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We were on Jan 29th sailing and returned to Colon at about 6 or 6:30pm from old lock transit excursion...No problem returning on board, just keep walking and there were 3 entrances to re-board, easy peasy...

Sailing and seeing Alaska with Royal Princess - no problems, Alaska was great. Now that I am able to compare Royal Princess to Ruby Princess (sailing partial transit Panama canal), my first negative opinion would go to entertainment team on Royal. I did not expect to see such a huge difference. Ruby was much, much better. But two production shows are still nay...rest are awesome. Food quality is pretty much the same between two ships in MDR, but buffett is smaller on Ruby. Did not experience other significant differences.

Ruby's night entertainment was amazing thanks to Gravity band and everyone from ship's entertainment leadership!!! Gravity has tried and satisfied variety of music choices and tastes. Some people like disco, some like line dancing or slow. So different from our experience on Royal Princess, where only "line dancing" music was offered and favored by a small group of people. Piano, violines, steel pan, acoustic guitar...very, very good. But, honestly, not a fan of production shows. Have seen it on Royal, and, nope...not for us.

For the same reason, I have decided to stay a little farther away, in Plantation. It was around $160 (probably plus taxes), but I had a little bit of Hyatt points and it was enough to cover an overnight stay.

It is exactly how I have just received my refund to CC, excursion #2 was paid with CC and canceled. Still have a separate and active excursion #1, a standalone purchase with OBC+CC.

Here is an update to my own cancelation and chat with princess rep. I just noticed a refund on my CC, 2 days after talking to someone over the Live Chat. Canceled on Jan. 6th, initiated a chat on Jan. 22nd, refund is showing up on Jan. 24th.

I've canceled on Jan 6th, sailing next Monday 29th, paid by CC...still waiting...Connected by chat with customer service yesterday, the guy has requested a CC refund on my account....asked to be patient with processing the refund....We'll see.

May I ask what are the tipping ethics? Cash after the massage? Adding to the bill? Thank you.

As a matter of fact, first time ever, I've decided to chat today regarding my refund for canceled shore excursion (sailing next week). It has been more than 2 weeks, and I've heard nada from Princess and no refund. I started at about 9:45am, waited online for about 20 minutes and saw queue going down from 75 people in front of me down to 0. I had to confirm after 10 minutes that I am still waiting. It took me about 25 minutes online chatting with a rep and at the end he said that he is issuing a refund to my CC. He actually asked me how much they owe me since he had no visibility to excursions. I'll believe it when I see my money. But that is my experience today. First and hopefully last.

13 days before sailing.

I have no problems logging in with a login ID and password, it works right away, BUT, session expires very quickly and have to log in again.

I paid for excursions in 2 sets. First one for 1 excursion paid with OBC and CC. Second one is with CC only and I have canceled one of the excursion from this second set. What do you think?

Oh boy...I just canceled one of our excursions maybe 4-5 days ago...It was paid by CC. Are you saying that I need to contact Princess to get my refund? Still nothing on my CC.

Loved it! So funny...bravo!

And I usually open both Uber and Lyft apps and compare the cost between two. Depending on location and time of the day, cost varies, and i usually pick whatever costs less 😁

IMHO, 10:30 is too close for my personal comfort level, I just don't like to be rushed early in the morning after a nice vacation.

When we sailed with Princess from Seattle, they were offering free of charge ship to airport luggage transfer if you were flying with specific airlines. Not sure yet if this option is available with MIA or FLL. And also there are excursions on disembarkation to kill some time.

When we were on Royal, the Cab that was offered with Plus package was pretty much undrinkable, according to my husband. We later found it in Total Wine for $6 a bottle. The one offered with Premier was better...don't remember the name...

There is a happy hour? Really? What's the deal?

Any idea if or how often Princess updates their desert menu? 95% looks the same as we've had on Royal few month ago on Alaska sailing. I think I've tried most of them...Those domes may have different names and colors but taste the same. Cheesecakes, creme brulee and tiramisu are probably the most classics and would not change, but seriously, I wish these menus had more varieties from ship to ship...

Where is Royal sailing right now? Lobster was offered one night for free during our sailing to Alaska at the end of August. For our fist sailing with Princess we were OK with food, for most of the time, except we felt it was occasionally oversalted. Now that we are sailing again in January, I see that menus are shared between the ships...I don't know, it feels boring to me, but we'll see, maybe I am wrong.

I have few pictures if someone is interested. Sandia en fuego, Vanilla sky and Butterfly. Vanilla sky is very refreshing and goes fast and easy. The rest are just OK.

List of classes and description is available by accessing the Lotus Spa page. I was able to see it on my computer. But when I went to sign up on Royal, what interested me was only at 7am, and no way I would wake up so early on my vacation.

I sent my Sun Devil a message with this score and she replied saying "Sounds about right 🙃"

In my line of work we call it an "objective evidence" 😄. Not something that one should do as everyday activity 😄.