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1 hour ago, KT4209 said:

First time on Princess since 1999 and would like to clarify my understanding of the Retreat Pool area. Are the loungers in the Retreat Pool area on Decks 17 and 18 forward free to use, unlike those in The Sanctuary? Is the Retreat Pool area age restricted like The Sanctuary? 

 

I have been doing lots of reading on the Princess Board since booking and thank everyone for sharing the wealth of information.

 

The loungers are the immediate pool area and above are free and are age restricted. 

On 7/10/2024 at 9:10 AM, shopgirl151 said:

I know the 15 drink limit is for alcoholic drinks.  However I have seen many Facebook posts from people currently on cruises that the bottled water and cans of soda were being counted towards the 15? 

 

Anyone experience this lately? 

 

Thanks

No

What a foobar from Princess 😀

33 minutes ago, BamaVol said:

To me, it looks like Plus is free because you were already quoted a Plus fare which includes the package.

 

what puzzles me is the crossed out $93.  Shouldn’t that be $60? Was there an offer to upgrade to Premier for $20?

They fake values of items all the time.  

15 minutes ago, 555 said:

Now that I can't believe.

They've spent to much money to turn back now.

How is it even possible that you can go all the way through from thought to construction and not realize how bad an idea something is.  Lots of people should be fired over this new class of ship. 

3 hours ago, 555 said:

Either way you would still have to put on some clothing to eat at the buffet. I'm sure we won't be alone. 

Sorry, guess I wasn't clear on what i meant.  It's one thing to walk from the pool area to the buffet,  but to have to get on an elevator to go to the buffet in the middle of the ship, then back seems like a lot of effort. 

And people think getting up and going somewhere makes you a chair hog now, can't imagine what that might be like on that ship.

4 hours ago, Sox Fan Cruiser said:

I loved this ship!  It was a great cruise with so many special crew.  And I didn't miss Park19 at all.  In fact when they were testing the glider track it was very annoying to listen to it while enjoying my cocktail in the Sanctuary.  🤪

How do people like the buffet being midship?  I guess since we are pool area people, having the buffet nearby was really nice.  Having to get dressed to get on an elevator to go find something doesn't sound very appealing to me at all. 

6 minutes ago, Rick&Jeannie said:

It's really not deceptive practice...just inept website programming. As far as I know Plus has never been offered for free.

It does get offered for "free", when it's included in the other pricing.  You see this from some of the big box retailers, but it's really not free.

1 hour ago, Sox Fan Cruiser said:

Do not plan on Park19 working in two weeks. They have completely taken any mention about it off the website. 
 

I still don’t understand people’s excitement about this space. You have a ropes course that would probably take about 20 minutes to complete and the silly glider that occupies about 10 minutes time. And people are basing their entire cruise experience on that?

Princess trying to be Carnival and RC.  Avoid this ship like me.

On 6/21/2024 at 9:26 PM, mtnesterz said:

Do you happen to recall if prices were adjusted upward during the sale period, nullifying the OBC, or was this a bona fide sale? 

Normally they just fluctuate prices and obc to make it seem like a sale.  They don't give much away for nothing anymore.

3 hours ago, Kit6 said:

agree that it’s poor form to not have an adult only area including in regular cruise fare.

This is us. Will not be on this ship or any other without an adults only pool and lounge area 

3 hours ago, TM said:

IMHO Princess is not doing this because they value their clients.  These packages are clearly moneymakers for the cruise line.  And what is the big incentive to getting to an elite level?  Oh yeah, free laundry so Princess can shrink my clothes.  Or a mini-bar set-up which probably costs the cruise line at most $20 because of their bulk buying capability.  I got to elite the hard way doing 25+ cruises with 275 sea days.  I appreciate the mini-bar setup but that's about the only elite benefit I use except maybe for priority tender disembarkation.

Agree 100%

8 hours ago, ebeluga said:

I guess they really want to push those packages. Next thing they will do is to eliminate more Elite benefits as people are accelerated into the tier!

That's exactly what will happen.  Not that there are many elite benefits left anyway.

I'm surprised they haven't already moved to $75 and $95

They are curtained, so maybe not completely out of the sun.

The Regal also has "free" seating bear the pool on both sides that are pergola style and can provide shade depending on the sun's position

Can't imagine they would do this with the smokers casino money going elsewhere

29 minutes ago, threebluestars said:

Ugh, I hate Diet Coke, I am really hoping there will be Coke Zero on the Regal Princess British Isles this fall.

 

Or ANY zero drink at this point.

 

Aside from Diet Coke, do they carry any other diet pops?

No idea if they will have it on UK cruises, but not on one's out of FLL this spring.   Brought our own.

2 hours ago, NMTraveller said:

My plan was to purchase date/times for the sanctuary.  I have heard that this books up early?

Have been trampled by people rushing to the Sanctuary.   Princess should fix this, but yes,  board as soon as possible and go straight there and see if there is availability.

2 hours ago, NMTraveller said:

What is the best way to get an early check in time?  Do the times become available on some date/time and the first ones to select them get the early times?

Check in times are simply suggestions. Go whenever you are ready

Is this a Canadian only sale?

21 minutes ago, dog said:

My offer was for a BD category standard fare, 2 adults. 15 day cruise.

They gave each of us $450 US OBC=$900 per cabin.& coupon books.

 

Same base fare as the Princess website.

 

Princess did not give us any OBC and still hasn’t returned my FCD from the Star cruise they canceled in April.

 

Thank you.  I'm just making sure I'm looking in the right place.  

17 hours ago, dog said:

It did not look like the packages were that good of a deal for my cruise- and the perks wouldn’t be needs, so I am good with standard and !900 OBC

I'm just trying to understand what I'm reading on that site.  It looks like for a standard fare on a 7 day cruise, you can get say $50 OBC, plus $20/pp/pd OBC for the 7 days,which would be $280.  

That's not a bad deal, and better than I normally get booking with Princess or my own TA.  

The only downside is a non refundable deposit?

On 6/4/2024 at 9:59 AM, Wishing on a star said:

Are you referring about the annual 3 Day Sale by the one big agency??

Or is Princess also going to be running a similar deal?

Your description sounds like the one annual 3 Day Sale....  Don't know why Princess would also have a similar offer at the same time.

Is there no thread on this 3 day sale?

15 hours ago, upwarduk said:

Probably a price rise, so that the Sale will show a price drop.😱

Yep, "sales" should always be in quotes.  

3 hours ago, jbinbi said:

but how much do you have to gamble per year to get this?

Enough for Princess to give you the room for free plus some.