Sea Hag

Wow! That's too bad you had to wait. We were able to walk right in every time - breakfast, lunch or dinner. I guess we hit it lucky.

Discovery Princess, as in the title. We were really pleased with the additional options. 🙂

One thing I would add here is that if you're sitting there for a while with the chat window up and waiting for the person on the other side to return, keep waggling the chat window. Click in and out of the input box. Scroll if you can. I've had live chat windows on other sites time out on me due to inactivity, and I don't ever want to have that happen again. I frankly don't know what the timeout is on Princess' chat window, and I don't want to find out.

Didn't work for me either - I went through "find cruises" and got there.

That's interesting. I wish they had deckplans up, but they don't.

And it's way better than canned.

We only did this once, on NCL. It was a package deal for a 10 day circle island Hawaii cruise that was supposed to go to Fanning Island (we never made it there, another story). It was very inexpensive, but we had no control over our flights. Flight out was fine, but we really hated the trip back. That was a redeye that got into LAX at ridiculous-early-oclock. We couldn't even get coffee to tide us over a two hour layover until the flight to San Jose. I would never do this again without having control over what flights we got.

Tofu isn't popular with everybody, but it is with me. I'm no vegetarian, but I've had some really tasty tofu preparations on Princess ships. Last cruise, I got an appetizer that was breaded, fried tofu with some salad components and terriyaki. Yummy.

I like mine any old time of the day! 😀

Last week, when we were flying out of Seattle, the crowds and lines were incredibly long and chaotic. I know that TSA Pre isn't a total magic bullet, but we decided anything that might help would be worth doing. We set up our appointments at SMF for yesterday morning and got processed. We had our acceptance and numbers just before noon today. I wasn't expecting it to be nearly that quick. Honestly, the hardest part of all this was the fact that my fingers just didn't want to provide fingerprints. The nice lady had to keep doing them and then redoing them. Very happy with the turnaround, and I'm hoping it helps some.

Oh, the humanity! 😂

I have a large stainless steel water bottle that I call "sippy cup." Sippy cup goes everywhere with me. FYI for another trip when you go to Skagway, there's a nice little hiking trail section over past the airport. You head for the airport and go across a bridge over the river to get to it. Easy trails.

Kirkland chocolate covered raisins are really, really good. We bought them only once and vowed never again after neither of us could stop eating them. I hear you on the poundage. Over the years, I've mostly avoided gaining but this time I came back three pounds up. This is three pounds that I can't afford!

We've only used EZAir once, and that was on our most recent cruise. No problems at all. This was a round trip Seattle sailed, where we flew out on Alaska and back on Delta. If you're flying back from Seattle and have Princess transfers, I think Delta is the way to go. They have a check in/baggage drop right down in the drop off area so you only need to shlep your bags a very short distance, rather than down the hall, up the elevator, across the walkway and through the airport. I'm editing this to add the fact that our 11:15 am flight was outside allowable times for Port Valet. So we were very happy to be on Delta on miss all that luggage shlepping through the airport.

I saw one sugar free on the Discovery last week. I think it was vanilla, but I'm not really sure. I wouldn't count on there being any, since at least one cruise I asked and was told they didn't have any.

We'd never been to Icy Straight Point before, so we enjoyed the stop there last week very much. Highlights were the mountain gondola and the loop walk with about a dozen other folks and a bear guard with a rifle. No bears showed up.

We just returned from the 8/21 sailing on the Discovery, and we had a fantastic cruise. Admittedly, the wifi wasn't as good as what we have at home, but I didn't expect it to be. It worked fine for what I wanted it for. Medallion also worked fine for what we used it for. We're elite, and the lotion in the bathroom was nice. Don't know if it was special or not. Nearly all the food we had was very good, and some things were extra very good. There were a few items that were just okay, but most were much better than that. I have a pretty good stack of tote bags, so I don't care if I get one or not. I never ate the pillow chocolates anyhow, but I suppose my DH, the pillow-chocolate-eater, might have missed them. My opinion of our cruise last week is that it was as good as any cruise we've ever done on Princess.

We do too. Much nicer. 😀

My Android is a Samsung too, and it's the best cellphone I've ever had.

The app works great on my Android.

I suppose they're marketing to those of us who can't add.

I just checked, and I can't purchase on my Android either. This irritates me no end. I was able to purchase in advance of our cruise last week and got the 50% discount from the get-go. It's bad enough that so many people have had so many problems, but for something that was working to no longer be working is really outside of enough.

Its the Skagway dining room, on deck 6 midship that's open.

It's worth the extra price for us for two primary reasons and one less important reason. First, my DH has a very low tolerance for standing in lines, and CC takes care of that. Second, our very favorite cabins are CC on the Royal Class ships. Those two items definitely make it worth it for us. Another less important reason is that we prefer to eat all the meals we can in the MDR, and CC certainly makes that more pleasant for us.

Could you tell where the noise was coming from? I looked at drag decks on Cruise Deckplans, and I'm not sure. You might have been over the Crown Grill kitchen, but I can't tell. Emerald deck seems out of scale on drag decks.