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40 minutes ago, Hlitner said:

It was a promotion through Princess which I believe (not completely sure) was part of their Best Sale Ever.  I simply spotted a post somewhere here on CC and, since we were planning to book a Princess cruise, I mentioned the promotion to our cruise agent and ask her to "check it out."  Within 10 min she sent me an e-mail and said the upgrade (to Premiere) was already showing on our account.

 

We later learned, from some other posts, that the promotion was limited to only certain cruises.

 

Hank

Thanks.

On 2/9/2023 at 9:00 AM, Hlitner said:

We just looked at our "Princess Travel Summary" which has the detailed info on specific benefits covered by packages.  We recently booked the Sky with the Plus Package, got a free upgrade to the Premiere Package (promotion for vets).  On our summary it clearly says "Free Medallion Shipping" and values this at $14 per person!

 

Hank

Was the free upgrade to Premiere for vets through Princess, or another route.  How did you know you got it.  

I had something like this happen, except that I kept the booking.

My TA asked for a Courtesy Hold, but they said as it was a FCC it was automatically applied, and we were under “penalty”.  No one including my TA understood what that meant.

I did have to call Princess though to get the FCD, OBC correctly applied to the booking.

6 minutes ago, Rick&Jeannie said:

Not trying to sound like a jerk here...but what *else* would this port be used for if not to serve as a charging port?

I was worried as I have had a number of these lamps in hotels, not have enough power or the like to actually get the charging indicator on my device.  

Has anyone had experience with charging cell phones, ipad, power banks etc using the USB port on the lamps in the rooms?

Wondering if they work to actually give your device a charge.

If they work we can skip the extra outlet splitter plugs.

On 12/31/2020 at 7:09 PM, OttawaCA said:

I have a collection of Princess T-shirts that are wearing out.

 

Unfortunately, I don’t think I will be able to buy new ones on-board soon.

 

Does anyone know if they sell them on-line?  I can’t find anything on princess.com

I don’t think you are getting the notification that we have stuff for you.  I checked the t-shirt is brand new, it says REGAL Princess, it is a mens Medium, but it looks big. You can have it if it will fit.

I tried sending you a message but it was disabled.  What size are you?  I may have at least one brand new that my Mom just gave me.  I am also in Ottawa

For the Alaska we “had” booked, it was going to cost is $1500 CAD for the two weeks for the Package vs the Basic,  it was not really worth it.  

On 12/18/2020 at 1:41 AM, Astro Flyer said:

There have been rumors about the status of B2B cruises due to the CDC 7 day cruise length limit.
 

That question was asked at a webinar last week with the Princess VP of Sales who stated they’ve contacted the CDC for clarification about B2B cruises however they haven’t received an answer. Apparently the CDC has not decided if B2B cruises will be prohibited. Currently Princess is allowing booking multiple consecutive cruises which includes two of my B2B bookings.

I had a b2b booked for Sep, but it was booked as the 14 day version of the trip, it was cancelled by Princess many weeks ago

11 hours ago, memoak said:

No one has any idea what the CDC will be doing regarding when B2B cruises will be allowed  Many people have B2B cruises set for late 2021 Alaska cruises that have not yet been cancelled. Cross your fingers 

 

I had it booked as the 14 day version, as the OBC is better that way and it was cancelled by Princess.  It was for Sep 21.

1 hour ago, Bgwest said:

Please elaborate. 

It was Vancouver to Whittier return for next Sep.

Mine was cancelled by Princess.

20 hours ago, Kelownabccan said:

Was looking at the schedule.....do not see any out of Vancouver returning after 7 days.....only 14 day ones up to Anchorage and back....they used to have some but not now......am I missing anything???

The 14 days are two back to back 7 days, and mine just disappeared from my list.  No official cancellation yet.  FCD still shows applied to the crisue.

It was in Club Fusion in the fall of 2018

Any cruise that was scheduled to be more than 7 days is showing up as not available at the moment due to the CDC directives.

Although is was not Princess ( I got back our $10,000 back in July).  I just got back my taxes from the flights I had booked with Points.  The flights were cancelled before the end of March.

1 hour ago, lyndarra said:

It was most likely free under Australian Medicare.

https://www.choice.com.au/money/insurance/health/articles/coronavirus-covid-health-insurance

As with Canada as well  health coverage is not free, we pay a lot of taxes for it.  We just do not have to shell out for each Dr visit.  

You will be lucky to get a top sheet and a blanket now.  
 

My mom does not really like a duvet, and she has to beg for a blanket.
 

There sometimes is no understandable reason for the cabin availability.  We wanted to book the 14 day version of two 7day Alaska trips.  The better cabins are only available for the 7 day cruises and not the 14.  You would think they would prefer to sell the longer time, but not always .

I just checked mine, we submitted ours in 2016, but mine also shows an expiration date of the end of 2021....

Thank you to Cruise Wonderland, it was fun to read that list (even though it did not happen).

14 hours ago, pkt1976 said:

My Alaska Cruise is doing that too. My Panama Canal Cruise lets me book excursions. Weird 

I was just able to book the excursions this morning.  We are going next Sep, so it could have been a month thing, now that we are in Oct, it allowed the booking.

Enough OBC so no risk to book it now.

I know in the past Excursions were not listed on a cruise until a few months before the trip.  
I have rebooked for Alaska for next Sep.

All the excursions are showing up, including prices.  It lets you select a time and the Passengers, but then when you click buy, it says there are errors for certain passengers (all those selected)

The cruise contract is completed.

Any ideas?  

10 hours ago, Steelers36 said:

Then why did you book P+??

Last week, it is $53 CAD per person per day more.  They have not corrected the exchange yet, so we are paying a much higher than the “bank” rate.

Right now the issue in Canada is that due to demand it can take upto 5 days to get the results, so having a test in the past 72 hrs, we could still be waiting for results.