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Do you know…does Raw on 5 serve any cooked food…like a Japanese stir fry with rice? We purchased the 3 night Specialty Dining Package so we may be eating at all 3 nights 😂 I love exquisite food! But mom loves a good hefty steak so may end up at Fine Cut too!

We are doing Alaska Inside Passage on Celebrity Edge in June…our first time in Alaska. We have excursions booked through Celebrity in Ketchikan, Juneau and Skagway. Was planning to stay on the ship in Endicott Arm and Victoria. If we don’t do an excursion, will be still have some amazing views of Endicott Arm and Dawes Glacier from the ship? Thanks if you can advise!

We tend to book them a lot too. I’m a big fan of specialty dining! If you get a chance to try Chef’s Table or 360X - they are both one of the best meals I have ever had. And I have had some meals in my life, lol. Enjoy!

Don’t forget to try Crown Grille and Sabatini’s…both reasonably priced and a nice, more upscale experience. We have always enjoyed our meals there!

I think you will love Enchanted 🙂. We sailed on her for 2 weeks in the Med last spring…it was perfect. Clean, beautiful ship with awesome, happy staff, very good MDR food (Not to die for excellent but still quite good), amazing production shows (5 Skies and Rock Opera), beautiful classical music in the jazz bar, really fun shows in Princess Live area, fun dance band in the piazza, hubby loved the buffet - food was fresh. The Enclave Thermal Suite, International Cafe, Chef’s Table and 360x Dining Experience were all stand outs for us. I hope you love it as much as we did!

Correction..heavenly thermal suite spa 🙂

I’m so sorry it was such a bad experience. Ugh. I have only been on 3 cruises so I am no expert but all 3 were on Princess. We did the Crown Princess as first cruise to the Med in 2018 and it was really great. Ship was a little older but elegant and we loved everything except the entertainment seemed a bit dull. We did Crown again in 2019 to the Caribbean - exact same suite and absolutely hated it. Food was horrible, ship was dirty and rusted…it didn’t even feel like the same ship. We sailed on Enchanted to the Med Spring 2023 and fell in love with Princess all over again. Newer ship, amazing food, heavenly mail suite spa, Chef’s Table, Incredible production shows and live music… entertainment was amazing…everything was perfect. So I think I learned to only sail on the newer ships with Princess. All that said, I am sailing on Celebrity Edge (first non Princess cruise!) in June in a sunset verandah cabin on deck 8 and am excited to see the differences.

Thank you so much for sharing your story! We do have priority embarkation with club class so we should be able to get onboard quickly and RUN to the Sanctuary and hope there are available loungers. There will be cruisers on board from the week before we get on so hoping we can get lucky! I mistakenly called the Chef’s Table the “Captain’s Table” so I apologize for the confusion. But I at least got to read your Captain story!!

I called it by the wrong name…it is the Chef’s Table experience…not the Captain’s Table. Thanks.

Thank you so much for the info!

Oh ok! yes…it’s the Chef’s Table! Thank you so much for the clarification! We are so new to cruising…I’m not even clear on what it is called, lol. Thank you!

Hello friends who have cruised on the Enchanted Princess! ! I apologize if this has been asked/answered before…we would like to book 2 full day loungers for the 3 sea days on the Enchanted 4/22-5/6 sailing to Italy, Turkey and Greek Isles. We would also like to reserve a seating for 2 at the Captain’s table for one night during our 14 day cruise. I am also intrigued by the new 360 Dining Experience as well! I think I understand that these experiences need to be booked once you are onboard? We have priority embarkation with our Club Class Mini Suite booking if that helps. Guide us as to the best way to secure these reservations. We are fairly new to cruising as we have only done 2 prior cruises…both with Princess on the Crown in 2018 and 2019 and both were in a Club Class Mini Suite but I am pretty sure we didn’t know what we were doing, lol. We kinda just showed up and loved it! I’m trying to plan a little ahead for this 3rd cruise! We did have a hard time finding loungers by the pool on sea days on prior cruises and have a ton of OBC for this cruise so thought it might be best to just reserve loungers for the day at The Sanctuary. I didn’t even know about the Captain’s Table back then but now I know and it sounds amazing! Would love to experience that and also the new 360 Dining Experience that is supposedly brand new to Enchanted! Can we just go to the main customer service desk (not sure what it’s called) once we are onboard to book these experiences? Or do we need to go straight to the Sanctuary itself to book the loungers and then perhaps go to the desk to ask to be put on the list for a Captain’s Table waitlist for a reservation and also the 360 Experience during our cruise? Thanks in advance if you can share any advice!

