Princess Chatter

The worst part about a cruise is leaving it. This fact has hit us hard these past few days after spending a wonderful time on the Sky Princess during a media-invited trip.

Is this your comment or from the article?
From what I see in their article it appears to be just another typical Royall class ship, not anything different from the rest of the fleet.

"In total, you can expect that 34-42% of what you spend on your cruise fare will be in the form of onboard spending."

According to the article, we are not normal cruisers. Maybe once many years ago we might have spent 2 to 3 hundred dollars additional but lately if we spend $20, it's a lot. We can also live without their expensive "packages" without feeling deprived.

  Since the Sun is staying in the Med for a while repairs should be easier.  Princess has accepted the ship so issues are probably fixable in fairly short order.

By the time I book it, all the kinks will be fixed. 

With most of the ship now buying a "package" lately, they don't have much say about the gratuities anyway. Unless you have a real complaint about something that's gone wrong during the cruise, your sort of stuck.
We'll buy their package sometimes, and sometimes not depending on how I feel.
For our money it's just a waste as the internet isn't something I need and 15 drinks a day is way over my limit at my age.

The real question is, what to do with all that OBC if I don't use it for gratuities?
Casino, perhaps?

I hope they enjoy it.

Last cruise to Trinidad we didn't even bother getting off the ship.

Like Princess actually had a choice in making the change.