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Find your Grand Princess Roll Call by choosing your sailing month from the drop down menu below. Find your Majestic Princess Roll Call by choosing your sailing month from the drop down menu below. I posted in the old Sun Princess thread about a bid to upgrade that I received.

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Or, just pay up and have a good time. Your mistake is that you failed to calculate the actual cost of the cruise. I always add in the cost of the Plus package, because you can't cruise without it unless you are a teetotaler and hate wifi. Do note that aside from the Plus package, I spend almost nothing on the ship. I rarely take a ship excursion, as I prefer to do things on my own. I eat most of my meals in the main dining room.

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A little research prior to booking would have been ideal. The "Just get the Plus package" advice pushes the costs to £7k, not a small figure for any family and especially during a cost of living crisis, and that's before shore excursions or anything else. I just can't wrap my head about how much do you actually need to spend before it actually feels like a care free all-inclusive experience, which it certainly doesn't feel like it at the moment, it's like there's a toll booth at every turn. I have a feeling that you’re convinced that you won’t enjoy yourself. You already feel cheated and disappointed. Seasoned cruisers understand the importance of being flexible.

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If you are one of those people, go on the ship and enjoy it. If you are NOT one of those people — spend more or DO NOT GO. Your current view of your vacation will bring you only misery. All of the food will taste bad to you. Your current attitude will NEVER let you enjoy this cruise because you will always believe someone is out to steal your money and everyone on the ship will have more than you.

What types of activities are available vary from ship to ship, but generally speaking, cruisers typically gather around the pools by day and hang out day and night in the Piazza to enjoy spontaneous performances, live music and dancing. The line's signature Movies Under the Stars is also popular. On select ships theatrical productions by the creator of "Wicked," Steven Schwartz, draw a crowd in the evening. Fares for a Princess cruise include complimentary dining in a handful of venues, as well as room service and water, tea and coffee, and select juices. Enrichment lectures, classes and presentations are also free with a few exceptions.

Princess is renowned for its expertise in Alaska cruising, though Princess sails all over the world with ships ranging from 672 passengers to 3,560. Basic research  uncovers the costs are  base fare, optional service charge(£13) and the two optional packages(£50,£65) that include the £13 service. So, look at what would make your cruise a great holiday for you and price it up accordingly and see if that is within your budget. Cruising is a great experience and IMO value for money whatever way you cut it but only if you do it your way and not the cruise line's way! Spend what you want to spend and no more and if that doesn't make cruising really attractive to you then best not to cruise IMO. I was getting all of my information from that thread for our friends to decide if they wanted to keep our currently booked cruise or switch to the Enchanted Princess.

You normally don't need to spend a small fortune on excursions... We normally just visit by foot or local bus/train. However, others want the extras of drinks packages, wifi, and many love the ship excursions or health spa services, private cabanas, speciality dining. But you really don't need all that stuff to have a good time. All cruiselines want you to spend money onboard, but you don’t have to. As for your non refundable deposit, unfortunately this is a UK policy which I’m quite sure you were well aware of before you booked.

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But the shows, games, main dining room, pool, etc are available to you. It definitely is a bottomless money pit - as long as you keep throwing money into it. The math for plus or premium just doesn't work for us. We also don't spend much on board either, in fact I refer to us as a couple of freeloaders.

Find your Caribbean Princess Roll Call by choosing your sailing month from the drop down menu below. Find your Royal Princess Roll Call by choosing your sailing month from the drop down menu below. On Smart Casual evenings, the line advises passengers to dress similarly to what they would wear to a nice restaurant at home.

That helps with spending for sure and for me that means no pxg is necessary. You can sell the cruise for reasonable admin fees if you can find someone to buy it. Wondering which port was the "bucket list" on those itineraries. What surprises me is you seem to feel some of this is a surprise and a money grab.

Princess — nor any other cruise line out there — is going to have a business model where they aren’t upselling and trying to maximize revenue. Cruising can often be pretty cheap if you want it to be but you have to work at making it cheap. It can be very easy to let the dollars mount as you upgrade cabins, buy packages, add excursions etc. Small compensation, but when a ship drops a port, you are refunded port fees. Join your Roll Call on Cruise Critic often times people will be organizing excursions that are cheaper than the cruise line. There is an energy lacking aboard despite the new very active, less elegant, piazza.