Thanks for the reply! So far - on the Cruise Health Tool - for Enchanted Princess, it only shows 2 voyages which are in March. So maybe they haven’t decided yet for April or haven’t posted yet? But we will keep checking!

Hello all! We are on Enchanted Princess for 14 days departing Rome, Italy on 4/22/2023. We are fully vaccinated and have each had 3 boosters (and might get another booster for the latest variant of Omicron before we leave the US on April 15th - undecided on that). We are going to be in Rome for 6 days (on our own - not through Princess) before the cruise departs. Does anyone know if we will have to have a Covid test before we board in Civitevecchia port? Or do we just self attest on the app at this point? If we do have to have a test, can it be a self test or does a medical facility in Rome have to administer the test? Thanks if anyone can protocol as it stands today. I know things can change before we leave in mid April!

Also…we have eaten at CG a few times on Crown Princess in 2018 and 2019. Really enjoyed our meals there! The food was great and the service/pace were lovely. We enjoy high end restaurants with generous portions at home and it was awesome to get to experience that while watching the sun set over the ocean as you cruise by the coast of Italy 🇮🇹 ❤️

I wonder…if you aren’t pleased with your steak…could you just tell your server and maybe receive a different cut? Do they let you do that if you are underwhelmed by your meal or it is overcoooked? I know you can change your mind in the MDR…not sure how it works at the speciality dining venues?

Hi there! I am happy that me sharing my misunderstanding of EZ Air might help you make a good decision regarding flights! Although I have only been on 2 cruises…I used to travel extensively for work so tend to just make my own arrangements. I don’t book tours through Princess…we really love small group tours with 1-3 other couples max so I use private tour companies. I usually find a hotel for us on my own. Most hotels or even VRBO’s will make arrangements to take you to the port. I know there is someone else from our sailing staying at Hotel Smeraldo…it looked nice! We are staying at Hotel Barocco over near Trevi Fountain/Spanish Steps. They have stated they will arrange transfer for us from the airport to the hotel and then from the hotel to the port. How does it work with the Princess hotel? How do you know which hotel they use and how to get transportation to the port?

Delta, not adults lol

I will definitely just book with adults from now on 🙂

So the story gets worse, lol. I had on these cute Grecian style sandals (I’m in Greece….why not??) 😂 the bottoms were very slick. I started down those down steps and got about 1/4 of the way down and realized that my footing wasn’t great and I was slipping in those sandals. At that point, we were too far down the steps to go back and I don’t think I realized that we had another 2 hours of going downhill on a steep incline. I was so afraid of slipping and falling that I wound up taking off my sandals and going barefoot the rest of the way down. There was fresh and dried donkey poo on the steps along with some hay they had strewn about to try and make it easier to step in. I cringed and basically grossed out every step for about 2 hours we until we got to the bottom. I raced to our room and thank god we had a mini suite with a tub because I soaked my feet and scrubbed my feet with every soap I could find for about an hour 😂 it all turned out well in the end and it’s a memory for sure, lol. But we are seriously wearing hiking shoes and taking the tram this time around!

I agee! We did Santorini in 2018 and I think that’s where Greece stole my heart. ❤️ That tram ride going up was insane! Such views! We were lucky enough to get to do a tour with the same guide who provided a tour for Rick Steve’s for his Med Cruise Ports book. It was hands down our favorite tour of that trip. We didn’t want to wait 90 mins to take the tram back down at the end of the day so we walked down the Santorini Steps. This time, we will be waiting for the tram 😂

Thank you so much for your post. I’m going to just look forward, chalk it up to a lesson learned and just enjoy the cruise. We will have 3 days in Rome and then an unbelievable 14 day cruise to Italy, Turkey and Greece. I’m just going to focus on that and be thrilled and thankful that we get to do the trip. We are truly one of the blessed in this world to even be able to go on a trip like this. ❤️ I won’t sweat the 3 days that might have been!

