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Old app used to post the dinner menu for the ENTIRE cruise so it made it easier to plan for specialty dining reservations. This new app only posts the menu for that particular day. We had to ask the dining room manager for the week's menu. It was printed on a piece of paper in a tiny font size that you needed a magnifying glass to read.

I agree with @happy42cruise. I’ll just add one other option: if you book a hotel near the airport, you can go back to the airport the day of your cruise and use the Princess EZ Air airport transfer. The hotels closer to the airport will probably be cheaper than ones in the City. or If you book a hotel in the City, park at 80 Francisco instead of parking at the hotel. Then taxi, Uber, or bus back and forth.

We had a similar experience a few months ago. The Princess promotion was ending on a Sunday that we wanted to take advantage of and since our travel agent doesn't work weekends, we had to call and book with Princess directly. Got everything booked with no issues. We just happened to check the website the day after, and saw that our cabin that we had already was AVAILABLE. Called Princess again, and found out that our reservation had been cancelled. No email, no notification, no nothing. If we hadn't gone onto the website and looked, we would have assumed our booking was still good.

Luckily you posted @..., which shows up in my email

We'll see. As @telecheck wrote, I usually post on the particular roll call thread that I work. But we don't get the work requests until a month or two out, depending on when the sergeant posts them. He posted this morning for the June and July cruises. Or if he gets mad at me (twice already), I get dropped out of the rotation...

If you had waited one more week... I'm working the Discovery tomorrow.

We probably sailed past each other twice. I was on the Crown last week on the way south while you were on the Discovery going up north and then vice versa.

Doing a little more research here. My cousin did this cruise last year (doing the itinerary from Post #19). But they only spent the day in San Francisco. So I'm guessing since you're staying overnight in San Francisco, you'll miss Catalina and Santa Barbara too?

If you look at the Princess page for your particular cruise, the map illustration shows you departing Los Angeles, going to San Francisco, and then Santa Barbara, San Diego, and Ensenada before returning home.

I'm here. I believe the question is: Will Discovery stay overnight in San Francisco? We now have Discovery scheduled to arrive on Monday (10/21) and staying overnight before departing on Tuesday (10/22). The port schedule was just updated last week. The original schedule had Discovery here in San Francisco for only one day (Monday 10/21). So my guess is Princess already knew about this particular sailing skipping Catalina and had informed the Port of SF.

Of course it’s a mess at Pier 27 too.

Just got off the Crown Princess. I heard it’s a mess at Pier 80

If I had to bet, I would put money on Pier 35. Dredge work should be finished by Fall 2024. But then again, this is SF…….

Sorry…just got off Crown Princess and am now just catching up on emails, etc. I agree with what the others have posted. 900 Northpoint is just a couple of blocks from the end of the line / start of the line for the F streetcar. Yes the 30 bus will start at the Presidio Transit Center (next to Sports Chalet) and it will get you a few blocks of 900 Northpoint. Or continue on to Chinatown and have dim sum there.

Crown Princess is homeported here; that's why they get Pier 27. The backup terminal is Pier 35; that terminal needs major dredge work and will not be available until the Fall (Europa 2 pulled it off last week because they are a smaller ship and they "demanded" to be docked at Pier 35). Pier 30/32 will not hold the weight of the number of semi-trucks loading the provisions for the next cruise. They luggage x-ray machines were being packed up last week from Pier 35 getting ready to be moved to Pier 80.