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    HAL, Princess
  • Favorite Cruise Destination Or Port of Call
    Alaska

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  1. I recognize that view With a semi covered Caribe deck, which Grand class type ship are you on? When I was there, I was on the Tahitian Princess, so a much smaller ship.
  2. My late wife and I did one in Honolulu on the Star one year. We were about halfway through the meal when the heavens opened up as a thunderstorm rolled through. Thankfully, we were on the Caribe deck, so it was just a case of dragging the tables and chairs under the overhang and we got to watch natures fireworks for the rest of the meal
  3. Whale watching in Cabo around that time of year is my go to excursion every time. I would throughly recommend the sunset sail excursion. I did one last Feb and it was the most amazing experience. Whales galore and everyone aboard was game, despite the breezy conditions, to have a little bit of extreme sailing according to the captain and first mate, and they cut the engines and hoisted the sails for the return part of the journey. šŸ˜‰
  4. I just went into my total solar eclipse cruise for April 2024 and tried to reserve 360 for an evening after a port visit (high chance not a formal night) and despite being in a full suite, it shows that it will charge my credit card for the reservation
  5. The middle one looks like 1 days gratuities for 2 (I havenā€™t sailed since Feb, so no idea on the current daily rates). The other days could be grats, plus say a drink at the bar, or grats and a purchase from a store onboard, etc.
  6. If they continue to show pending and not actually charged, then they should drop off after a few days. As your room charge balance increases during the cruise, Princess will place a temporary authorization/ hold on your card, just to make sure that you are ā€œgoodā€ to pay the final bill when it becomes due.
  7. Iā€™ve found that when booking excursions in advance of a cruise, the SHOBC can only be applied to the passenger who has the credit against their name. If I have say $100 SHOBC and I book a $50 excursion for both passengers in the reservation, it will take $50 of my OBC and apply it to my reservation and then ask me to pay the $50 for the other passenger, even though technically, I still have the other $50 of OBC in my account. No such issues if I wait until I board to use the OBC for both passengers assuming both onboard folios are paid by the same credit card.
  8. OBC showed up in my account less than 2hrs later. About 12 hrs in total from signing up for an account to having the credit show up on my booking and no need to share broker login details.
  9. Iā€™m looking to change an existing booking. One of my options is to add a 3rd person to the booking and buy a plus package for them as passengers #1 and #2 were booked with a plus fare and weā€™d all like to have a drink, or three. Does the first night speciality dining for suite passengers apply to all passengers in the cabin and given that Iā€™ve booked a cruise on the Discovery Princess and therefore it offers 360 dinning, does the 360 invitation also extend to all 3 passengers? TIA
  10. I got an email a few hours ago to say that my stock holding verification was complete and to go ahead and submit a claim for OBC. I did that and got the stock ā€œplease wait for up to 5 days for the credit to show up on your accountā€
  11. When it came to the brokerage info, I simply typed etrade and was promoted to upload a copy of my brokerage statement. I just sent a single page showing my CCL stock holding. I got a confirmation shortly after to say that they had received it and would review it within the next 2 days
  12. I would have been tempted to ask guest services to check the medallion logs to show where you were and where you were not that evening! Iā€™m sure they track those 24x7. Princess would be rather shocked to find my late wife always used the gents public loos when we cruised as I would always have her medallion in my pocket during the evening! šŸ¤­
  13. I have not been on the Crown yet (roll on the 2025 WC), but if the Crown is like other Grand class ships, the balconies on deck 10 (Caribe) will be semi covered. The first 4 feet or so of the balcony is covered by the Baja deck and the last 5 feet of the expansive deck are exposed. I was on the Star back in 2013 and that semi covered balcony came in handy when we had our ultimate balcony dinner when docked in Honolulu. During the meal it began to rain, along with a spectacular thunderstorm, so we simply pulled the table and chairs under the overhang from Baja deck and enjoyed natures fireworks whilst enjoying the rest of our food and drinkies. and yes, even a hobbit will feel claustrophobic on the majority of the balconies on the Royal. Even in an S6 suite!
  14. Iā€™ve done the HI circle cruise over the holidays twice, though out of LA and not SF. The day of departure was not too bad, but it turned chillier the next day. It warmed up slowly as we got closer to the islands. It wasnā€™t really sunbathing weather until 2 days out from the islands and the same on the return.
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