Crown Princess Hawaii - 15 Feb to 2 Mar - Trip Prep & Live

[arctickitty]

Complete Day 1 Princess Patter
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[arizonaperson]

Thanks, I am enjoying your Live From. 

[memoak]

1 hour ago, arctickitty said:

Good morning, @Yehootu the pizzeria on Crown is called Slice and I did see pizza as an up charge item on Ocean Now (anywhere room service).  

 

 

Looks like it’s available 11-11 (the in person Slice is open 11-9) and is $3 for cheese or pepperoni.  At the in person slice they’ve also been having a daily special.  We haven’t tried it yet but yesterday I said I hadn’t even seen Slice so we went and looked for it.

Slice is not really a pizzeria but an outdoor venue with pizza by the slice and only 3 options 

[arctickitty]

53 minutes ago, arizonaperson said:

Thanks, I am enjoying your Live From. 

@arizonaperson.  You are welcome!

[Coral]

2 hours ago, arctickitty said:

Friday’s best food find:

 

What is it??

[arctickitty]

2 hours ago, Hogladyrider said:

@arctickitty...what is it?

It was the eggplant Parmesan from Sabatini’s.

 

When I woke up, I discovered how to look at menus on the medallion app and wasn’t impressed with the dinner menu so I booked Sabatini’s to use some of our OBC.

 

Eggplant 🍆 is one of my favorite vegetables and is hard to find in Alaska.  Eggplant Parmesan was my favorite food growing up (aka eggplant Farmer John when I was so little I couldn’t pronounce it) and my mom made it for my birthday every year.  I wasn’t sure what they’d do with it on board but this one completely exceeded my expectations.  They knocked it out of the park.  The textures were perfect and it was bursting with flavor.  If we go to Sabatini’s again towards the end of the cruise, I would probably order it again.

[arctickitty]

[arctickitty]

Two of the display cases at the International Cafe this fine Saturday morning:

  

 

 

Since our room was moved from deck 5 to deck 14, and since Ocean Now works really well early in the morning, I haven’t been peeking at the IC as much as I thought I would.  
 

I have to wear 3-5 layers of compression stockings in order to function in life, so it’s really nice to have specialty coffee delivered while I’m getting all that junk on.

But I think that on days that I have the time, it’s worth doing a morning staircase lap in order to go look at the food. 

[arctickitty]

I think I’m going to do this today instead of Zumba/Dancersize/ Dance Fitness:

 

 

For the Zumba fans out there, there has been some sort of Zumba-like class each day at 9am so far.  The first day was “Dance Fitness” with Hannah who is a production dancer.  She had fantastic energy and an indefatigable smile.  Her dance training showed as she preferred to teach us the steps before each song.  This was fine because it alternated higher and lower intensity workouts.

 

Yesterday was Zumba with Kristoff the Cruise Director and he also had amazing energy and a stellar smile that lit up the whole Club Fusion.  
 

Today is to be Dancersize with Hannah.

 

We currently don’t have any dance fitness classes offered in our area at home so they’ve been fun to do. I also realized a nice thing about them onboard is the quality sound system—makes it such a fun experience and really showcases the music.

 

I do have to confess that I may have scandalized the crowd yesterday and/or inspired the others.  

Hannah taught the first day in her sports bra and no shirt and I thought oh ok, so it is OK to work out in a sports bra or crop top on Princess.  Good to know!  (It’s not allowed in our gym at home).  So yesterday I was brave and wore a matching tie dye shorts & crop top set my sister had given me (she sends me all sorts of interesting clothes in the mail) and I was the only person showing so much skin.  Then I looked behind me and this more typical for Princess-aged woman took her shirt off and continued dancing in her bra.  So then I thought maybe my ridiculous outfit inspired her to feel more free and I had to laugh so much inside because it wasn’t a sports bra.  
 

At all.  

[southpawsdakota]

For anyone on board can you please post who the Hotel Manager and Food and Beverage officers are, thank you. We were on in November and hope the same people will be on whe we get on again March 17th/ thank you!

[arctickitty]

@southpawsdakota

 

[arctickitty]

My hilarity of the day was found about 6/8 of the way through running a 5K on the promenade deck.  Yes, I was that person,  but I was super careful and polite about it.

 

 

That other social media site relentlessly shows me ads for virtual races and fitness challenges and one day I caved and bought the Stand Up 2 Cancer virtual 5K or 10K.  I’m a 2 time survivor so it’s personally meaningful to me.  And then I justified the purchase because the shirt and medal both say “5K * 10K” that I therefore have to do both a 5K and a 10K in order to earn the medal.

