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16 minutes ago, roxievegas said:

I am a paper person.  Whenever I book a cruise, either direct with cruise line or with a travel agency, I print a copy of the invoice that they give me, and then move the email to a new folder "trips".  I keep all revised invoices, and I call if they do not include the perks printed on the invoice (ie: paid gratuities, drinks, obc).  I save all and print them all.  When Carnival cancelled our April cruise, it disappeared from Carnival and my travel agency account, but I have every invoice printed from both.

I have two cruises to be refunded - Carnival and Princess.  I will hold on to the paper work until I am refunded every dime I am owed.

We do the same thing with one addition.  All reservations with confirmation numbers get 2 copies made and an actual paper file containing one of those copies for all of our confirmed reservations, (airline, hotel, car etc..) are always in our carry on bags when going on ANY trip not just cruises.  The few times we had that hard copy saved us time and aggravation in a few situations.  Merely having the confirmation number isn't enough for us.

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I always wondered how people get actual cash refunds? I mean does everyone book their cruises with debit/credit cards? Aren there like people who prefer exclusively to use cash, and these people can also demand refunds and stuff. As far as I know, cash refunds should be issued much quicker than credit card ones. Simply because they can just open the cashier in the office and take out money you just gave them. Maybe I am a bit old school on that but I still think that if you are afraid of a long refund , or a refund in general, you should pay with cash.. and get your refund in cash

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1 hour ago, ROWSE said:

Makes me nervous there is no record of proof I even had this cruise on there accept my own paperwork.  I chose option 1.  Is this part of the reimbursement process or is it a mistake that it disappeared?  Hope it means they are working on both of ours!!!!


As a former auditor, this is one of the most egregious issues with Princess’s systems:  things disappear (meaning the passengers can no longer see them) long before credits are being received. Same thing with FCDs...when they are cancelled, they are gone in a second, but the refunds are not appearing for months. Save screen captures, Booking IDs, and Credit IDs; I know of no other way for us to ask for status updates from Princess, nor to prove their existence. 

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9 minutes ago, PescadoAmarillo said:


As a former auditor, this is one of the most egregious issues with Princess’s systems:  things disappear (meaning the passengers can no longer see them) long before credits are being received. Same thing with FCDs...when they are cancelled, they are gone in a second, but the refunds are not appearing for months. Save screen captures, Booking IDs, and Credit IDs; I know of no other way for us to ask for status updates from Princess, nor to prove their existence. 

Actually my FCD still shows .. but it shows as having been using for voyage # xyz123

thus leaving me with $0 FCD and $0 OBC.

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20 minutes ago, Gitmo said:

Hoping against hope that this thread will stay with the OP's simple question; "Are people getting the refund money in their credit card accounts?".     

You and me both Gitmo.. you and me both.

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30 minutes ago, Gitmo said:

Hoping against hope that this thread will stay with the OP's simple question; "Are people getting the refund money in their credit card accounts?".     

Looks like people are still waiting.  No new refunds have been reported. 

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31 minutes ago, remydiva said:

Actually my FCD still shows .. but it shows as having been using for voyage # xyz123

thus leaving me with $0 FCD and $0 OBC.

 

Mine shows that it is still applied to the cancelled May 9th cruise.  Got a refund for part of what we paid within a couple days of cancelling but no accounting or additional FCCs applied as of yet.  It's been 5 weeks since we cancelled and the cruise disappeared from the Cruise Personalizer immediately after our TA cancelled it (two days before Princess announced "the pause".)  Still waiting for additional refund and / or FCCs.

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1 hour ago, PescadoAmarillo said:


As a former auditor, this is one of the most egregious issues with Princess’s systems:  things disappear (meaning the passengers can no longer see them) long before credits are being received. Same thing with FCDs...when they are cancelled, they are gone in a second, but the refunds are not appearing for months. Save screen captures, Booking IDs, and Credit IDs; I know of no other way for us to ask for status updates from Princess, nor to prove their existence. 

And of course Princess, at least as far as they say now, says that they cannot tell you the status of your refund.  Which I find quite strange because prior to this they had, and now lost, the ability to check their computer and tell you if the refund has been submitted for payment.  Last year I had a case where I canceled a cruise, prior to final payment, and the refund did not show up within the expected time.  I called and the person in customer service, checked her computer, noticed that it had not been processed and called someone to get it submitted.  Showed up in my CC account 2 days later.

 

The way this is acting, I get the feeling that all refunds are not being approved by the individual lines, but are instead all being approved by Corporate to control cash flow.  That would fit with someone reporting that Princess had told them that they were setting up the system to process refunds.

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My booking dropped off yesterday.  When I log in and click on Booked Guests it says I have no booking.  However if I use the log in box that takes you directly to your booking using my name, email, birth date AND booking number it shows me my booking in Cruise Personalizer.  I keep checking for a refund but nothing yet.  So my booking has not completely disappeared.   I assume and hope the change in booking status means they are working on the refund.  

