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I would defiantly  and have taken my grandchildren on Royal Caribbean.

now we like Princess but for teens I would go with Royal Caribbean. 

a) In many cases a useless exercise. My passport has entry/exit information scattered over 30+ pages in no particular order with many of them very difficult to read due to lack of sufficient ink when stamping or one stamp being placed over another. Someone could easily spend over 20 minutes trying to examine each stamp in my passport to figure out where I have been when and still not have figured out every stamp.

b) The entry and exit stamps do not tell the entire story. For example, I could have entered the EU in France and exited it in Germany and that is what the passport stamps would show. But while in the EU I could have traveled in northern Italy and nothing in the passport would

when they scan your passport it shows exactly where you have been although you are right about being in Europe it will only show your entry and exit. I would hope that

people would be honest when the customs ask you if you travelled to the infected 

areas you would answer honestly

We are booked on the Ruby Feb 2021 out of San Fran

The ship continues on to Copenhagen.  You can of course book and get off at

St Petersburg. You will have to get your own visa.  I would imagine most passengers will continue on to Copenhagen. 
we are doing this in August. We have a tour from Moscow to St Petersburg where we board the Sky to do the transatlantic to NYC.

Some information for you.  You can not use Ezair through the cruise line as they have no

contract in Russia for air.

They only will release a certain amount of cabins for each debarkation port this has caused problems for our group to take advantage of any price drops or sales that

come up. Our part of the t/a has continued to increase in price where the passengers

boarding in Copenhagen princes have gone down considerably. Now we are a group of 32. 
make sure you have a good travel agent.

39 minutes ago, chamima said:

 

 

As I said - I emailed my TA and asked those exact questions.

She answered that this promo is an "add-on". We have 3 for Free so will "add-on" $25/pp/pd.

We booked originally with no perks. Got the sip and sail put on with a increase of approx

$250.00 pp.  if I am reading this right to put the gratuity and wifi on it will be $25.00 pp per day. Or in our case $32.50 Canadian =$617.50 for 19 days probably does work out for

us.

18 hours ago, MsSoCalCruiser said:

 I will admit that I haven’t read this entire thread and I started from the back but can someone please explain this to me. 

I have just read your thread.  Thank you very much it is very detailed about the ship and your pictures are awsome.  Glad you enjoyed your voyage and sory your weather was not better.

we will be on the t/a next August and hopefully we will enjoy it as much as you have.

7 minutes ago, gospelle said:

My cruise goes, for example, from Charlottetown PEI to Sydney NS. How does leave the country?

It is the policy of the Cruise line not to allow you to bring it onboard.  While you

are on their ship you have to abide by their rules. You can go on and on about this

but the answer is no. If you do not like the answer then take a land tour to the East Coast instead of a cruise.  Enough already and I live in Canada.

2 hours ago, mandranuc said:

 I don't want to be too controversial here but you are about to get Elite yet have not travelled Princess for 10 years - I am just a little perplexed that this is "loyalty"??. Personally I think the Carnival system is wrong (not your fault) and perhaps unfair. 

As I said I have not travelled with Princess cruise line for 10 years but I have cruised 14 

cruises with Princess some of them 10 day and 15 days cruises. I have also been

Mainly travelling on  Cunard the last one being 56 days and Holland American that last one being 29days. They are under the Carmival unbrella so my Loyalty should not be

be questioned.

my question was is the benefits from platinum to elite really worth me booking another

cruise before our upcoming 19 day transatlantic? 

Thank you for all the replies.

 I was just wondering if it was worth booking another cruise to get to the Elite level for the transatlantic cruise we have booked.  

We live in Canada so it not easy for us to jump on a three day cruise even going

on a seven day cruise doe not make make sense.  we are excited about the 

cruise we have booked on the Sky Princess. Whether we are Elite or not I am sure

we will have the best of times.

we have not sailed with Princess for 10 years. No reason but we are planning a trip in August 2020

beacause of the intinery. My question we need one more credit to become Elite and are the benefits

really much different. Sorry if this has been covered before. 

1 minute ago, Coral said:

I am not so sure and would not let her off the hook. Her posts on this board did not make her look good. I would definitely not be involved with her again.

Thank you Coral as I said you live and learn.  The message I am trying to get out is

people have to be careful when they join a group cruise whether it is your best friend or

a neighbour. 😘😘😘😘

We are also booked on one of these group cruises.  We are like the other person

paying top $$$$ for the cruise with the promise of being able to take advantage

of promotions and price reductions. When I check other web sites the price is comparable to what we are paying so to me the t/a did not give us any deal to book with them.

 Like the op so far we havebeen unable to take advantage of any promotions.

 if you cancel and book with Princess you loose the ability to join the group for functions. But you can take advantage of their promotions. 

I am sure the leader of our group was as us not informed of all the rules of the booking from the t/a so no blame there.

so you live and learn people.  We have cruised 100+ and still learning.

8 minutes ago, pms4104 said:

I don't believe Princess will permit individuals to hold more than one booking on the same voyage.  

Why.  I have held two bookings both with different T/A.  

Yes you can have two duplicate cabins booked.

Thank you.

Yes I realize they will be in US but if you do not have OBC you gratuities and other

purchases will be at the new rate?  Sorry if I am repeating myself.

19 hours ago, canadarocks said:

Ouch indeed. Glad I've got my 2020 cruises already booked. 

If you have future cruises booked does that mean when you add to your cruise

like shore excursions, specialty dinning do you get the rate you booked or the new rate?

Thank you all for you input and suggestions on this topic.  You all have been a great source of information. I think I understand this booking now. I assumed when we all made our own booking with the travel agent that we were individual bookings and we would be grouped by our booking numbers just like when I have gone before with friends. I misunderstood we were booked as a one entity.

i beleive our transatlantic cruise is divided into five countries that you can board and Princess has assigned so many cabins for each boarding port. Our embarking Port has so many cabins assigned to it and I beleive we have used up most of them.

i also didn't realize I had to go through our group leader to change anything on my booking. Apparently because of the closed group and the lack of space in my category I would have to cancel and rebook causing me to loose the cabin. I would then be put on a guarantee  and have to take whatever cabin is available when Princess assigns them. I have never came across this before. In fact I was shocked.

i have no interest who gets what for booking the cabins I just have never came accross this problem of not being able to take avantages of promotions and price deductions if they occur when booking so far in advance.

 We are paying a premium price for this transatlantic cruise. 

I put it out here to get advice on how to handle my booking quietly without causing any trouble within the group.

I am beginning to understand this booking. I knew it was a group booking but

not a private booking. I am a seasoned cruiser 100+ and have travelled on many cruises with a bunch of people.

the t/a and now the group leader says we will have amenities but they

wont devulge what they are.  Of course I don't want to upset the apple cart

and we add excited to go but I also don't want to lay top but with no perks.

So does that máke us ineligible for any other promotions because of this private

group?

Ok. Thanks.

It's a group of neighbours that travel together.  This is the first time I've joined them.

so should I cancel and go with the cruise line?  Seems to be

something I am missing.

Well it makes no sense to me either. The T/A did mention when I asked about transfering my booking that the group could loose some of the amenities but

would not alaborate on what the amenities were.  Maybe she didn't want to refare everyone.

I am apparently booked in a Group booking. I am going with other people but I made my own booking with the t/a they were using. There are 32 of us. So that seems to be the problem. 

i now have two bookings one with the t/a and the cabin I want

one with Princess in a guarantee cabin with the perks. No cabins left in the category.

i have asked Princess if I could transfer the one from the t/a to them but that cant

happen.v

its not until August next year so I am waiting it out