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geoherb

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  • Favorite Cruise Line(s)
    Princess, Holland America, Celebrity
  • Favorite Cruise Destination Or Port of Call
    Caribbean

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  1. It's sad. There's no way to fall off a balcony under ordinary circumstances. One has to be fooling around, jump, or be pushed. A friend of mine in college used to climb around on the outside of the balcony rail of our dorm. It scared me to see her doing that, but kids don't realize how dangerous such stunts can be.
  2. This is the first time I've heard of a major cruise line bumping people involuntarily since the Carnival debacle out of Baltimore several years ago. Usually the cruise lines will keep upping the offers to people until they free up enough cabins. For example, we once received an offer from Princess to cancel our cruise and receive a free equivalent cruise two or three months later along with the cruise fare we paid as refundable onboard credit. We were already on the ship before we knew about the offer--and could not have taken them up on it because of our vacation schedule. But we heard from people on our roll call who did.
  3. Will NCL allow a bottle of liquor to be brought on the ship at embarkation and store it until the end of the cruise? It doesn't look like it on the FAQ page. The cruise leaves from Iceland.
  4. Here's the Patter from a sea day on our transatlantic cruise in 2019. There were lots of activities. They offered the pop choir, pennywhistle lessons, trivias, a book club, lectures, and a wide variety of other activities. I enjoyed having the teen center open occasionally to play skeeball. There weren't many teens on that cruise. Someone on our Cruise Critic roll call organized a separate book club. We read Where the Crawdads Sing and Dan Brown's Origin. The a large part of the plot of the latter book takes place in Bilbao, one of the ports on the cruise.
  5. Here's a link to the list of prizes that lists this experience: https://www.princess.com/cruise-deals-promotions/plus-premier-cruise-packages/princess-prizes-terms-and-conditions/
  6. One of the prizes listed on the Princess website for Princess Prizes is "Chef's Ultimate Pizza Making Experience." Has anyone here won it and can describe it for us? Is it something that people not playing for prizes can purchase on board?
  7. On my last cruise, the Love Boat Dream varied from night to night. I never ordered one, but several of my tablemates did from time to time. The Pistachio Dome is not what it used to be either. Apparently Princess severed its relationship with Norman Love.
  8. 1. Breakfast at Sabatini's 2. Large room & large balcony 3. Specialty dining first night 4. Concierge Lounge and helpful Concierge 5. Laundry service 6. Club/reserve class dining 7. Bottled waters refreshed each day 8. MDR food as room service (breakfast, lunch, & dinner) 9. Fruit bowl that has fresh fruit each day
  9. When we did our cruise tour, we saved a lot of money by not having the meal plan. There are casual options available at each of the lodges in addition to a fine dining restaurant. Back then, Princess posted the menus with prices online. I don't see them now on the official Princess Lodges website, but Open Table has some available. They may be out of date, but here's one example for Fannie Q's Saloon at the Denali Princess Lodge: https://www.opentable.com/r/fannie-q-saloon-denali-princess-lodge-denali-national-park
  10. Did you invite her along? Will you now be sharing a cabin? Were you paying double for your cabin or was there a reduced single supplement? Shelly did the math wrong. Solos don't usually pay double for Plus, just for the cabins. If you did get a reduced single supplement, perhaps you should have her book a separate cabin. That way she wouldn't have to have Plus.
  11. I saw go for it and ask for a refund for any days when the internet doesn't work well. On my cruise to Greenland, they automatically refunded people for 10 out of 16 days.
  12. I had to cancel my cruise (November 28, Caribbean Princess) on November 16. Princess automatically refunded the port fees to my credit card. I had DH's doctor fill out Aon's form. I submitted it and the other required proof on November 28. I received an email three days later saying my claim had been approved and that Aon would be issuing a check within the next two business days. I received it December 5, one week after submitting the claim.
  13. I booked Plus on my February cruise when it was $40 a day. I did not book Plus on my 16-day cruise in August. I did the math. Princess also wanted to charge me more than the $50 per day. Back then, the price varied when booking last-minute cruises. I ended up spending less than $80 on drinks. I had my minibar beers (after trading in all the liquors) and two bottles of wine and a few free drinks (Captains Circle party, champagne waterfall, and martini demo). I had booked Plus at $50 a day for the Caribbean's 10-day cruise after Thanksgiving to the Panama Canal. I had to cancel that cruise, though. I doubt I will book it at $60 a day unless I get a great fare on a 7-day cruise. I find it disturbing that the price has increased 50% in less than a year.
  14. I noticed the Love Boat Dream varied on my August cruise on the Caribbean. I never ordered it, but I saw it when others ordered it at my table. I did get the pistachio dome. It looked and tasted right.
  15. There wasn't a card with the menu, but the schedule was included on a handout of all the Elite activities on the Caribbean in August. The strange thing was that even the loyalty and events manager said she did not know the menu ahead of time. I thought it was moderately well attended, but we had more than 1,600 Elite and Platinum passengers on that cruise plus any suite passengers who were not already at one of those levels. I did not have the drink package.
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