mind answering some questions if that’s ok!

We’re on the sea again after a 26 month break!