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    What's the best dining room on Sapphire Princess for anytime dining?

    in Princess Cruises

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    We do love the MDR on Princess, no matter the ship. On Sapphire, they all had equally great service and food. One was not better than the other. Except for the one time we were seated in CC class in the Santa Fe Room. The service there was exceptional. But then....you pay for it with Club Class. We were only seated there for Anytime because all the other dining rooms had a wait, and for some reason the dedicated CC Dining Room did not.

     

     

     

    Only a proportion of Santa Fe is club class. The remainder is Anytime. At least that is how it was in May.

     

     

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    Costa Diadema from Savona Western Med March 10-17 2018

    in Costa Cruises

    Posted

    Hi

     

    I am glad you had a good cruise. I fully agree with you that they should change the info on the website.

     

    We asked the cruise consultant when we booked our upcoming cruise and she told us that we would have to pay for the upgrade.

     

    How did it work? Did they make a change to your card on board?

     

    You have to tell us what you did on your cruise.

     

    Alicat

    There was a table in the atrium and you paid your money and they used a machine to issue a new card to include Piu Gusto.

    Costa Diadema from Savona Western Med March 10-17 2018

    in Costa Cruises

    Posted

    Thanks for replying so quick. We are on the Fascinosa in April from Savona and will report back.

     

     

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    When you book a cruise, when you click on Brindiamo under Total Comfort Premium Rate the following is displayed.

     

    PACKAGE "BRINDIAMO"

    Included for each guest cabin.

    Unlimited consumption of wine, beer, coffee and a wide selection of cocktails and mixed drinks.

    For guests under 18 years of age can choose from sodas, smoothies, juices and delicious hot chocolate.

     

    There is no doubt that to anyone reading this would assume that this would include alcoholic cocktails, if it didn't it should say non alcoholic cocktails.

     

    However when you you get on board to get alcoholic cocktails you have to upgrade to the Piu Gusto for another 3 Euro per day.

     

    This is misleading and their new booking system should be amended to make it clear that only non alcoholic cocktails are included in this rate.

     

    Our cruise was very good and thoroughly enjoyed the ports, the food and service.

    P&O for the Americas

    in P&O Cruises ( UK )

    Posted

    P&O doesn’t post on this forum but, as I didn’t see the original thread can I just ask - has this travel agent booked P&O cruises for some time or is this a brand new arrangement? Obviously if it’s the former then nothing has changed.

     

     

     

    They have booked for some time. It was mentioned in a question and answer item by p&o which was on this forum.

     

     

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    P&O for the Americas

    in P&O Cruises ( UK )

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    If you actually Google it then you will find that the OP is honestly quoting from a website (which has not been updated re the P&O timeline as Dai has pointed out) which is stating that P&O are marketing to the Americas.

     

     

     

    I can't post a link as it is a commercial travel agent who has set up the page with P&O logos etc on it. It's only when you look at the bottom small print that you realise it's not an official P&O page so anyone who is not used to the look and feel of the P&O uk site could easily think that it was.

     

     

     

    So P&O holidays are being marketed to "the Americas" all be it not officially through P&O (but this company may of course be an agent?)

     

     

     

    It is the only American agent that can deal with p&o as mentioned previously on this forum by p&o itself.

     

     

     

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    P&O for the Americas

    in P&O Cruises ( UK )

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    OK. So I guess that your inference is that nobody should have a contrary view? I cannot see the point of asking for views if only positive responses are permitted! Some of us like the Britishness of P&O and wouldn’t entertain, for example, going on an American ship operating from the U.K. Others will welcome it and may currently avoid P&O like the plague because of the Britishness. The point is that P&O currently has a point of difference in being marketed to a U.K. rather than international market and this suggests that this approach is changing. For me, that’s not a positive move and I am perfectly entitled to have that opinion, just as others are perfectly entitied to think it’s a positive change.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

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    P&O for the Americas

    in P&O Cruises ( UK )

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    Sorry to have included a P&O site in my thread that had booking references and as such was so removed. But I wanted to discuss this new direction P&O is taking, which is much to our liking. So I'll just cut and paste the part that I wanted to share to find some feedback on the idea of having us share your wonderful cruise line.

     

     

     

    "For more than 170 years, Britain's favorite cruise line has dedicated its fleet to the British cruise passenger. But now, for the first time, P&O Cruises is bringing the company's unrivalled experience, innovation and professionalism to the Americas.

     

    Residents of the U.S., Canada and Central America can now sail P&O on stylish and contemporary cruises of the Mediterranean, Caribbean, South America, Scandinavia and other destinations--even around the world.

     

    Leave your everyday life behind...there's a world out there."

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    It is nice to see this thread revived. It is good that there is an online site that our North American cousins can enjoy the p&o experience. We would love to see more of you on our cruises.

     

     

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    Guest's name question

    in Carnival Cruise Lines

    Posted

    Well, just tried that but now they say I can't change First name because Last name was previously changed. What I could do is get rid of "Carolina" and don't even mention this name... Just: Maria Silva Souza. However, for me at least, last name as C Silva Souza looks better, because they can see there is another name there which is abbreviated.

     

     

     

    Middle names are not important. Correct last names are.

     

     

     

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