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It can't be done onboard. And there's a deadline to submit by. Did your cousin get a confirmation email that it was submitted? If not, it should show that it's been submitted but not yet approved within the Stockperks app. It does take a few days to get approved because they send it to Princess.

See comments #22 and #39 - that may work if no one has personal experience:

You don’t have to fill any of that personal info out, including your address or yearly income. I skipped the entire section and it went through fine. Most likely if you fill out a portion, it wants everything. I understand hesitation for new things but no one has to upload any personal info. You do have to have a login for the app, but you do not have to attach your stock account to Stockperks to get the OBC. The only thing that needs to be done is to upload a photo of your Carnival stock with everything else except your name redacted.

It's kind of odd that they're on the third sailing, and we still can't book. I would think it wouldn't make a difference once they got started, but shows you what I know lol!

I didn't know I could do it this way. Thanks for the suggestion! Unfortunately, everything is greyed out, so I can't proceed to selecting a date to make a reservation. Guess I'll just have to keep checking to see when it's updated.

With the weather snafus that happened at Florida airports this weekend, they could have tried to have flown in a day early and got bumped to the next day, causing them to miss their ship. Half of the flights at Tampa Intl were cancelled or severely delayed and the South Florida and Orlando airports all had the same issue.

Can anyone provide an explanation on why I still can't make reservations for dining on the Sun Princess? I'm 95 days out and paid in full. When I go into the Book Dining tab, and select either Specialty dining or MDR, it says 'Sorry! There are no available time slots for this date.' I don't remember this happening after I paid on my last cruise (but maybe I wasn't as excited to book on the last one and didn't notice?). I understand that it's a new ship, but is that the reason, or do I need to be within a certain number of days out?

Curious if Park19 has opened yet. And how much does it cost? Editing to add I just saw in the article it's still closed. But would like to know costs, if you're able to find out.

Personally for us, there isn't a benefit to having our child on it. I switch the kid's phone to the wifi at night when we're in the room if they want to watch something on their phone. That premium dessert, we share them because they're so big. We bring sodas on board for the child, but we can also order an adult beverage and a soda and the kid can have them that way. And they carry around a reusable water bottle to keep hydrated. We also tip the room stewart extra whether the adults have a plan or not. We've told them that we're spending a lot already for the experience and there's no need for them to suck down 10 sodas a day. And they're okay with that.

I’ll be asking the Sun Princess bartenders to make me mixed drinks that are $15 or less. It was rare to find many drinks over $15 on our 2023 cruise as well.

Some people don’t know how to behave and end up ruining it for everyone else.

When you book in EZAir, put in your Delta SkyMiles numbers for each passenger. That will add your flights to the Delta app. Go into the Delta app, select the flight and click on the seatmap and you can choose the new seats you want in the upgraded area. The app will ask if you want to pay for the new seats in cash or in points.

It is! Here's the blurb from the press release: Royal Afternoon Tea with Royal Chef Darren McGrady Chef Darren McGrady, personal chef to Queen Elizabeth II, Princess Diana, Prince William and Harry, plus serving five U.S. presidents - leads a sophisticated Royal Afternoon Tea with Sun Princess guests in the Good Spirits at Sea Lounge. Chef McGrady shares his experiences and stories via visual media, interacting with the live host while guests enjoy a spot of tea and the traditional fixings of scones with clotted cream and jam, tea sandwiches, cookies and pastries. Tea pairings include Earl Grey and English Breakfast, along with more exotic varieties like Lapsang Souchong, Assam and Matcha, and guests may request a glass of bubbly for an added charge. Priced at $30 per person, Royal Afternoon Tea is offered on select sea days and can be reserved in advance.

That makes sense since they said he'd be doing a presentation and I didn't think he could be on every cruise. That's fine. It's more the overall experience of spending mother/daughter time together and if it's a proper English tea (the free one on the Sky Princess last year didn't feel like one), it's worth it for us.

Don’t know if it replaces afternoon tea completely. But they’ll be doing a $30 tea with a chef who used to work with England’s royal family. My teen and I are very excited to experience this when we sail.

I wouldn’t worry until it’s been a week. As long as you got the acknowledgment email that it’s been submitted and it’s showing in your portal, they’ll let you know.

There are pictures on FB, but they're a bit haphazard and more of the people than the ship's features. I'm sure there are YouTubers and writers on board who will start to share things in the next few days and then the average Joe will start to share as well. It must be overwhelming on the first day with the excitement of being on the first sailing and the anticipation from the past few weeks of not knowing if they'd be able to board.

Yes but from what I’ve heard, most brokers are under the validation tool where you need to enter your brokerage login and password. Some aren’t comfortable doing that. Fidelity is listed separately so the trick is to pick Fidelity and then upload the image so you don’t have to provide you login info. Caveat: my broker is Fidelity so I can so for certain this approach works or not if you don’t have Fidelity. But it was a fairly simple process to upload the image and it took less than a week to get the OBC in my Princess account.

We book balcony rooms because we have a teen and the balcony gives us a little extra space and separation to be together when we.re all in the room and the teen watches tv. When the teen goes to college though, we’ll probably move to an interior cabin since it’ll just be two of us.

Print out the page of your current statement with the Princess stock info on it. Use a Sharpie and black out everything on the page except the line with the Princess stock info and your name and address (if it’s on there). Take a photo of that page with your phone. Open the app, create an account (you do not have to put your address, phone number or income - just skip that part) and go to Carnival Corp. Go down to Princess and click the Validate Your Portfolio button. Follow the steps and it will ask you to submit your claim. If you select Fidelity (even if you don’t use Fidelity) when you are able to upload, it will allow you to upload the photo you took of your statement. Apologies if I missed a step. I did this last week and it doesn’t let me exactly recreate it from the start. But that’s the gist.

Is it 25/pp per day? Or a flat 25/pp?

This part is very troubling to me. I've worked in Marketing and crisis management that surrounds it, and this is not the way to go. She shouldn't have even acknowledged that she saw your post on this public site. You weren't posting on their website. Even on a social media page, they don't own that and shouldn't be asking anyone to remove any legitimate, non-threatening comments, especially when the info posted came from their own team.

I switched back and forth between my phone and my iPad on our last cruise and plan to do the same on our cruise in the summer. Easy to do. Once on board, if you have questions, head to the Internet cafe and the team there will show you how to do it.

No offense but I’d be way more terrified of what is on towels and sheets if I had a phobia or wanted to avoid contamination. Fecal matter is what is going to get you seriously ill.

Is anyone else having problems looking at excursions and spa treatments on the new app? I'm getting a 'Webpage not available' error, with a go back button on both (sorry if this has already been mentioned - if I scrolled through all 50+ pages I'd be here for a while). Editing to say I'm looking at my booking on the Sun Princess. But there were excursions listed on the old app, so I know they're set for my cruise.