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16 minutes ago, Bay Cruiser said:

My booking dropped off yesterday.  When I log in and click on Booked Guests it says I have no booking.  However if I use the log in box that takes you directly to your booking using my name, email, birth date AND booking number it shows me my booking in Cruise Personalizer.  I keep checking for a refund but nothing yet.  So my booking has not completely disappeared.   I assume and hope the change in booking status means they are working on the refund.  

 

We were supposed to sail in three days, and within the past couple days  the booking has disappeared 

from the cruise personalizer.  Also, under the Completed cruises section, the 4/18 cruise which showed as  “future” has disappeared from that screen as well, but I’ve read on a few cruise boards that people were actually getting cruise credits for cruises that weren’t even taken,ie, Cruise not taken but showing   As “completed” that Princess  canceled.  That certainly isn’t the case with my booking, nor would I  Expect that.  Just thought it was worth a mention.  

Also, I always take screenshots of everything in the personalizer  as proof.  

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I just got off a webinar for TAs with the VP of sales. He did state that refunds and FCCs would take up to 60 days to process as they were being taken care of manually, one by one, to ensure that everything was processed accurately. He also confirmed that they would be taking care of this in order of sail date - which means that my March 14th sailing should be at the front of the line....fingers crossed!

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2 minutes ago, ceilidh1 said:

I just got off a webinar for TAs with the VP of sales. He did state that refunds and FCCs would take up to 60 days to process as they were being taken care of manually, one by one, to ensure that everything was processed accurately. He also confirmed that they would be taking care of this in order of sail date - which means that my March 14th sailing should be at the front of the line....fingers crossed!

I hope our Feb 13 cruise is processed soon, our 60 days has come and gone.

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2 minutes ago, lhall85917 said:

I hope our Feb 13 cruise is processed soon, our 60 days has come and gone.

Oh, man....you are a whole month ahead of me! That glimmer of hope just got extinguished. I thought/hoped that people prior to the March 12th cancellations had been taken care of....so sorry!

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4 minutes ago, ceilidh1 said:

Oh, man....you are a whole month ahead of me! That glimmer of hope just got extinguished. I thought/hoped that people prior to the March 12th cancellations had been taken care of....so sorry!

I may have missed it, but I haven’t seen any reports of refunds being issued yet. We received 50%FCC when we cancelled (couldn’t justify taking a chance out of Singapore), but when the cruise was cancelled a day later we were told we would receive a refund and a total of 100% FCC. Our TA has checked several times. At first it was 5-10 business days, then 30 days, now 60. Maybe we will start hearing refund reports soon.

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6 hours ago, Roger88 said:

I always wondered how people get actual cash refunds? I mean does everyone book their cruises with debit/credit cards? Aren there like people who prefer exclusively to use cash, and these people can also demand refunds and stuff. As far as I know, cash refunds should be issued much quicker than credit card ones. Simply because they can just open the cashier in the office and take out money you just gave them. Maybe I am a bit old school on that but I still think that if you are afraid of a long refund , or a refund in general, you should pay with cash.. and get your refund in cash

You cannot pay Princess for a cruise in cash.  Perhaps if you use a B&M TA, they might accept a barrel of cash, but I would ask first.  Not sure why you think travel industry is going to be working in cash.

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As of today still nothing. We were cancelled on our March 14 Sky back to back two days before we were to sail so I’m waiting for my 225 percent future cruise credit as well as about 2600 in excursions and internet and spending cash etc. I also was to sail in May for a small cruise that also got canceled with the shutdown so I’m waiting for 150 percent cruise credit. 

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I keep hoping that the line in number 2 above "it will take up to 60 days from the date we receive your preference for refunds and FCCs to  be processed."  That would mean around May 13 for those of us who were in the initial 60 day voluntary pause and who filled out our forms the day it was announced, which was March 12th.  It is still too slow, IMHO, but not that May 13th is less than a month away, it seems more palatable. 

 

This FAQ is still on the Princess website; has been there since the first week in April. 

 

For those asking, if you search "dearinger", or some such spelling, that is the one person I have seen on this thread that has received a refund from Princess.

 

 

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I think Princess is hurting financially. I cancelled well before the mass exit about a month and a half ago. I was told my refund would take 5 to 7 business days NOT. AMEX reversed my charge which was in the same billing period and so I did not have to pay the $800 deposit. 

 

I wish Princess would be honest about the refunds. I think the word of the day is Transparent which Princess is not.

 

I think our cruising days are over as we are in the high risk group and I don't think there will be a viable vaccine for a long time!

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9 hours ago, weberman said:

I think Princess is hurting financially. I cancelled well before the mass exit about a month and a half ago. I was told my refund would take 5 to 7 business days NOT. AMEX reversed my charge which was in the same billing period and so I did not have to pay the $800 deposit. 

 

I wish Princess would be honest about the refunds. I think the word of the day is Transparent which Princess is not.

 

I think our cruising days are over as we are in the high risk group and I don't think there will be a viable vaccine for a long time!

 

Princess is definitely playing a shell game with passengers and has no intention of issuing refunds because they are probably going to be forced into bankruptcy.....even if they did issue a refund to us sometime later this year.....we will no longer be sailing with them because they are not trustworthy based on their whole performance with the COVID-19 crisis and dishonestly in their communications and promises to customers.

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