CruisingSandgroper

Crown Grill was used at lunch for the Salty Dog Gastropub on the first sea day and Glacier Bay Bay day on our recent 8 day cruise.

We'll see you on board as we are also doing a B2B, our first. We will be getting on in San Francisco and staying on for the 8 day Alaska.

On 4/16/2024 at 2:29 PM, Captain-John said:

 

Crikey, I did not think a mass-market cruise ship would be favoured by a centimillionaire. Makes me feel even better about my choice to sail Discovery next year.

 

It's not the first time Woz has been on a Princess ship. We did a Bon Voyage Experience in San Francisco a number of years ago and he was on the ship. He very graciously allowed my husband to have his picture taken with him.

Thanks Cruise Raider for a great review it makes me want to make sure we are on a ship in 2026. 

@dickinson yes, I have purchased them before. Keeping my fingers crossed that you'll get the email within the 24hrs.

17 minutes ago, dickinson said:

I called up AARP rewards.  I should have received the email but did not.  He could see that I placed the order at 5:21pm Eastern.  He said I should receive the email with the card info within 24 hours.  He also sent me an email with this info which actually says if an order is placed between 8-5pm Eastern M-F then the order will be received within 24 hours.  I did it at 5:21 pm so we shall see how long it takes!   

@dickinson that's odd. I purchased mine after reading your message that you hadn't received your electronic gift cards by email. I got my gift card emails within a couple of minutes. I hope you receive the email soon and don't have to go chasing it up.

1 hour ago, Buddysmom10 said:

I've never done this but I won't turn down an 8% discount. 

Are these electronic gift cards that I can use pretty much immediately?

I've got my final payment due soon.  

Yes, they are electronic and are available to use as soon as you receive them from AARP. I’ve always received them a few minutes after purchase and I always check the balance of each one on the Princess website as soon as they are received.

7 hours ago, Gatorinmd said:

I have a question about adding an AARP gift card to your OBC with a partial balance. From my understanding I can only add an AARP gift card amount to my OBC when I am on board the ship.

 

For example, I have $149.17 left to pay for my cruise. I buy a $500 AARP Princess Gift card and use it to pay the rest of my balance for my cruise. So this leaves $350.83 left on the gift card. So I just go to guest services and tell them that I would like $350.83 added to my OBC from this gift card? (I will have a print out of the gift card with the number and pin on it)

 

Thanks in advance. 

@Gatorinmd I did this recently at Guest Services on the Crown Princess without any problems. I had a print out of the gift card with pin and had written down the balance of the card after using a portion of it to pay for a cruise.

@AlpacaBagmy husband had the same problem this week, credit card is not the issue. AARP opened up a ticket for him also.

@Cruise Raider you might want to also check the Crown Grill Bar. We found that the SB that we like that was previously available at Vines is available at the Crown Grill by the glass. 

We purchased the premium package the day we embarked on a 7 night Pacific Coastal cruise. It was the same price as what it was if we had added it when booking the cruise. We had OBC towards the purchase and also by adding it once on the ship we did not have to pay the additional Princess vacation insurance that would have been payable had we purchased it when booking the cruise.

We also received the $10 credit which I thought was probably related to the shipping of medallions had we paid for them to be shipped, which we hadn't as I ordered them before they started charging for shipping on no frills fares.

46 minutes ago, Nicole&Pete said:

Oh ok, I’m trying to think of the best tape to cover them that will not leave any damage.

I took painters tape on our last cruise which worked like a charm. I was able to peel it back when I needed the closet light and recover the sensor all week with the same piece of tape without any problems or damage.

We recently got on a tour that we had been waitlisted for. We were waitlisted for quite some time and since we had onboard credit to use for payment I wasn't even aware that we had got on the tour until I printed the travel summary a week or so before the cruise.