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And that lobster… yuck! If you are ever in the Boston area I will grill you an amazing lobster! 🤪

I know that staff are all about positive reviews in the survey but Princess does NOTHING about negative comments that I can’t see them even reading them never mind giving kudos to crew. I have written some really bad things in the survey and they didn’t feel the need to contact me nor has anything changed.

The pics of the ship before any passengers were up is priceless!

Not until April. Will be very excited to see your pics and thoughts. It’s the only deck that has an aft view for that last cabin. Will be interested in any noise from above too. Let us know!!

I’m on the port side, same cabin. When do you sail?

Simple solution. As soon as you buy a book open your kindle and download it. Then it’s on your device wherever you are.

There’s a ton more shade on the sun deck then on the non Edge class ships where there is none! Depending on where the sun is, there are lounges with overhangs and umbrellas neck to deck chairs. And there is a small pool for relief from the heat.

And just because the WiFi may be on on your kindle doesn’t mean you will charged for internet use. You still would have to log on the ships internet. And if you don’t have an account there is nothing to charge you. But yes, put it on airplane mode. It helps save your battery too. I always have it in airplane mode unless I’m downloading another book. Even at home.

Of course they are going to put what is perceived as the best part of the ship where people have to pay more money to be there. I actually prefer the back of the ship! And Princess is (finally in my eyes) catching up with everyone else. The new Sun Class ships now have a suite deck area, dinning room, and lounge. And they are at the back of the ship where I like to be!!

Another lost benefit of platinum/elites is the elimination of the preferred line at check in. We could avoid the long line outside before getting in the terminal. Another reason we look to Celebrity first nowadays.

In a VERY general summary, it replaces the card you used to get that you would charge drinks, chips, shops to as well as open your cabin door. There is a whole section of the Princess website that explains it. There are a ton more features but I’ll let you do your own research

Go to the sun thread. They talk about it there. There’s even a rumor that the first few sailings won’t have it ready until they get on the ship. You need a lot of patience when you book an early sailing of a new class of ship. Everything is new. Rolling out a 3rd or 4th version of a ship class is mostly a cookie cutter operation. But Princess has never had a specific restaurant for suites nor one for “reserved class”. Plus the MDR is like nothing Princess has ever done. They are starting from scratch here. The excitement of being the first ones on a new design comes with frustrations of being on a new design.

Then yeah, no chance of getting a reservation. First it’s advertised as a 20 day cruise and then there are those that are doing a true B2B.

This wasn’t a “live from”. He didn’t knowingly have Covid and continue his cruise. He had it when he returned. (Sorry all, I think this poster thought differently)

There is no such thing as “booking before you board”. You most likely won’t get spaces for your first leg and will absolutely get reservations for your second. It has nothing to do with whether you book them as two 10 day segments or one 20 day segment. It’s when the reservations are available on the ship.

What ship are you on? Grand class ships have a much larger sanctuary so being platinum will probably get you loungers the first week. If it’s a Royal class ship then I would be very surprised if they weren’t already sold out by the time you got there. And that’s because of all the B2Bs from the week before your first segment. And guess what, now you’ll be those B2Bs on your second segment getting all those reservations. So good luck for the first week and you are assured for the second. Again, ship name will help.

I started to put in my answer "Just relax and wait and see" and then I looked in the mirror!! Can't give advice that I can't follow myself!! 🙂

We really can't know what is going on and whether it will be on time. But the complete silence from Princess (and their marketing department) on rolling out this brand new ship design is utterly baffling. And leading to all this worry.

I imagine it could be any dinning room and could possibly change depending on the cruise. You might need to wait until on the ship.

I’m glad you were able to cut the traffic line too as that was a cluster for us when we did it. Glad they are improving the process.

Yeah, no need for the Go Lounge then.

Nobody on any cruise in any cabin on the Sun Princess are able to book specialty dinning yet. Right after they announced the Love dinning experience some people were able to book it. But it was a computer glitch as almost the next day they took down that ability and those that had made reservation didn’t have them anymore. Keep following this thread because as soon as people are able to again, someone will post it here.

It would not be worth it for you. You would be going backwards.

I see what you did there!! 🤪

They’ve cut back so many elite perks that I can even tell what’s left! It’s almost useless to me on cruises lately! We don’t even have the satisfaction of showing off our black cards at the bar anymore! 🤪😝😛