Kaylacool

Have never sailed over Christmas before and curious to know of what happens for Christmas lunch on Princess or is it more likely the evening meal is the focus. We are sailing to New Zealand as a couple so no family will be with us.  

Do you prebook into the main dining rooms or are specialty restaurants more the way to go to celebrate Christmas on the ship?

Any insight on what to expect would be appreciated.

1 minute ago, Sparky74 said:

I would like to try to do an almost live trip report, posting as we have access to Internet. If I do, I'll start it as a new thread and just post mini updates here. 
Like:

Our flight from Coffs Harbour was delayed so they had to change our flight to Sydney. 
We are now waiting for our flight to Vancouver, due to depart at 2025 (that’s 8:25pm, not 2 years away!)

I can’t usually sleep on a plane but I’m so tired right now.

We're now scheduled to arrive in Seattle at 2125 (9:25pm) so nice we get through immigration and get to our hotel it will be straight to bed!

Thanks for the update and hopefully this will be your only hiccup on a great trip and your adventures ahead.  Safe travels!

4 minutes ago, Jean C said:

Thank you everyone for all your helpful suggestions and information. Princess havej now announced that boarding will be today from 5.30pm by deck number. We are Caribe so our time is 6.30pm. Finally some certainty as to what the day holds, will be able to store our bags (hopefully) and have the day to explore with a relaxed mind and 🤗

All the very best to you on your belated cruise.  Once on board I hope the challenges of the last few days are forgotten as you get in to 'cruise mode'  and your happy holidays commence.

P & O Pacific Explorer - Fiji Adventure departs Sydney August 8, 2022 for 12 nights only 3 ports.

Interesting itinerary in that it goes down to Auckland and then back up to Lautoko and Dravuni Island.  9 sea days :O

Interior from $1024 ($85 per night)  Balcony for $1749 ($145 per night)

We will be on a 3 night cruise and sorting out packing  as we will be away a couple of days prior to departure and not doing any washing of clothes.  Does anyone know if you can get laundry done by Princess staff on short cruises?

All the very best for your sea adventures 

Yeahh!!! Got my booking confirmation. 

We were booked on the 6th August cruise which was cancelled.  We decided to keep current booking and move over to the alternate cruise departing 5th Nov this year.

We are yet to receive our new booking number or confirmation details that we are on the November cruise despite the 45 days that passed in regards to accepting of this offer was end of last month.  I have followed up with agent but she is awaiting advice from P & O.  Thought I would check in here as possible other CC members may have some insight.  When I look online at this cruise for November I can see that there are no cabins available in the category we booked so feeling a little anxious about this.

Is anybody else in the same situation for this cancelled cruise but has received the new details or are you still waiting for your confirmation too?  

Thanks

K

As there has been no dividend payment for a while that provides evidence you are currently an owner of shares, what are cruisers providing to Princess/carnival to show their current proof of ownership?

thanks

K

We are booked mid may 2021 Vancouver - Fairbanks on Coral Princess with the Connoisseur tour up into the Princess wilderness lodge.  Then sailing back early June on Celebrity - Seward to Vancouver.  We were to have done this trip this year.  Hopeful it will work out in 2021 but must say not confident it will go ahead.  

What will be will be.

I'm in Australia but booked Alaskan cruise on Celebrity with US online travel agency (TA) in January this year to have sailed on May 29, 2020. 

This morning made contact with TA and have arranged for lift and shift of Celebrity cruise.  Same cruise itinerary didn't have to pay anything extra just shifted orginal booking and OBC over to date in June 2021.  All went very smoothly.

22 minutes ago, Geoffa30 said:

Hurrah! Some positive news. Checked my credit card this morning and our refund has arrived.

 

Our cruise was on Sky Princess on 28 March. We chose option two on 12 March so refund took 68 days from submission. Now to wait for the 50% bonus FCC to show up in my account. We had had the FCDs that were used to book the cruise around three or four weeks ago.

Were the Future Cruise Deposits (FCDs) recredited back to you to use for future bookings?  My travel agent told me that this wouldn't be happening as you are paid this money back in your refund therefore you no longer have them as FCDs

20 minutes ago, Big Kev said:

Be aware that in USD, Port taxes/fees are added later, as are gratuities when on-board.. In AUD, the bottom line you get to, is the real bottom line..  HAve found that in recent years, after conversion, everything very close apart from final payment and cancellation windows.

