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Never seen that on any Princess cruise. 😄

The grass is always greener on the other side? Back in 2020. “Virgin Atlantic had 8,500 employees and Branson has asked them to take 8 weeks unpaid leave. It would cost £4.2 million to pay all of these employees £500 a week to cover this leave. In total that’s a cost of £34 million for 8 weeks.” The implication appears to be that billionaire Richard Branson, whose net worth Forbes estimates $3.8 billion, could afford to cover this cost easily. At the same time, Sir Richard Branson wanted a $500 million bailout for Virgin from the United Kingdom government.

The other 4x4s were the ships tour. I did that in 2017 with a Princess shorex, the Patrick Watts people were just with us.Same tour, Princess price. All very well organized from the locals. Driving in a convoy and nobody will be left behind. But Volunteer Point is indeed priceless. Seeing king penguins in the wild from just 2 m away. You can't top that. The Sapphire missed Falkland on the sailing before. So be grateful. 👍

The question is: Do you think the experience thing is there to just whitewash a standard / mediocre food quality dinner?

'Immersive experience' indicates something similar like the 360 Dining Experience. I think it will be a fancy bar with the immersive LED walls, beamers, etc. So Magic Hour Bar sounds realistic. The 'Immersive experience' thing is a hype throughout the travel / restaurant industrie at the moment, not just cruise lines.

After returning to San Pedro, there is only a 6-day west coast sailing ending in Vancouver, followed by a 17 day dry dock break. I think the big resupply will be in Vancouver for the upcoming Alaska season April 29. By the way, is the wine refrigerator at Vines Bar repaired?

And now you're arriving late in Phuket.

Is this a NZ, AU or JP cruise? Then I think it's normal.

Did the situation improve after the SIN stop?

Shouldn't the next stop be Langkawi? Bridge Cam sais Penang? 🤔

It's gone since around 2015 or so.

The Sapphire was at Sembawang Shipyard in Singapore instead of Portland in January 2021. Source: https://cruiseindustrynews.com/cruise-news/2021/01/trio-of-cruise-ships-drydocks-to-start-2021/

This is an outdated info from 2021. There are no voyages between April 12 and April 29, 2023. Voyage H308N ends in Vancouver, BC on April 12, Voyage H310N starts in Vancouver, BC April 29. So most likely, dry dock will be in Victoria, BC. Although Portland, OR would be possible, too. The last scheduled dry dock was from December 31, 2020 to January 17, 2021 in Portland OR. As the two years are over, it looks this will be just a routine dry dock with the usual refurbishments.

I could match Princess Elite to MSC Voyagers Club Diamond (Black) in 2019. But never used it. 😆

I bet they were sugar free. Many of the cakes at the IC had a `sugar free` notice on the Regal lately.

Mixed.

Serious.

It's not conflicting. Crews and Chefs change frequently. What has been very good in Europe is maybe not the same product like now in the Caribbean. It has nothing to do with the ship.

Been on the Regal Oct/Nov 22 in the Mediterranean. Best cuisine since ages. All comes and falls with the Chef. Well. It's the budget Princess gives.

This is what the Sapphire Princess has planned: Sorry for the low image quality. - Cape Horn to Elephant Island - Elephant Island to Antarctica Sound - Antarctica Sound to Admiralty Bay - Admiralty Bay to Charlotte Bay - Charlotte Bay to Neumayer Channel - Neumayer Channel to Falkland The Sapphire has to skip Punta Arenas and do Ushuaia, Cape Horn and the Drake Passage one day earlier than planned. Because of unsafe stormy weather coming up from December 25.

Around 1PM. Debark Tour: Beach Cities Of LA: Venice & Santa Monica 5 hours | Los Angeles | LAX-960 Special Notes: This tour is available to disembarking passengers with flights after 4:30PM

From the photographers point of view - the higher deck, the better deck.

You should leave the casino area from time to time to see that you are totally wrong with that.