kywildcatfanone

4 hours ago, Ellipooh said:

Bottles are not allowed on Princess, only sealed cans. 
See the multiple posts including the quote: “Guests are also prohibited from bringing water, sodas and other non- alcoholic beverages on board that are packaged in bottles.

As I stated, "our experience".  Saw many bottles of soft drinks and water not from Princess on the ships.  Even princess has bottles they bring onboard.

5 hours ago, EDDY0827 said:

Don't forget you can resupply during port visits.

Yes, we do buy more if needed in ports.  No issue.

8 hours ago, artvlay said:

Sailing from Ft. Lauderdale and want to know how much soda can be brought onboard. It used to be 12 cans. Does that mean  2 - 12 can boxes if two are traveling?

Our experience is bring all you want.  We typically take 2-4 6 pack of plastic bottled of coke zero or 7up zero.

I bring an extension cord, but many ships have outlets you can use behind the bed with a European adapter.

On 8/7/2023 at 2:06 PM, Bollycats said:

And if so, how is the speed? I may want to stream or download movies but mainly I just want to check my email on my phone using my Norton VPN. 

Should be fine.

This is princess, the cruise line cutting back on spending and reducing loyalty benefits regularly.

Sounds to me like some of you need to be karening to Princess for selling you a ship you do not have access to for your kids and grandkids. 

Pretty inexcusable to me since they are selling it as a family friendly feature, yet it's not available.

I would be furious if  I booked a ship that had this new kids area for my kids or grandkids only to find out that even a couple of months after it's inaugural sailing, the kids area is still not open. Seems like false advertising to me.

8 minutes ago, Kris1981 said:

It is indeed included in base fare on deck 9 but not on lido, very odd 

Man, Princess really is turning into other cruise lines.  It's a shame.  

Oh well, until they modify the older ships,  we still have those.   I hope they get tons of negative feedback on these new ships and realize their loyal customers do not want carnival or royal caribbean 

2 minutes ago, Hobby3333 said:

? Please explain

Huge kids play area, no retreat for adults.  Turning into carnival 

1 hour ago, PacnGoNow said:

Great idea!  If they allow you to bring food OB.  From US ports usually only pre packaged food is permitted.  Would be up to customs that day. 🥴

 

 

We bring food on all the time, never even questioned.

Princess turning into carnival

You do get the laundry, and 10% off in shops (but only on retail price items), and 10% for shore excursions.  You can trade the mini bar in if you don't want what is offered, but unless you are getting more alcohol the value isn't much.  

28 minutes ago, JG&Lcruisingnewbies said:

Thank you for your review and I’m so pleased that on balance you had a good time and looking forward to your August cruise. A relief for me too as I’ll be on that Crusie too. It’s only our second on Princess!

 

i will say I’m a bit disappointed that there were not staff in the buffet asking if you want drinks. It was one of the things on Sky Princess in Norway I loved. We sat down, someone within 10 min came and asked for our drinks order. Less stress trying to find a bar and get it he drink to your table.

 

The other thing was the early shut time of the buffet. It shut at 10.30pm on the sky. I know it doesn’t sound like much but we always waited for our daughter to finish kids club and she’d find us in the buffet & have a late night snack before bed. Maybe it’s silly but I was looking forward to that little routine we had going. The buffet was quieter than the IC and piazza.

 

We’ll work round it of course. So I’m very greatful for the detail you put into your reviews. I’m like you in that if a plan changes, like you had with the trip you missed, I don’t do well. Now I know already, I’m not surprised and know what to expect. Seriously, thank you so much 

 

You can likely be waited on after 10 minutes.  You need to sit nearer the main buffet area. If you sit farther away from where the food is, the longer it takes for someone to walk around.

As to your other comment, while not the same, find the snacks you like before the buffet closes and take them back to your room, then have your snack whenever you want after the buffet closes.  We will sometimes grab items we like and save them for later.

1 hour ago, puzzums said:

Hello,

Does Customer Services on a Princess cruise have the capacity to change larger U.S. bills into small denominations, like $1 or $5 bills, for tipping excursion drivers/guides etc?

 

Thanks

Yes, at guest services

9 minutes ago, Host CJSKIDS said:

I would love that.  Someone had one in the Sanctuary in December on the Sky and the seats right outside of the Sanctuary a few weeks ago had someone that brought it so then we had to listen to their meeting. 

It's getting worse.  Multiple times this week and if you look their way, they get offended.  Princess needs to address it.  Ear buds should be the only way to listen to music or talk on your phone.

9 minutes ago, JamieLogical said:

 

I am fine with that but didn't find any self-service water stations until yesterday. I am guessing there is only one on each side? Would be nice if there were more if you can't count on table service for water.

One of the poor designs by Princess, that they never fix, is only having one drink station on each side of the buffet.   Creates a huge bottleneck, plus the ice machines are always empty and they bring out containers of ice that people use all manner of ways to get ice.  I bring ice with me from the bar when the ice machine isn't working.

They should have at least 2 on each side.

One thing I liked better on Celebrity was multiple drink stations all over the pool decks.

Side comment from me.  I wish princess would ban Bluetooth speakers.  People bring them and blare music and then they yell at the people they are with to talk.  Very disruptive, particularly in the retreat area.

1 hour ago, JamieLogical said:

 

MDR service has been fine. I don't really know what "buffet service" would be other than them offering/bringing drinks, which had definitely not been a thing in our experience so far.

Our experience is they have made the buffet area almost exclusively self service.  There are rarely employees to help with anything  in the table areas.

Probably not supposed to, but doubt they stop you.  They really don't check what is in bags.

2 hours ago, Greg4502 said:

I fly with my cpap, in it's case, inside my carry on. So far, I have not been asked to take it out, but have been asked if it is a cpap. If you want it separate, you can take it on the plane as a carry on. For most airlines, it will not count, as the two bag limit for carry on's.

This is me.  I put my cpap machine in my carryon bag.  Never had security stop me.

But as someone pointed out, it does not count against your carry on bags should you choose to carry I separately.

7 hours ago, CineGraphic said:

 
Thanks to their status match program, every time we sail with Virgin, Pam and I each get $100, free specialty coffees daily, free laundry, upgraded wifi, early boarding. and an invite to a champagne reception.

$50 is a joke.

Status match?  Can you elaborate?  Who are they matching?

2 hours ago, kywildcatfanone said:

Mine fits in the open space under the tabletop nightstand.  I use a European plug adapter for the outlet.

I should add, the European plug goes into the wall, I then plug the light in and my extension cord with US outlets and USB plugs.  Then plug my cpap and other items into it.

5 minutes ago, 1025cruise said:

While that might be a logical thing, I also have never had a problem with the included food offerings. I can't see myself paying $8.50 for a pizza when I can get good enough pizza on Lido.

Yep, this is me.  Lido pizza is good enough to me to not feel the need to pay extra for another on the ship.  Weird to me they made another pizza option when they did.

7 hours ago, Cabunit said:

I am a new CPAP user.  We don’t know if I will be on it long term or not, so we don’t want to invest in a travel CPAP yet.  We think we understand how to use one on a ship with one exception.  We have been in the same cabin as on our next cruise, so we know that the nightstand will not hold the CPAP.  What do you do with the device?
A.  Put it on the floor
B.  Can the ship supply a little table?
C.  Bring something alone, like a cardboard box, to set it on.
D.  Other?
Thank you for any suggestions or information.

Mine fits in the open space under the tabletop nightstand.  I use a European plug adapter for the outlet.