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It pays to get the platinum princess insurance
Mark_K replied to Knickearth's topic in Princess Cruises
No one really wants it to happen, but a solid minority of cruisers must want to risk it because they don’t buy insurance. -
It pays to get the platinum princess insurance
Mark_K replied to Knickearth's topic in Princess Cruises
With 3,000 or so people on a ship, having one evacuation every 30 or so cruises wouldn’t be far off from odds of 1 in 10,000 of it happening to me. -
It pays to get the platinum princess insurance
Mark_K replied to Knickearth's topic in Princess Cruises
Yes, my insurance covers overseas medical. I read somewhere that your odds of needing a helicopter evacuation are something like once in every 10,000 cruises. I decided to take my chances. -
I didn’t say anything was free (it’s not), my point was up that if you’ve purchased the package, the drinks are just as free as everything else commonly called free.
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A bit smarter in the evening until they’ve had 6-8 pints, then not so much.
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It pays to get the platinum princess insurance
Mark_K replied to Knickearth's topic in Princess Cruises
My SIL, the insurance agent, tells me you shouldn’t buy insurance if you can afford the loss. I wouldn’t be cruising if I couldn’t afford it. -
Just out of curiosity, who’s the “they?” I don’t recall anyone mentioning a tip amount when I called down to have our bags taken to the ship.
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Once you’ve purchased the package, the included drinks are as free as the meals, the shows, the cabin, and everything else on the ship which you also purchased.
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For those who have been waitlisted on excursions
Mark_K replied to MudderBear's topic in Princess Cruises
If you’ve made other, noncancelable, arrangements you should remove yourself from the waitlist. -
Advice on dressing for Transatlantic cruise- Apex in May?
Mark_K replied to Newsgal77's topic in Celebrity Cruises
Whether you should dress for spring depends on where you live. The last several days are going to be spring around UK weather, average high upper 50’s, lows 40’s. Or highs around 15 , lows around 7. -
That might be giving some people too much leeway.
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Speaking from experience, not every SeaPass card works every time.
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MoveUp - Is how much I paid for my current suite factored in?
Mark_K replied to FloroidaCruise's topic in Celebrity Cruises
I’m not at all sure they let inside cabins bid for Iconic suites. In any case, the inside only gets them $10,000, while you get them $7,000, potentially plus, what a person in a SS bids to MoveUp to a CS, plus what a person in a SV bids to MoveUp to a SS, etc. -
Website: “No rooms found for this request”
Mark_K replied to Stem to Stern's topic in Celebrity Cruises
And the Magic 8 Ball says Try Again Later. -
Expiring Passport -Bermuda question. Please help
Mark_K replied to SundanceCarnegie's topic in Celebrity Cruises
Well, if you’re really type A, unless you didn’t change your name when you got married, you should also have your marriage license to tie your drivers license to your birth certificate. Anyway, it couldn’t hurt to take them, but I don’t think there’s any situation where an unexpired passport valid for the duration of the stay would not be acceptable, and just a drivers license and birth certificate would be. -
Jim_Iain - B2B Sydney - Honolulu - Vancouver
Mark_K replied to Jim_Iain's topic in Celebrity Cruises
That one hour-ish flight from Leeds to Rotterdam can’t be that bad. -
Really basic questions about steps to take after PIF
Mark_K replied to MMMCruiser's topic in Celebrity Cruises
PIF - Assuming it means Paid In Full, I learned a new TLA today. -
Jim_Iain - B2B Sydney - Honolulu - Vancouver
Mark_K replied to Jim_Iain's topic in Celebrity Cruises
And the airport is somewhat in between. About an extra 1/2 hour to get to the Rotterdam cruise terminal vs the Amsterdam one. -
Actually, you wouldn’t know unless you successfully purchased a cruise that showed unavailable on the Celebrity website. I do know that either I had incredibly poor timing, or they don’t, since I’ve had the cruise price change between when I logged on and when I tried to purchase.
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They have been known to take a cruise offline if a major repricing is in the works. Some websites take an occasional snapshot of a cruise which they present to customers, but they don’t actually check realtime availability until near the end of the booking process.
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FYI March 7, 2024 - Royal Caribbean International has announced a delay in the debut of its new ship, Star of the Seas, leading to the cancellation of its first two sailings scheduled for 17 & 24 August 2025. Currently under construction at the Meyer Turku shipyard in Finland, the second Icon-Class vessel is now expected to enter revenue service on 31 August 2025. The cruise line expressed regret over the impact on booked guests' vacation plans and provided options such as transferring bookings to the rescheduled inaugural cruise or opting for other ships. Star of the Seas, powered by LNG, will operate year-round from Port Canaveral, offering seven-night cruises to the Caribbean and the Bahamas, with its maiden voyage featuring Western Caribbean destinations.
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Is Smith back in business? I think they ceased operations during Covid. When choosing a hotel keep in mind that Regal Princess uses two different terminals, and sometimes leaves from one and comes back to the other.
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It could just be optimism on their part, but Regent in February, 2026, has a stop scheduled for Lahaina. Their January, 2026, stop is still in Kahului.
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If I’m at a table for 6/8 I feel somewhat obligated to be sociable and engage with the table mates. If I’m at a table for two, even if it’s inches away from the next one, I don’t feel the same obligation.