grannylaw

The Horizon Court (I forgot what it’s called on the Royal) has tables & windows so you can watch the scenery and be comfortable.  The Piazza has lots of seating & usually some sort of entertainment.  Most of the public areas have seating and some near a window.  

Good luck & have fun on your cruise.  

We always bought the travel insurance offered by Princess. In 2016, day 2 of a 12 day cruise, I fell as I was riding my mobility scooter up the gang plank. I spent 27 in an Irish hospital before they decided they couldn’t do anything for me and I needed to be airlifted home. It cost us $62k for that flight. I don’t know what we would’ve done without the insurance. Get the insurance.

Have you read that the evacuation must be coordinated by an agent of the insurance? I have looked more closely and have found this the case in almost all evacuation policies. Have you ever known anyone who was evacuated and how this worked? Thank you.

I had to be evacuated from Ireland due to a nasty fall. We had the cruise line’s travel insurance with the $50k limit. I needed to be on a gurney the whole trip & accompanied by a nurse & respiratory therapist. The total evacuation was $62,500 savings & Go Fund Me helped with the difference. Yes, everything had to coordinated with an insurance agent. Frustrating but doable. Hardest part was working with the Irish health care system. It took days for their doctor to coordinate with the insurance agent & to complete the necessary forms.

While on a British Isles cruise I fell and shattered my acetabulum (hip socket) & broke my pelvis. We had purchased travel insurance through Princess. The hospitals in Ireland declined to perform the necessary surgery & I could not "stand, pivot, & sit", a requirement of commercial airlines, to get home to the U.S. Even though the medical evacuation insurance was $50k we were underinsured -- my flight home was $62k, which we had to pay the $12k up front. The $62k was a discount because they had just flown a passenger from the US to U.K. & didn't want to fly back empty. We've learned our lesson and will buy specific med-evac insurance next time.

Thank you for posting all about your cruise. We were booked on the cruise last July 31 2016. My dream cruise because of the Tattoo! We skipped getting off in Guernsey -- too tired. We got off in Cobh for Cork. We went to the Blarney Woolen Mills store -- lots of fun stuff.

I could've spent all of my spending money there & I should have. While getting back onto the ship my mobility scooter crashed & I fell & shattered my hip & broke my pelvis. I spent 27 days between Cork & Dublin as they decided whether or not to operate.

I want to go back in 2019 for our 50th anniversary.

Enjoy your cruise & keep posting so I can relive it through you.

Just came off the Emerald 3 weeks ago and they did provide me with a shower chair. We called and asked for it. They also provided me with a toilet seat that sat on top of the regular toilet seat & it had arms on it.

We were in a balcony cabin.

Get the insurance, please. I had the unfortunate experience of falling in Cork, Ireland and sustained a complex fracture of my hip & fracture of the pelvis. The ball of the hip went all of the way through the socket & shattered. I wish we had known about Medjet! I spent 27 days in Ireland while they tried to figure out the best course of action. They finally decided to release me back to the US (other than pain meds no medical treatment received) for treatment. We found an air ambulance who took me back home but we had to pay $12k out of pocket that was in excess of our travel insurance. And that $12k had to be paid before they loaded me on the plane. When I got to my hospital, I underwent an 11 hour surgery to repair the damage -- some caused by the lack of treatment, I.e. Traction.

I never thought anything bad would happen to me but the Irish leprechauns thought differently.

We had the same thing happen & called Princess yesterday. Basically, "tough luck". We asked if we could get a Welcome Back cruise credit -- nope. We went ahead & canceled our reservation because the cruise is more than a year away and we'll look for another sale.

Buy the travel insurance! Last year we were on day 2 of a 12-day British Isles cruise. I crashed my motorized scooter on the gang plank returning to the ship after our shore excursion. I shattered, not fractured, my left hip and fractured my pelvis. I spent 27 days in Irish hospitals as they tried to decide what they wanted to do. It was finally decided to return me to the states on a private air ambulance -- seventy two thousand dollars and travel insurance only paid fifty thousand dollars, the rest was paid from a ******** account our children started and retirement account.

I don't know what we would've done without our travel insurance. Our experience has been a lesson for all of our traveling friends and family to always buy travel insurance.

Does Princess have shower chairs available? Will they fit in the showers in the BE balcony rooms on the Emerald Princess?

Thank you

Robyn

We had the upsell to a suite on our last 2 cruises & we were told by the Captain's Circle Host we were NOT eligible for the double cruise credits. We still enjoyed our aft Caribe immensely though.

We were speaking with a gentleman today who works at San Pedro Harbor and he said more than likely the Ruby would be sent to Berth 157 which is the old clock tower. I don't know any more than that.

We were told its only for cruises of 6 days or more.

Last month on the Golden we were dining at the Crown Grill and I asked if I could have just a plain green salad with Bleu Cheese and I was told no by the waiter and not very nicely either. He explained that he would have to send someone to the MDR galley and it would throw off the timing. Oh well.

They ran out of lemons on the Regal maiden transatlantic. I thought that was very strange. They also ran out of red shrimp cocktail sauce

We were on this cruise too. I will admit that I was nervous when I saw the kickball group with their "Cruise From Hell" t-shirts but they were a fun group and their costumes were imaginative.

A couple of negative observations. One was the popcorn gatekeeper. It has been our experience on all of our Princess cruises that once the evening MUTS starts that popcorn is available until 11:00 p.m. The server wanted to distribute the popcorn only during movies, when I asked him when this rule was instituted he didn't have an answer for me. Then another server came from a supply room & asked how many bags we wanted & gave us 2 bags that had been previously popped & were cold.

Second, I asked for some blue cheese dressing for my salad while we were dining in the Crown Grill. The server told me that he would have to send his assistant to the MDR to get some blue cheese and it would be a pain. Never mind.

Overall, the cruise was great. We had accepted an upsell to a suite and thoroughly enjoyed it.