DavidsNana

Thanks for the much needed laugh!! Made my day.

Just as others here, I am so sorry for your loss and that you had to experience this. My heart goes out to you.

I had no OBC on that cruise so paid cash for them prior so maybe that is the difference. So if paid for with OBC, then I would guess that it will show as additional OBC after you get on. Interesting. I will see on my upcoming cruises in Feb and April as I do have OBC on those and quite a bit. Thanks for the info on what happens with OBC.

I just checked my bill for my Feb 27-Mar 6th 2022 cruise and the 10% is credited on my bill, not as OBC. It says "10% Shorex Discount-Elite Member Exclus" and then lists it as a minus amount.

I just love all the pictures and captions of what the bears and moose are doing on the ships in their pictures! Brings many smiles to me. Thanks so very much.

@travelin.sistersThanks so much for the pictures and all the information you provide. I just love your reviews.

Thanks for the info and picture. Hopefully, they have it on the Sky in late Feb. It will make my son very happy.

Just tried it and worked like a charm. I wasn't checking the pictures of my son and his lady. Thanks so very much again. Totally appreciated.

I will try that. Thanks for the information.

@ThrakIgnore my name issue as t&atravel answered and it worked. But if you know the answer to my DMW issue I would appreciate your help. Thank you.

Thank you. You are a genius. I put in a preferred name and wouldn't let me save so went to the emergency contact info and I had an extra "1" in the phone numbers for day and night. Changed them and now my home page says my first name instead of First Name Only.

Mine says "First Name Only" but my son's has his first name and his phone is older than mine, both iPhones. All my other info seems to be correct and my name is on all other areas. Strange. Something I don't understand is that my son and his lady are in separate cabin from me. I put them in as traveling companions and tried to make standing dinner reservations for same time same dining room and the reservations are there. However, just my picture shows so it looks like I just have a private table for myself. What am I doing wrong? I know you are one of the experts on this DMW stuff.

@CrystabelThanks for checking on the Chicken Waldorf Salad. Sorry to hear that it is there but Blah! Just rather not have it if no flavor. @cruzin4usYes, the Fennel Shrimp was my favorite of the two. Sorry not available. Maybe in the future. Also, my son loved the watermelon caprese salad that they had a few years ago, actually 2018 on the Caribbean Princess. He was not sure if he would like it with watermelon rather than tomatos but he ended up liking it better than the tomato one. Thanks for checking for me. Will see what is available in March on the Sky and April on the Caribbean.

I used to really like the shrimp salad and the chicken cashew salad that they had in the International Cafe. In the pictures that I have seen of the food there lately, I don't seem to see these items. If you get a chance, could you look for me? Thank you and have a wonderful time. I agree with you about the Promenade deck. Those lifeboats are terrible and it is so narrow that it would not be a pleasant place to walk or stand and look out at the sea.

@57ericI too am not satisfied with my current Princess Vacation Planner and would like to make a change. However, your experience makes me leery of even trying. I have two cruises booked and after much correction on one of them, they are currently OK but I really do not want to deal with my current PVP ever again including anything I might need on these two cruises. I think I just might leave things alone and revert back to a cruise travel agent in the future. 96 minutes on the phone is not my idea of "fun". Thank you for your post letting us know what you had to go through.

@memoakWell nix my idea of looking at the table placements in the dining rooms. I just checked the deck plans on the Princess website and they do not show the table placements. Probably as they can make the tables in the center of the smaller dining rooms bigger or smaller as parties of diners change. I do remember that as you walked in the door, to one side of the smaller dining rooms there were banquette seating there with very small tables placed in front to make tables for two and then the tables could be moved closer together to make tables for 4. It was pretty tight in that area.

No there would not be a reason for the menu. However, you night look at the layout of the tables in the 4 smaller ones compared to the larger one and see if you would prefer one layout over the other. As I recall and it has been a very long time since I was aboard, the layouts in the smaller 4 were pretty much the same and some of the tables for two were quite close together, even more so than the tables for 2 on the other ships.

When we were on the Sapphire only a couple of years after she was put into service, there were 4 small dining rooms and one large dining room. The concept of the small 4 was that they were to have different entrees in each of them and the large dining room would have the normal dining room menu. That concept did not work so all of them now serve the same menu.

@Lynnewoband @alpha whiskeyThanks so much for your first hand information and the picture. Makes things much easier to have this information.

There is a group of regular balcony cabins aft on Dolphin deck of the Sky Princess. They are just forward of a group of Mini Suites. They have what looks to be the same size balcony as the mini suites and there was one comment that I read on another site that suggested that these balconies are half covered like the ones on the Caribe Deck of the Caribbean Princess and the other ships in that class. Has anyone sailed in one of this group of cabins on the Sky? If so, can you tell me if the balconies are half covered and if there was a lot of vibration since they are aft and low on the ship? If so, thanks for any info you can give me.

This really makes me sad. I know the Caribbean Princess is one of the older ships but I have sailed on her 4 times and had an awesome experience each time. The last time was in late Feb/early March with my son and we had no problems as I have said before but ship only had 1400 passengers on board. Our internet and the app was also working great. Now I'm hearing all these issues since the April drydock. Makes one wonder. Sure hope everything gets worked out before my next sailing in April 1st 2023. I'm still hopeful but following these posts and very much appreciate these firsthand reports.

Question: My grandson and his wife will be sailing with me on the Caribbean Princess in April. She uses a CPAP. Are you all saying that I will need to get her one of these adapters to be able to use her CPAP and still have the bedside lamp on? If so, thanks as I have never had anyone sail with me that has needed a CPAP before.

I wonder what they will do if his toilet won't flush. Think he will be going to a public area in his robe in the middle of the night to use the toilet! NOT

Yes, I remember seeing videos of the Matson Lines ships sail out of Honolulu from the Aloha Tower and how fancy everything and everyone was. Not so on the SS Leilani. It had been a troop ship in WWII and was converted back to a cruise ship sailing in the 1950's. It was nice to us as the DOD was paying for our trip as we were returning from a year on Midway Island. We were impressed with the dining room service and food even then on what was probably a 2nd class ship. And my sister and I had a separate cabin from our parents, across the hall. However, we were very low in the ship as the portholes were painted over and we had bunkbeds in both cabins. That was the start of my love for cruising.

@Fairsky84According to the video that was shown this afternoon, there is also a glass dome on the top of the ship forward that has a pool and can be used at night for aerial entertainment.