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Surely the technology exists to load coffee card details onto your cruise card to save carrying an increasingly battered piece of card around.

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The comment on the coffee card cracked me up :D, on my last cruise, only two week ago, I had to cover my coffee card with clear packing tap since it was falling apart. Please Princess add some more technology to simple things.

they don't offer discounts multiple excursion, or any excursion packages, although it's a great idea. The excursion are out sourced

When you board talk to the maitre d as soon as possible, go to to him personally, don't use the dining phone line.

There are some red sauce items in Sabatini. But, that shouldn't make a difference, you don't need to even wear a sport jacket. Just nice dressy casual clothes is fine, nice pants and shirt.

Great, thanks, I'll check it out.

I can't find the link - forum with photos on Princess obstructed cabins. If someone can post it I would greatly appreciate it.

We booked a later flight home, often we rushed to get our flight, now our flight is at 3 pm. But, for many, it's too late to change flights.

Some clarification - the various packages are for groups, the information below (one package) is only on Sapphire and Star and may become available on all ships in sping of 2014.

Princess Cruises has begun testing their “All Inclusive Beverage Package” on a ship wide basis aboard the Star Princess and the Sapphire Princess.

The newly available beverage package will cost guests $49 a day with gratuities not included. The package can be used throughout the ship’s bars, restaurants, and lounges and can be used for all cocktails and spirits less than $10, all glasses of wine and beer less than $10, soda, shakes, coffee, tea, espresso, and other non-alcoholic drinks. Guests who purchase the package also receive a 40% discount on any bottled wine less than $100 and free food items included with the coffee card.

The new beverage package can be purchased on any 7 night or longer sailing aboard the Star or Sapphire Princess during the trial. Guests sailing with a cabin mate who has purchased the package will be required to also purchase the beverage package. Minors sailing with an adult in the same cabin will be required to purchase the Unlimited Soda & More Package.

The All Inclusive Beverage Package was previously only available to groups sailing on Princess with more than 30 guests.

According to a Princess spokesperson, if the program is successful on the trial ships, Princess will roll out the program to the entire Princess fleet by Spring 2014.

Forgot to mention on Star Princess and Sapphire Princess.

I have been confused by all the new beverage packages, see below, it cleared it up for me.

http://www.princess.com/cruise_vacation_planning/groups/Group%20Bar%20&%20Beverage%20Packages.pdf

None of these are good for us, we don't drink enough :D

Try these numbers:

(661) 753-0000

In Florida

(954) 522-3156

I was on the Crown Princess in March of 2009 and the Acapella Doo-Wop Group named Spank was perfoming at the Piaza daily, they were awesome. We even bought their CD and stayed a few times to talk to them. Yes, we need more groups like these.

You can call Princess and let them know. My personalizer was messed up and they corrected it all and very quickly while I was on the phone with them.

I guess it's like the food, very subjective, Jean Paul Musiu is my least favorite, he always seemed to be "lost" and not friendly at all. I'm glad he's not going to be on my next cruise.

I still feel that Princess should reward per number of days sailed not number of trips. We have people on the west coast who have taken 3 - 5 day trips and got to Elite quickly. We fly to cruise, so when we do, we try and take 10 days cruises. For cruisers like us to get to Elite takes a while, especially if you don't cruise more than once a year.

3:37 p.m. EST) -- Princess Cruises will add a promenade deck, as well as an aft pool on its newest ship, Regal Princess, scheduled to launch in spring 2014.

Though Regal Princess will essentially be a twin to Royal Princess, the cruise line confirmed that it is tweaking Regal's design after receiving complaints from passengers. In particular, cruisers are unhappy that Royal doesn't have a promenade deck or an aft pool.

"Designing a prototype ship three years out is not an exact science and there are always opportunities to improve upon the original concepts based on real operational experience," a Princess Cruises spokeswoman told Cruise Critic.

The aft pool will be located in an area used for additional deck space on Royal. Royal will be retrofitted with the pool during its first dry dock.

Princess also will make the Deck 7 promenade accessible to passengers on Regal so they can walk the length of the

You can add anything you want on the breakfast room service card, but not always guarantee that you'll get all. We do it often and usually just scrambled eggs, sometimes we get and sometimes we're notified that they couldn't do. Often it's not hot enough for us. You can try pancakes,etc. and you may get lucky. But often yogurts and sliced cheeses are easier to get.

They don't tell you since they don't want you to cancel and they don't have to.

What I do is just Google my ship, date of cruising and look up if any group is on my ship. I found a few in the past but they were small groups and didn't change my plans.

I would also suggest that you check TripAdvisor.com, great suggestions there

My vote for the Coral as well, best ship for any itinerary, for Alaska the viewing areas are great from that ship

I'm personally unhappy with the balcony size on the Royal, but I'm sure Princess did some major studies before designing this ship and decided that the balconies were not used enough and not put in the extra expense in building bigger ones. As an example, when we were on the Alaska cruise and cruised College Fjords and Glacier Bay, we were on Baja and could see down many floors and balconiess and notice how many balconies were not even used. Same with many other cruises, I think most people just come out and stand to look as sailaways, etc. and then leave. We use the balcony extensively, but I have a feeling we're in the minority.

Pia, I always enjoy reading your live froms on these forums. Giuseppe Franchina was our Maitr' D' when we sailed the Coral through the Panama Canal a few years ago. I thought he was the "ultimate host", just knew how to interact with all so graciously. Enjoy

I love the Terrace Pool, aft on deck 12 and just above it the outdoor lounge outside the One5 club. Great lounging areas. Also, the desserts in the International Cafe on deck 5

Often the noise on Plaza deck is the stabilizers, especially if there are rough seas. We had terrible stabilizer noise on Plaza deck near the art gallery on the Star, but then cruised on the Coral also on Plaza deck, but this time forward-center and had no noise, nothing, it was great.

Tony Draper will be our captain on the Emerald, sailing Jan. 26th, will be interesting if we can meet him