threebluestars

So I have a weird question about GF dining (for my mom). I know you talk to the maitre'd the night before and he'll give you the next night's menu to choose from. What happens if you, say, decide to go to the buffet instead, or your excursion is so long you decide to just grab room service? Is a meal going to waste? Do the kitchen staff want to kill you? Do you need to inform someone ahead of time that you aren't coming? Or do you have to choose knowing you'll definitely go to the dining room the next night?

Thank you both!

We want to go on the same excursion together, but each want to pay on our own cards. Will it matter if we do this or should one person book both of us on the excursion to guarantee we actually get to be on the same bus together?

Ugh, I wish I'd booked a few weeks ago but because my cruise isn't until September I resisted. Now the only one we were going to take (because it was in to Paris from Le Havre and didn't want to risk not returning on time) has gone up FIFTY dollars. This is my first Princess cruise in 30+ years. We'll see how it goes.

The only time I noticed crowds was in the buffet at breakfast and dinner. There were times walking around the ship - on sea days - when I was thinking "Where IS everyone?" and we had a full ship.

I priced the cruise with the room category I wanted, went through to the book page where it said 7300 total and when I logged in, it suddenly jumped to 10,000. Special pricing, indeed.

Big huge promenade deck. While I like the Neptune lounge, I'd love a space that had WINDOWS. Neptune should have a lounge with a view (and I wouldn't mind it having indoor and outdoor space). Then the indoor inside lounge could be for Vista/Signature only to give those suites a few more perks. Capacity around 1900-2200. More than that feels too crowded. A few more cafe style places like Dutch cafe or the Explorations cafe. A bit more cover outside for dining. I find the buffet too busy sometimes (especially post-COVID) it's hard at Seaview because of all the smoke, because it limits outdoor seating to just one small half that's under cover if the weather isn't great. A small plunge pool on the Sun Deck to cool off.

I was horribly seasick on my first cruise - the seas were so bad a lot of the crew was ill too. I was terrified to cruise again, but my friend told me to take Bonine chewables. I started a few days before the cruise so it was in my system, and then one a day during the cruise. It worked really well but I didn't take them the morning we docked and felt like I was on the ship for 5 days after that. The most recent time I cruised I did the same but continued to take them for two days after and I never felt that rocking feeling on shore after. I also bring Gravol and ginger as backups just in case the Bonine doesn't work, but I've never had to use them.

Vista and Signature all the way - mostly because of the promenade deck. I spend a lot of time there, and I can't figure out why they'd shrink it to almost unusable on the Pinnacle ships. I haven't been on an R class yet - thinking of doing a short (under 5 day) cruise to see if I like the size or not.

I'm just looking at departures to Mexico out of San Diego and there are none listed for February in 2024 or 2025. What is the reason for this? Charters?

I think this just clinched my decision of which part of the Caribbean to visit lol.

Internet speed on Zuiderdam was really slow on the Surf package - not to mention a pain in the butt switching back and forth on multiple devices. For the cost, it really should be better.

I was exposed on a Friday, woke up with symptoms that Sunday and tested positive that same day (BA.5 variant). It was a speedy little devil.

We booked directly with the site - they sent an email yesterday, I thought it was another check in time change or something and was surprised it was an invite to upgrade. We never got one on our last cruise. The weird thing is our cruise is showed as sold out yesterday - today it doesn't but you can't try and book anything because it says it has no rooms lol.

We did call after we initially booked to let them know, so hopefully it will be passed on. Where on the site can I check that?