I checked the flights if I booked today with delta directly…it would be $200 cheaper than what I paid for EZ Air tickets last year 😔 same flights…non stop flights there and back. But I’m going to call Dekta to see if they’ll change us but I think they will just tell me to contact Princess and I already know what they will say. I think I’m just chalking this up to a really big lesson learned. 😕 and trysting the universe that for some reason…I’m just not supposed to travel the earlier day or maybe there is a reason I’m supposed to be home those extra 3 days. 🤷‍♀️

Just wanted to share a recent experience with Princess EZ Air in case it helps others and also check to see if any of you have run into this before and maybe have some advice as to how I might rectify the situation? I’ll start with the fact that we are novice cruisers who have only been on 2 cruises… both on Crown Princess. We did the Med in 2018 (used EZ Air) and the Southern Caribbean (booked directly with airline using points) in 2019. Haven’t traveled since then due to Covid. We are cruising the Med again this Spring on Enchanted. I booked airline tickets through EZ Air in June 2022 and got great prices. I purchased flexible fare and they were more costly than the “restricted fares” just in case we wanted to change our flights as we got closer to the trip. But in September 2022 - in trying to do the right thing and just get some of the trip paid for so it isn’t such a big cost all at once right before the trip - I did early ticketing for the flights and went ahead and paid for them. Doing this changed my tickets to restricted and non-refundable! The Princess representative said “it’s in the fine print of the terms and agreement from when you paid for the flights”. Sure enough…we now have an opportunity to fly on Saturday 4/15 instead of the Tuesday 4/18 flight we originally booked which would give us 3 extra days in Rome pre cruise (for a total of 6 days to see Rome before embarkation on 4/22). Basically, I am being told I can’t change the flights without a change fee because I have already paid for them. Changing to a Saturday flight at this point would cost $550 per person just to change the one flight. I advised the supervisor that I felt like I was being penalized just because I did the responsible adult thing and actually paid for my flights instead of waiting until the last minute to pay. So basically - if I had reserved through EZ Air but hadn’t paid for them yet, I could change the tickets as often as I wanted. Once you pay for the tickets - you are stuck with them. The odd thing though…Princess told me yesterday that THEY get charged a $550 per person change fee so they have to in turn charge me. But the Delta website says that you can change your flight for no cost if you are in the Main cabin or higher. I feel like it would take me months and months to get Princess and Delta on the same page on this one. Ugh. We obviously aren’t going to pay an extra $1100 just to change our flights but if you are new to cruising with Princess, please just know this about using EZ Air for your plane tickets. Don’t pay for your plane tickets until 45 days before your trip just in case your travel dates change! If I had booked directly with Delta, I could easily change my flights no problem. While I love Princess and still feel extraordinarily lucky to be going on this trip, I have a bit of a bad taste in my mouth regarding their unwillingness to work with me and just let us reschedule the outbound flight to an earlier day with the same airline. 😕 So it’s a very costly lesson for me to learn about using EZ Air - costly in that we won’t get to enjoy 3 extra days in Rome. 😢 Wonder what everyone’s experience has been with early ticketing with EZ Air and if anyone has helpful advice? Thanks!

We did Spain, France, Italy, Greek Isles and Montenegro at the last 2 weeks of April in 2018 and the weather was spectacular! Brilliant sunshine with highs in the 70’s in ports with a light breeze every day and refreshing lows in the 60’s on the ship at night. Heaven! We are going to Italy, Turkey and Greece April 18 - May 6 in 2023 and chose this same season because of the crowd size (low) and beautiful weather. We love traipsing around old towns and ancient ruins and I can’t imagine doing that in the blazing heat of August. June, July and August are the hottest, busiest and most expensive months in the Mediterranean months and many Europeans will take the entire month of August off for their holiday so restaurants and attractions might be closed or limited. Have never been to Alaska - it’s on my bucket list but when I do - it will be on Princess and during a time when kids are in school. And I will add some sort of land tour to Denali or somewhere like that in order to have that whole “lodge” experience 🙂 good luck on your decision…it sounds like you are in for a lovely vacation either way