luckymike

If the head waiter sees a passenger pouring his own wine, then the waiter or asistant waiter will get in trouble with the head waiter.

We always advise the head waiter that we will pour out wine and also advise our waitstaff that the head waiter has been informed.... We've never has issues over this matter.:):)

Folks:

We're doing a b2b on regal this coming feb. and wondering if we purchase the 12 bottle package if we can carry over any wine bottles for the second week as I know we would not consume 12 bottles in a week.

:D An hour ago I received a call from Princess Cruise Line asking if we'd be willing to switch to a cruise leaving out of Seattle a day earlier.

 

First of all, I have to say I am beyond excited.

 

I was told our cruise on the Grand Princess leaving Seattle for Alaska (Tracy Arm) this Sunday August 24th is over booked. The Princess Rep said he was calling locals living near Seattle to make the switch.

 

He switched us to the Golden Princess (Glacier Bay) leaving Seattle tomorrow Saturday August 23rd.

 

On the Grand we booked a guarantee balcony. They had assigned us B733

 

 

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Now on the Golden Princess they upgraded us to a Mini Suite D724. :D

 

We've stayed in a Mini Suite previously on the Dolphin Deck & loved it.

 

For this cruise leaving tomorrow we will cruise through Glacier Bay. I am beyond happy about this because previously we've only cruised through Tracy Arm.

 

I love the Golden Princess, love Princess Cruise Line, & am in scramble mode to get packed a day earlier. ***So so so EXCITED for the upgrade & itinerary switch.

My wife and I received a move over a number of years ago on a carrebean cruise and we received a mini suite and my wife also received a free cruise. I believe you ought to have been better compensated.

Happy to hear the seas have calmed down.:) Thanks for your post.:D

Good morning followers!

 

We did not lose another hour last night which was wonderful! The skies are sunny and clear and the ship has hit some clear, smooth water again! The temperature at 8:00 is 72 degrees. Should be another warm day.

 

Breakfast in the HC again. The made to order omelets are wonderful. You choose what you want, they give you a ticket and you give it to your server. They bring it to you when it is ready. You can also give your coffee card to your server and they will bring you a latte right to your table. The coffee in the horizon court is brewed and very good! The formal dining room coffee is the same old syrup swill as on all the ships. I am puzzled as to why they can have brewed coffee in the buffet and not the dining rooms? The fruit has been really good too. I had some watermelon and pineapple that was excellent.

 

This morning you could play bridge, mahjong, shoot clay skeets, line dance, 3 different spa seminars to sell you stuff, pinochle, seminar on Russian diamonds, port talk on London/Southampton, volleyball tourney, bingo and Super Tuscan wine tasting at 11:00. We would have liked the wine tasting, but not at 11:00 - seemed like a really odd time. We watched yesterday's port lecture on the Azores on the wonderful TV in our room! We have been there on our last TA, but she did a great job and talked about all 8 islands, even though we are only stopping at Ponta Delgado. She was an excellent port lecturer.

 

We decided to go and sit in the hot tub before lunch. We found one that we could see MUTS from. The water temp was perfect and we had it all to ourselves - score! I have to comment on the screen - the picture is so much clearer than on all the other ships. We also could hear the audio clearly. The screen really is a step up! While we were in the tub they announced a medical emergency and asked for A positive or A negative blood if you had your blood donor card with you. Never heard anymore, so prayed they were OK!

 

We went to the main dining room for lunch and sat with 3 men from Australia and one man from Sweden. Food was not too good, but the company was great. I should have known better than to try tortilla soup - no seasoning. Fish was greasy, but my salad was great. Their honey mustard dressing is superb (thanks, Pam for recommending it!)

 

After lunch I went to the Vista lounge and watched a great movie, Rush. Jerry read on his iPad. There were plenty of activities. I love the dance lessons in the piazza. Fun to watch couples learning new things and the music is great! I saw the new $10 high tea at 3:30. It looked very nice and I am going to get a friend to go with me. Very fancy table settings and looked like nicer food than the free one. The afternoon also offered a blackjack tournament, art@sea presentation on the life of Thomas Kinkade, box making craft, riddle me this, tribond trivia, and various seminars to make Princess lots of cash!

 

Dinner in the formal dining room was excellent again. Our server, Bagdan gives us his recommendations each night and he is always right! We both had Crab cake

appetizer, I had turkey scaloppine with Gorgonzola cream sauce, Jerry had diver scallops and both had hot fudge brownie with ice cream for dessert.

 

We went to the Princess theatre and watched a really good pianist, Amy Abler, who called herself, Piano Divalicious. Afterwards we went up on deck 16 and watched the Watercolor Fantasy fountain/light show. This was the first one we went to and the theme was, Frank Sinatra. Very nice, but it was windy and a little chilly! Glad we saw it tonight!

 

We lose another hour tonight! Hope this is the last one for a while!

 

Stay tuned - for more tomorrow! We are the co-leaders of our Cruise Critic cabin crawl/poker run tomorrow afternoon. We have 80 signed up and I have a feeling it is going to be like "herding cats" - stay tuned!

Hi Gwen, love ur live review, just wondering if George Evans is still on the ship as the entertainer. He was there in the spring and we really enjoyed his style of music.

Lucky mike

What I find interesting is the fact that you keep sailing around the same ports and on the same ship yet your writing skills/abilities make us want to read your blog even though it's a repeat most of the time, excellent job ...keep it up!

This is not a review but in a way it is. It show cases the Royal Princess and it's many great features during the maiden transatlantic crossing. Hope you enjoy it. It's a little long so be patient with it. :)

Hi Dave:), your photo review is rather interesting and well done, what I like about it is that you have included VIDEOS with your presentation and they play without us having to switch to another viewing format, rather neat.;)

I read that you used "Photodex" , I searched for it and it seems to be part of "FLICKR" RIGHT?:confused:

Is it a free download?:confused:

Mike:)

I logged on to the Princess website today to make final payment and looked up the itinerary for our upcoming cruise on the Ruby. Lo and behold it turns out that Princess is having a sale and I was able to save $160/pp AND get an extra US$25/pp onboard credit.

 

Only caveat was that the deposit changed to being non-refundable (but we'd booked with FCCs so we'd only be out $200 if we have to cancel).

 

So check your bookings. You might have a reduction available!

Hi and thank you "CROPTOP" :)

I called Princess as a result of your post and the end result is that I went from a Balcony Cabin to a "Deluxe" Balcony Cabin with a reduction of over $600,00 U.S.:eek: on our back to back booking for Feb. 2014. :)

A very nice price reduction, thanks for posting this notification.;);):D

Mike

 

 

 

MDR entrance

 

Hi Gambee, great review again, I love your photos taken while touring the various indoor shops.

Are you using the automatic mode, if not can you please explain.

I recently purchased the same camera as yours.

Thanks

My wife & I will be on the Allure in Feb. so we have followed your thread with pleasure.

You have as of tonight 973 visits, fellow C C members let's get it to over 1000 visits.