BuckeyeMark

Can you confirm that masking has been made MANDATORY? Not asking if people are doing it - just has the order changed from recommended to MANDATORY. Princess officials telling me that no ships other than the Alaska ships have mandatory masking. I thought Emerald had made it mandatory. Can you confirm? Mandatory or recommended?

This thread has wandered a bit ... is there someone ON THE EMERALD RIGHT NOW - JUNE 14 - that can verify that masks are mandatory as of today, June 14?

We are now holding you 100% accountable for all weather and waves from this day forward ... LOL! These are really great reviews. You are doing a great job writing this up. I think you should poll Cruise Critic and see where folks need some travel info and reviews and then book a cruise there. Everyone would read it!

There is a thread on this here:

This is big news for us passengers but think of the people Princess is having to deploy to test everyone, process the tests, etc and the people they are using to look after folks who are quarantined on land after a cruise. Maybe some of those people can start answering the phones and ticketing EZ Air! LOL

That's just huge!!!

Traveling with a group on a "British Isles cruise" and one of the folks wants to know about pre-paid Visas. Truth is, I don't know much about them here in the USA so I certainly don't know if they'd work overseas. Anybody in the UK (and Ireland and France) knowledgeable about this?

This is just getting better and better (except for the snake part. WOW!).

We're reading along but we need MORE FASTER! What's next?! (checks Cruise Critic for the umpteenth time today to see if updated)

My wife and I are cold all the time... a big help to us on our trips to AK has been Buffs neck gaiters. Light and thin, they can be worn around our neck, pulled up over your ears and mouth or in a pinch can even be a hat. We love'em. No, I don't work for them or get paid by them. But worth checking out. You'd be surprised how much warmer you can be if you zip your coat up AND have something around your neck.

Not to hijack your post but some day I want to do the Denali to Whittier thing ... was this an open air car or were just blowing A/C on you at blizzard levels?

Friend of mine on hold FOR SIX HOURS AND TWENTY MINUTES. EZair for the end of the month to Europe. Reservation completely disappeared - gone. So she just held and held. Finally got someone and got ticketed. WHEW. Say this "if someone else has to call and be put on hold with Princess Air, tell them not to hang up when the music stops. The first princess lady mentioned that she was transferring me to the AIR department that there might be some silence when I was transferred. I didn't notice anything right away but about 40 minutes before the second lady answered (about 4 hours after being transferred), the music stopped and I could still hear some noise if I turned the volume up real loud. I remembered what the first lady mentioned so I stayed on the line. Glad I didn't hang up."

My itinerary DOES include Glasgow so I was wondering if you could just back up and go there after all? LOL Seriously, your reports are really really good. Appreciate them so much!

Seems like a day ago you were bundled up like an eskimo... now you're in short sleeves! WOW!

I'll be traveling later with some friends who are ... well ... more senior. They don't want to mess with the Medallion app. Can I tell them that once they get on the ship - and our TA says she can get them Ocean Ready - they don't need to worry about any app? Put your phone in the stateroom safe and turn it off. No need for it unless you want to order yourself some food/drink, find someone on the ship, text someone etc. But for getting off the boat on port days and getting into your room - if you have the physical Medallion you don't need your phone. Is this correct?

Are these lights in every class of room or just in some rooms - like suites?

This is the info we're here for! How warm is "very warm?" T-shirts and shorts? And how much rain did you see and what'd you wear (or wish you had worn!) to be able to carry on through it?

These posts are making my day! Soooo good. We plan to do the Dublin train too - glad that worked so well for you. Book of the Kells and Dublin castle for us, but I'd sure like to stop and get that donut. Do you recall where that was?

Did you have any kind of kettle or coffee maker in your stateroom? If not, did you happen to see/hear of anyone talking about that they do (or don't) have one? Making coffee is pretty important to some of us!

this times eleventy bazillion. I'm on a Butler excursion and they emphasize punctuality A LOT in their instructions about meeting the bus.

Why did they take your passports?! That kinda would make me nervous...

Your review and write up is just great stuff. Really enjoying reading these!

These reviews and pictures are wonderful. That stained glass window! WOW!

We will be on this ship and this itinerary this summer. Can't wait for more!

I'm headed to the UK this summer as well. Read this for Scottish history: A History Of Scotland Kindle Edition by Neil Oliver Great read. Slow start but it was pretty riveting once the Vikings stopped raiding all the seacoast villages! Enough info there to understand and appreciate what was going on without getting too granular. Would like a recommend for Ireland like that.