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What times were the evening shows in the Princess Theater? What Production shows were there? Thanks

I assume you meant "did not blame"

Of course. Thoroughly understandable. A giant disappointment if it was one's first scheduled visit to Alaska of if one had been there before. But when life hands you lemons, you need to make the best lemonade you can. Obviously when the incident occurred everyone booked on the cruise was either already in the San Francisco area or on the way there. It is not like it happened enough before the cruise that passengers could have made other plans. Nobody who stayed on the ship received the cruise they had wanted, but they did get the best cruise alternative possible including a rebate of 3/4 of the cruise fare along with the FCC for a future cruise. When the Sky Princess recently had to cancel 4 of the 4 scheduled ports and had a new port added on a cruise to Iceland due to weather and a medical evacuation, they did not receive any cash back for the disappointment of not getting the cruise they paid for. (They did get an FCC for 20% of the cruise fare, something Princess did not have to do.) To quote deltaqueenie: "We are missing Reykjavik, Grundarfjordur, and Aukureyri…and the captain continues to change our itinerary…I do understand that weather can affect a cruise, but this has been a HUGE disappointment."

Wasn't that in reference to passengers who chose not to stay and may have incurred additional expenses in returning home beyond what Princess said they would cover?

On the other hand we were on a recent cruise where the distance between ports was so small that the ship went out of the direct path and went extra distance so it could go at least 12 knots to maintain stability.

2 cruises a year was referring to passengers who boarded in San Francisco and decided to leave the ship before it goes anywhere.

Based on the news report with an above link, repairs will take another 24 hours from now. So being able to depart Sunday is only an estimate which may or may not come to be.

So the question remains: Why are they waiting until Sunday to depart? Unable to make any other scheduled Alaska port if they left today?

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Heathrow area hotels use a shared shuttle service which has a charge.

Heathrow area hotels use a shared shuttle service which has a charge.

If you have booked RT transfers, they are for the day of embarkation and the day of disembarkation unless you have also booked Princess hotel reservations. If you want to stay in Southampton pre-cruise, then cancel the arrival transfer and make other plans to get to Southampton. If you want to keep your pre-cruise transfer, then book a hotel near the airport and return to the airport on embarkation day morning to take the Princess transfer. Post cruise Princess can transfer you to either the airport itself and then it is up to you to get to an airport area hotel or to downtown London at a bus station from which you could find you own way to a London hotel.

Slice is only open for a set number of hours each day while room service is open 24 hours.

My Australia based cruise disappeared with the pandemic, so I did not get the chance to do this.

A good TA who shares the group discount will apply it without being asked, As far as I know, a TA may include any category if cabins when they set up a "group".

Had make this post before I saw that post and it was too late to correct it.

You can book a specific cabin using the group rate a TA has. They reserve a class of cabins,but book the specific ones their clients want from that class allocation. Even if you made a direct booking on day 1, you can transfer that booking to a TA and get their group rate discount.

When an agency makes a booking, they get amenity points based on several factors. The agency can use these points to gift OBC, wine, or something else to the customer. Or the agency can use these points to gift themselves more commission.

And some agencies share that discount with the customer and some just keep it to increase their profits.

or 4 people getting $150 each

In addition to what others answered, some airlines will not allow you to reserve seats or buy an upgrade unless you have been ticketed. That is why many people want to get ticketed early. If ticketing requires payment of the airfare, the airfare is no longer flexible and if you cancel you are subject to airline cancellation policies.

Of the person who purchased the Internet package.