Questions on Sapphire Princess.

[Cruzinnana47]

We're considering booking the Sapphire Princess possibly for a May, 2025 Pacific Wine Country sailing.   This would be our 7th Princess cruise, but first on this ship and are interested in booking a reserve collection mini suite.  Read somewhere that this particular ship has 5 dining rooms onboard.  Which dining room would be used for the reserve collection dining?  

 

Saw that the Sapphire has a Conservatory area including a covered pool.  Any thoughts on this--good/bad, would be appreciated.  Pictures seen on You Tube looked pretty nice.

 

TIA.

[startedwithamouse]

4 minutes ago, Cruzinnana47 said:

We're considering booking the Sapphire Princess possibly for a May, 2025 Pacific Wine Country sailing.   This would be our 7th Princess cruise, but first on this ship and are interested in booking a reserve collection mini suite.  Read somewhere that this particular ship has 5 dining rooms onboard.  Which dining room would be used for the reserve collection dining?  

 

Saw that the Sapphire has a Conservatory area including a covered pool.  Any thoughts on this--good/bad, would be appreciated.  Pictures seen on You Tube looked pretty nice.

 

TIA.

Conservatory has the comfortable padded loungers and chairs. Nothing you have to pay extra for. 

Santa Fe is used for Reserve Collection dining. 

She's one of our favourite ships in the fleet. 

[Ken the cruiser]

We were just on the Sapphire for 30 days and had a great time cruising around Antarctica and visiting other nearby SA ports. The Reserve Dining Room is on Deck 6 on the starboard side next to the Santa Fe MDR. 

[Cruzinnana47]

Just now, startedwithamouse said:

Conservatory has the comfortable padded loungers and chairs. Nothing you have to pay extra for. 

Santa Fe is used for Reserve Collection dining. 

She's one of our favourite ships in the fleet. 

Thanks.  Did think I recall reading that Santa Fe was used for reserve collection dining.

That sounds fine, not having to pay $$ for the Sanctuary and able to enjoy an indoor pool area in the Conservatory, especially if the weather outside isn't the best.  

Glad to hear you enjoy sailing on the Sapphire.  Even though it's older, we don't mind as we prefer this class of ship.

[Cruzinnana47]

2 minutes ago, Ken the cruiser said:

We were just on the Sapphire for 30 days and had a great time cruising around Antarctica and visiting other nearby SA ports. The Reserve Dining Room is on Deck 6 on the starboard side next to the Santa Fe MDR. 

Thank you for your response.  Glad you enjoyed the Sapphire.  

[TRLD]

The reason Sapphire and Diamond have 5 dining rooms rather than the normal 3 is that the 2 mid ship dining rooms on deck 5 and 6 are each split into two separate DR each with their own entrance compared to the normal 1 large room with doors on each side.