 

 

So I did the 5K today and wore the race shirt and pinned the race bib on my water pack and hit the decks.  1) stairs are a challenge in a run 2) two at a time is more functional 3) some Princess-aged passengers can walk faster than I can run.

 

And then I saw him.

 

 

Tapped him on the shoulder.  His wife or presumably female companion looked confused.  I pointed to his shirt and pointed to mine and we shared a “heyyyy” and I gave him a high 5 and kept going.

 

Yeah, that was in the smoking section.

[Level six]

Fun! 

[Familycruzer11]

We are on the 4/14 sailing and am enjoying your thread immensely   Thanks for the Patter!  Is the Zumba/dance in Club Fusion? If you have info about the new exercise classes, would be greatly appreciated.  Enjoy your cruise!

[Hogladyrider]

@arctickitty...loving your review....great job!

[southpawsdakota]

Artickitty thank you for the picture of the officers now on the Crown. We are hoping Tim Ellis will be back on in March. He went home at Christmas.

[arctickitty]

3 hours ago, Familycruzer11 said:

We are on the 4/14 sailing and am enjoying your thread immensely   Thanks for the Patter!  Is the Zumba/dance in Club Fusion? If you have info about the new exercise classes, would be greatly appreciated.  Enjoy your cruise!

 

@Familycruzer11:

 

The Zumba and the Zumba That Shall Not Be Called Zumba has all been in Club Fusion at 9am.  As far as I can tell, it’s all Zumba.  Cardio dancing to peppy songs.  They haven’t said this but in the past, if someone knows how to teach Zumba but doesn’t have a current certification they call it dance fitness or something like that.

 

There are also fitness classes on the stateroom TV.  I haven’t tried them yet but I intend to and will let you know.

 

We have found ourselves much too busy to need to try the paid classes in the gym but we saw this sign yesterday:

 

 

The Patter doesn’t list any of the fitness center classes, paid or free and I have been forgetting to look in the Medallion app.

[Familycruzer11]

24 minutes ago, arctickitty said:

 

@Familycruzer11:

 

The Zumba and the Zumba That Shall Not Be Called Zumba has all been in Club Fusion at 9am.  As far as I can tell, it’s all Zumba.  Cardio dancing to peppy songs.  They haven’t said this but in the past, if someone knows how to teach Zumba but doesn’t have a current certification they call it dance fitness or something like that.

 

There are also fitness classes on the stateroom TV.  I haven’t tried them yet but I intend to and will let you know.

 

We have found ourselves much too busy to need to try the paid classes in the gym but we saw this sign yesterday:

 

 

The Patter doesn’t list any of the fitness center classes, paid or free and I have been forgetting to look in the Medallion app.

This is very helpful thank you!  

[arctickitty]

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Edited February 19, 2023 by arctickitty

[Kolleen]

Loved the sports bra story!

 

Would you let us know if the new single page menus are being used on the Crown, and if so we would love some pictures.

[arctickitty]

14 minutes ago, Kolleen said:

Loved the sports bra story!

 

Would you let us know if the new single page menus are being used on the Crown, and if so we would love some pictures.

Hi @Kolleen!

 

The menus have all been 2 pages.  I haven’t been consistent with taking pictures of the physical menus as I can screenshot the online menus in OceanNow with better readability.  I looked back and found at least this one I photographed on the wall.  This was the first night.

 

 

 

Edited February 19, 2023 by arctickitty

[arctickitty]

I think Special Someone is a little bummed the smoker wearing a cancer charity T-shirt story hasn’t gotten any direct comments (hint hint).  

 

In the meantime, this was my favorite food find from Saturday:

 

 

I ordered a second one for dessert.

 

[Level six]

12 minutes ago, arctickitty said:

I think Special Someone is a little bummed the smoker wearing a cancer charity T-shirt story hasn’t gotten any direct comments (hint hint).  

 

In the meantime, this was my favorite food find from Saturday:

 

 

I ordered a second one for dessert.

 

What is that?? 

 

Also, did you have to have a covid test before the cruise?  Have they said if you going to be tested while on the cruise?  Thanks. 

 

Edited February 19, 2023 by Level six

[arctickitty]

1 hour ago, Level six said:

What is that?? 

 

Also, did you have to have a covid test before the cruise?  Have they said if you going to be tested while on the cruise?  Thanks. 

 

 

@Level six  the yum yum was duck liver pâté.  Liver was another favorite food growing up.

 

There hasn’t been any mention of covid testing at any point.  They did ask at the port one question about if we had any Covid symptoms. 

[Bettyboop66]

Thanks again for taking us along on your cruise. And the “food porn” pictures are great😜