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Filling up second bowl of pop corn....MMM!

Looks like they want to be an all inclusive cruise line and take away passenger choice. We usually just buy the coffee cards and soda package because neither one of us drink alcohol. On our next cruise they want us to buy a package which will increase the cruise by $2500 after we have fully paid and now they are changing things on us. Our coffee card and beverage package we bought now shows "out of stock." Princess is really going to lose a lot of loyal cruises. Time to go to the more small ship luxury brands and leave Princess Price Gougers behind if this is the new Princess model.

I always buy the unlimited soda package which is specifically for fountain drinks and in the MDR they keep bringing refills if I request. If I did not have the soda package they would bring me an individual can of Diet Coke and charge me. There would be no refill and if I wanted more it would involve paying for another can. At the bars you cannot buy just a glass of Diet Coke because there is no listed price… only listed prices are for cans of soda.

Agree when we were on the Crown there was no problems with engine indicated earlier this year. Yes, go for the suite if you can afford it. The perks are worth it over a mini-suite on the Crown. We were in a Penthouse Suite and they are very spacious and nice.

Same here. Have not had any problems getting a specialty restaurant reservation once on board with all the cruises we have done this year. I really do not think it is a problem and maybe Princess is just not selling that many Plus or Premium packages.

Not just ladies anymore. At our gym they seem pretty popular with the guys too.

During Covid when the ships were very empty sometimes you could go to the Passenger Services desk during embarkation and ask if you could upgrade your cabin and if available they would do it for an added fee. I do not think it is even happening with full ships and the new bidding system which we like.

Alfredo's are being rebranded GiGi's.

Most of my friends would not be pretentious enough to suggest a dress code for a party and would be more concerned about their friends having an enjoyable time together then wanting others to dress to impress which is so shallow. The reality is that Princess does not have a dress code that they enforce across the fleet and most long time Princess cruisers know that. The newbie's will soon learn that too.

In all fairness it is a poll asking for people's choice if they had a choice regarding this issue. While you are at it you might as well report half the threads on Princess CC that keep getting brought up over and over and over.

Non taken. I guess it all depends on how many OBC's you get or can get for each cruise. However, we just do not see a major deterioration in Princess' product. For us the sky is not falling.

This is like saying you might get a parking or speeding ticket so you should not get in a car. We just have not seen people turned away in hundreds and hundreds of days cruise on Princess for not strictly following the dress code ideas.

We always travel in Suites or Reserved Class Mini-Suites and just do not really notice the minimalistic changes mentioned. Almost all travel programs have adjusted their loyalty rewards downward so Princess is not different. We just do not want them to tamper with the OBC's they offer.

On the Crown recently the Chef's Table participants wore long white coats (like a Dr. or lab coat) provided by Princess?

This is true. We were just recently on a 10 day Mexican cruise and there was very little monitoring at the door. We were in CC and every night 3 different cruisers from different groups came to the dinning room wearing shorts, even on formal nights, and were greeted warmly by the restaurant manager. I thought about all the comments on CC that say shorts are never allowed.

Nothing wrong with a cruise line trying to provide different experiences for different costs for its' passengers. Life is about choices. Princess is offering choices for the Cheese Burger crowd and the Beluga Caviar crowd with differentiating costs. Smart business I think. We definitely like the distinctions which can make cruising more enjoyable instead of being herded around a ship with the masses for everything.

Princess on a number of their cruises is starting to use the term "Elegant Night" instead of Formal Night and suggesting more causal dress is acceptable. We all know that Princess does not enforce its' dress suggestion as many here on CC would lead you to believe and there are no MDR Dragons at the door checking everyone out on what they wear each night and allowing admittance or not to the MDRs..

What faulty logic. There is no correlation if a person is given the choice to pay the Crew Appreciation charge or not and their wealth. Even Princess implies it is optional by stating "Appreciation is subject to adjustment, at your discretion, at any time during the cruise up to the time you settle your onboard account prior to disembarkation." So people can try and tip shame all they want but it is still and individual choice that free people have the right to exercise if they choose. There are no hard and fast rules in life or cruising as we have learned many times on CC.

Princess has been doing the egg drop and paper airplane contests forever. I think it really is for the older crowd because it is actually something they can do. Those kinds of activities are not going to draw a hip, slick or cool youthful group of passengers. Princess is just what it is.

Every cruise we were on this year had Bingo this year and so glad they jointed the 21st Century and you can play on tablets now too.

This is has been our experience on most European cruises too. Alaska, Mexico, Hawaiian and Caribbean cruises tend to be way more casual on formal nights and European cruises tend to have more formal dressers but they definitely are not in the majority. It is not like they are use to going to Royal Balls.

Yes.....actually two....one in each cabin on the Ruby....there was not a sound problem and each door has an individual lock.

We had E729 and E731 on the Ruby Princess for a 10 day Alaska cruise earlier this summer. We never experienced any issues with smoke or the connecting door either. I believe the smoking area for passengers on the beck below is a few cabins forward of those two cabins. Plus it was an Alaska cruise so more people may have used the casino for smoking.

Each person in your party is entitled to a 12 pack of canned soda. Also, at different ports we have never had a problem of purchasing canned sodas and bringing them on too. Nobody is counting.

You have to login in to your booking and then go to the upgrade section. After entering that information it will show you your bid and allow you to cancel if it has not been already granted.