 

S and P

Thanks for your response.  Will be sure to factor in taxes when caluculating final price.  As this is an international cruise wouldn't i be paying gratuties anyway whether booked in Oz or US but if it was an Australian cruise grats would be factored into pricing??

Noticing significant differences in prices and benefits from the US Celebrity website to the AU Celebrity website. 

Has anyone successfully booked a cruise on the US site from Austrailia.  Even with the dollar conversion seeing much better deal in the US.  If you've been successful are then any pitfalls or issues I should be aware of in going down this path?

thanks

K

If you have used a future cruise deposit when you made your original bookings for your deposit are these 'credited' back to you to reuse.  I've had 2 cruises cancelled by Princess that I'm waiting on refunds/fcc for so keen to know if we also receive our Futrue Cruise deposits credited back to us?

On 3/26/2020 at 10:35 PM, Ontario Cruiser said:

Ask your airline to provide you or your travel agent with a waiver code then phone ChoiceAir with it i just did and will get my refund for my non-refundable ticket from Celebrity in 5 to 10 business days.

OntarioCruiser

We booked our flights through Celebriy air and they booked through Air Canada and Alaskan air. The flights haven't been cancelled but the cruise has. Would the above approach work?

Thank you for sharing your story.  Interesting read and good to hear you were able to keep safe and continue your adventures. 

Thanks for the info. Very uncertain times for us all on so many levels atm.

We were sailing from Australia in April and were sailing Sydney to Vancouver on the Ruby Princess which has been cancelled 😢

We were then booked on the Royal for a May 16 departure Vancouver to Alaska cruise tour which falls outside of Princesses current 60 days cancellation dates.

We hope Princess comes back to us soon on what is planned for this itinerary as we will now need to purchase a one way flight to Vancouver if it proceeds. Princess would make it easy for us if they advised this cruise is now cancelled and then we are forced to accept 'no holiday of a lifetime' for us in 2020. 😢

You pay when its time for your final payment for your cruise.  

We are sailing from Sydney to Vancouver and then up into Alaska.  We will be overseas for around 70 days and are looking to buy a sim card for mobile phone use mainly to be contactable and communicate with family back in Australia.

Does anyone have recent experience with purchasing a mobile phone sim and phone plan etc. they could recommend that will give coverage for both USA and Canada? 

thanks

Kayla 

They are also converting the window suites into family rooms which will create additional passenger capacity.

On 11/9/2019 at 10:57 AM, OzKiwiJJ said:

I budget for everything I can think of. You should see my master cruise spreadsheet, a separate sheet for each cruise plus a summary sheet showing pp per day costs so I can compare prices of new cruises.

 

Because of the drinks price increases I set a $70pp per day budget - we both have predinner cocktails, wine with dinner (and we don't always pick the cheapest wines 😉), and a nightcap. DH will sometimes have a beer with lunch but I usually don't bother. Our average over the whole cruise was $55 pp per day. Quite a decent saving so we decided to sneak in another sh ort cruise before Xmas. 🤣

Well done to you on keeping on top of expenditure.  I would love to be so organised. Is it possible at all for you to share your spreadsheet?

thanks

Kayla

19 hours ago, terry&mike said:

I'm not sure the terms in Australia. In the US, if you are before final payment and you "refare" your cruise (not cancel and rebook) then your air that you have saved to your reservation does not change. If you need to cancel your reservation, and "rebook" then you will not retain your saved airfare. 

Thanks for your response.  My TA said that i would need to cancel and rebook as this price was only for new bookings??

Plus this also meant we would have to rebook airfares and they are much higher atm.  Doesn't look that attractive anymore 😞

I've booked a cruise and ezair flexible fare with Princess.

With a current promo Princess have I can save over $500 on the cruise cost. If I contact my travel agent to rebook with the cheaper fare, what happens to the airfare component. Does it have to rebook as this would be a worry as currently airfares are $100s of more and are no longer flexible only fixed?  Ideally I would want to keep the airfare but rebook the cruise.  Is this possible? 

I've booked a cruise and ezair flexible fare with Princess.

With a current promo Princess have I can save over $500 on the cruise cost. If I contact my travel agent to rebook with the cheaper fare, what happens to the airfare compenent. Does it have to rebook as this would be a worry as currently airfares are $100s of more and are no longer flexible only fixed.  Ideally I would want to keep the airfare but rebook the cruise.  Is this possible? 

thanks

Kayla