platinum status

[dreaminofcruisin]

The nicest thing about the P/E/S pre-dinner thing is when it is in Skywalkers on the Grand Class ships! Especially if it's during a sail-away! Really pleasant way to enjoy it.

[Moondogy]

6 hours ago, Copeland3 said:

Where abouts is the E/P Lounge on Enchanted?

 

It is usually one of the lounges should be announced in the patter. Which one depends on the ship.

[caribill]

On 5/23/2022 at 8:10 PM, Moondogy said:

It is usually one of the lounges should be announced in the patter. Which one depends on the ship.

 

It is rarely listed in the Patter since not all on board can attend.

 

Usually there will be a card sent to your stateroom giving the location, dates and times of this event.

 

If you are P/E/S and did not get the card, ask the onboard Captain's Circle rep.

[arizonaperson]

On 5/21/2022 at 1:15 PM, SmedonSeas said:

Just making sure...that Platinum can go to the "Elite Lounge". Looks like the Princess Patter puts "Elite Lounge" not the full P\E\S.

 Oops sorry .I just realized that the message right above mine says pretty much the same thing as I just said. I did not read all of them until I posted this.

 

 

 I did not know that the platinum, elite, suite lounge from approximately 5 to 7 PM was ever posted in the Patters.Maybe I just never looked for it. Usually if you qualify there is a card in your room that lists what food and what evenings it’s held  & location of lounge.

Usually when the captain circle party is going on they do not hold it. But maybe that’s all changed with the medallion? There have been times that there was no card in our room and we did ask our room Steward and they  brought one to our cabin shortly after asking. 

 As far as the disembarkation lounge  we have mixed feelings about that usually there was never any food or drinks ,they were usually pretty well picked over but we’re not usually interested in food and drinks when we’re disembarking as we have just eaten breakfast.  Depending on how many elites, platinum ,and suite passengers that are on any particular voyage that lounge for disembarkation can get pretty crowded.  

 

Edited May 28, 2022 by arizonaperson
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[Happiest when cruising]

On 5/20/2022 at 2:30 PM, Thrak said:

 

That was a massive perk to us. We see the people hanging out in the photo hallway or the casino waiting to disembark. It was great to be able to go to a nice lounge and sit with coffee, juice, etc. I used to take the small bottles of bubbly and use the provided OJ to make Mimosas while waiting to disembark. We also used to take advantage of the discounted drinks at the P/E/S lounge in the evenings. With Princess Plus that is no longer something we care about. We have, on occasion, used the munchies at the P/E/S lounge in place of dinner.

There was no lounge to wait to disembark on April 16. We had the lousy, smelly casino. 

[Thrak]

1 hour ago, Happiest when cruising said:

There was no lounge to wait to disembark on April 16. We had the lousy, smelly casino. 

 

GAH!!! We had to wait in the Casino once but we were Gold level at the time. It was awful. No good seating, cigarette smoke smell, etc. Since becoming Platinum (and then Elite) we have always had a nice and comfortable venue to await our disembarkation time. This last time (disembarked Royal Princess on May 14)  we waited in Vista Lounge. I would be pretty danged unhappy to have been stuck in the Casino waiting for our disembarkation group to be called. I probably would have just gone with an earlier group even though we were supposed to wait until later. I'm not interested in having to wait in some crappy and uncomfortable location and I certainly don't want my wife to have to do so either.

[Happiest when cruising]

6 minutes ago, Thrak said:

 

GAH!!! We had to wait in the Casino once but we were Gold level at the time. It was awful. No good seating, cigarette smoke smell, etc. Since becoming Platinum (and then Elite) we have always had a nice and comfortable venue to await our disembarkation time. This last time (disembarked Royal Princess on May 14)  we waited in Vista Lounge. I would be pretty danged unhappy to have been stuck in the Casino waiting for our disembarkation group to be called. I probably would have just gone with an earlier group even though we were supposed to wait until later. I'm not interested in having to wait in some crappy and uncomfortable location and I certainly don't want my wife to have to do so either.

They did not offer a lounge, at all. There was also no priority boarding and don’t get me started on the Arrival booking times. It did not matter what loyalty level you were, they just let everyone in as they arrived, even with later arrival groups. We all either stood in line, or sat closely together in the holding areas.
We were in the first group, there were many who had different coloured medallions and they were told it was no problem, just stay in line. In the end, we got on the ship and had a great cruise.  I did notice they have dropped the arrival time slots out next cruise in the fall. Now, they call it - early- mid -late. arrivals. 
I’ll sure be smarter about the lounge next time. I didn’t really think about it soon enough.  We did want the very last time slot as our flight wasn’t until 2:00, but they booted us off around 9:20 am. anyways. We did have a nice breakfast in the MDR, though. We stayed there as long as they were open.
At least I remembered we didn’t have to go to buffet and be crowded together and hanging onto carry on bags trying to find a seat to eat. 

[justafem]

Steak Tartar!  You must say this in a deep Klingon voice!

 

Tartar!

[MissP22]

On 5/22/2022 at 5:46 PM, sewingmolly said:

It's some hors d'oeuvres and you can get discounted drinks, if you don't have a drinks package.  On the Caribbean Princess last week there were about 1,000 platinum and elite cruisers.  We went every night and never saw more the 20 people there.  It was held from 5-7 pm, so it's somewhere to stop in before dinner. 

Same thing on the Enchanted. (Vista lounge) 

There were never more than 20 or so people there and since most people had the drink package and the appetizers were no where near as good as they used to be it wasn't worth the time.