Princess Chatter

Sky Princess – Day 9- 10 observations


•   Note to Rebecca: When leaving Princess Theater for our excursion we abruptly smelled the return of Mr. Poopy Pants.
 


•   Gun cokes continue to be served without charge to our steerage class.
Great. I wonder how long that will last?

•   The supposed clean comedian was smutty.
Something I actually enjoy !

•   I ordered a “cowboy” steak in the aft dining room “medium”. It was served “rare”causing me to send it back for another selection.
I've had it a number of times on other ships and it wasn't half bad. Sounds like the beef quality has taken a hit.

•   Last night’s Princess Theater cast show was “Rock Opera.”  It was at times 100 dB loud with bass so loud it vibrated me and our row of seats.  Reserved seats were empty until 5 minutes before the show then there was a scramble for them.  The theme of the show made little sense and during the finale we had the usual three or four ladies standing and waving their hands in ecstasy.
I've seen it quite a number of times which is enough, thank you. Without the groupies.

Star Princess day 11 observations

•   One half of all cabins are empty.  Each empty cabin shows passenger names.
I think they do that all the times for empty cabins.

•   Sky Princess 24/7 plays the same repeating boring dining room, Horizon Court music tape day after day.
It must cost them more $$$ if they chose new tunes to broadcast.
Same thing with the old tired movies they choose to show year after year.

•   Two teams had a perfect score on the Motown music trivia contest.  Were they using the Google music ID app to nail it.  Inquiring minds want to know.
If seems like an easy fix. Just turn off the Wi-Fi in that area during the trivia contest.

•   Sky Princess is slow walking giving us port fees and tax refunds for our two cancelled port stops.
•   Princess gave us a $100 non refundable OBC for making this a cruise to nowhere.  Non refundable means the money MUST be spent only on their jacked up ship prices.
Cash it out in the Casino.

 
•   Dear wife (DW) is waiting patiently for the ship T-Shirt closeout sale.  She wants a Princess Casablanca T-Shirt to remember our cancelled Casablanca stop.  Is anyone keeping records of how many times Princess has listed Casablanca as an itinerary stop then cancelled the stop or that cruise entirely over the last three years?
Remember, there's no 10 discount for items on sale.

Having to post via T-Mobile roaming with tethering in port because “The best WiFi on the sea” has been down for Sky Princess passengers for THREE cursed days.  Even Fitbit watches won’t update the time without the Fitbit app having an Internet connection.


Sky Princess – no passenger Internet days 6-7-8

•   A little after midnight, Friday March 24, all passengers experienced the beginning of a complete loss of Internet.  During the day Friday I visited the Internet Café three times to seek outage  information.  The story was we changed satellites, Princess headquarters knows about the outage, we expect Internet to be back on the last sea day (7 days from now), the ship will put out a notice, and we’ll determine if OBC refund adjustments are appropriate later.  The notice never came but I know from past experience that Madeira (funchal) Portugal on Sunday will have T-Mobile roaming to get email and possibly post this message independently of “the worst WiFi on the sea.”
Oh well, it par for Princess I suppose.

•   The prices listed on the laundry tally sheet are higher that what is actually changed and then  Elite credited.

As long as it's zeroed out.


•    There is no passenger library on the Sky Princess.  The ship did schedule a passenger book exchange get-together.
On the Enchanted, it moved each day.

•   Small hot chocolate in International Café costs $3.54
I swear, they've raised their prices to drive people to purchase on of those packages.

•   Very loud Irish band played in the Atrium yesterday.  Most days they have seemingly all day dance classes in the atrium.
That's a change.


•   Only certain Princess Theater shows have reserved seating.

It's the production shows only, for now.

•   We’ve only had one cast show in a week.
Wow.

•   In Horizon Court the juice glasses are very small. You can ask for two.  Gun ginger ale was free.
Those small glasses have been that way for a while not but you can ask for a large glass.
Free Ginger ale is definitely something new and I wouldn't expect it to last very long.
 
•   Ocean Now cabin delivery food was of poor quality.
 

•   So far no ship wide blood drives or helicopter evacuations which is a good thing.

What’s funny is Princess T.P. Is labeled “Double Layer” but is the thinest 1 ply paper ever made.
We had that situation with the Enchanted tissues last Dec. You needed 2 of them to do the job of 1.


In conclusion: How Princess can get away with their high priced passenger Internet being out for days with no refund is inexcusable. Thankfully T-Mobile international cell phone roaming with tethering for no extra cost in ports is now the only way to communicate from the Sky Princess.  Otherwise we are safe and sound as we sail the ocean blue to see new ports. POST CONTINUES ON PAGE TWO OF THIS THREAD.