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Cruising Tips Chatter / Re: How to maximize all of your On Board Cabin Credits (OBC's)
« on: January 23, 2016, 07:47:10 AM »
Quote from: Host Mike on May 14, 2014, 11:31:22 AM
Princess now seems to be carrying over your unused Internet minutes from the first leg of a B2B to the second leg.  :D
Yes but if it's a B2B2B you had better use up the minutes carried over from the first leg & start using at least some of the minutes of the second leg minutes before the start of the third leg or you lose the second legs minutes. After the first carry over you'd still be using the first legs minutes. If you don't start the second legs minutes before the end of the second leg is over they will automatically be cancelled & not eligible for any carry over. I suppose the carried over from the first leg might be carried over to the third leg but I didn't try that.
A continued carry over is something they didn't take into consideration when they wrote the program.

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Cruising Tips Chatter / Re: How to maximize all of your On Board Cabin Credits (OBC's)
« on: January 20, 2016, 08:54:08 AM »
Quote from: Host Mike on May 14, 2014, 11:31:22 AM
Princess now seems to be carrying over your unused Internet minutes from the first leg of a B2B to the second leg.  :D

Yes but the catch is if you're doing a B2B2B cruise or longer the minutes don't keep rolling over continuously. If you don't use all the internet minutes from the first leg they will carry over to the next leg but if you try to roll over those minutes to the next leg you will lose the minutes from the second leg because you haven't started using them. You must use up those carried over minutes & start using some of the new minutes before the end of that trip. If you begin the next leg of a B2B2B without starting to use some of the previous legs minutes you will lose the minutes of the middle leg.

They don't explain that until you complain to the internet manager about the loss and at that point it's to late to do much about it. (or so they say) 

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Princess Chatter Archive / Re: Carnival owned cruise ship Costa Concordia runs aground off Italy
« on: July 23, 2014, 07:27:01 AM »
I wonder if they've opened the room safes & returned the people's valuables yet?

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Cruising Tips Chatter / Re: How to maximize all of your On Board Cabin Credits (OBC's)
« on: June 08, 2014, 01:07:46 PM »
There you go- we don't have to fly anywhere lately.

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Cruising Tips Chatter / Re: How to maximize all of your On Board Cabin Credits (OBC's)
« on: May 20, 2014, 07:30:32 AM »
Quote from: TrishEd on May 20, 2014, 06:29:18 AM
Don't forget the Princess Credit Card. We will be leaving on the 4th of June for Alaska and have just cashed in points for $1000.00 dollars of cabin credits. We pay the card off each month, so this is free credits.

Wow. You're a big spender to get back that much.  :o We have a hard time accumulating points for $150 per cruise. 

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Cruising Tips Chatter / Re: How to maximize all of your On Board Cabin Credits (OBC's)
« on: May 17, 2014, 06:34:54 AM »
It's surprising just what they can do once you make a friend.  ;)

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Cruising Tips Chatter / Re: How to maximize all of your On Board Cabin Credits (OBC's)
« on: May 14, 2014, 11:49:38 AM »
Quote from: Host Mike on May 14, 2014, 11:31:22 AM
Princess now seems to be carrying over your unused Internet minutes from the first leg of a B2B to the second leg.  :D
Yes and no. It depends. We opened an account for both myself and my wife and didn't use any of her minutes the first week, only mine. Her account remained at 250 minutes and mine was around 30 minutes after the first cruise. The second leg I had an additional 30 minutes added to my 250 but hers didn't carry over and she only had the allotment of 250. The internet manager said it was because she didn't use any of her minutes to begin with. ???
I guess if we had used some of her minutes they might have carried over. Next B2B I'll be sure to use some from each account.

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Princess Chatter Archive / Re: Carnival owned cruise ship Costa Concordia runs aground off Italy
« on: February 27, 2014, 03:38:57 PM »
http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/27/world/europe/italy-costa-concordia/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

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Cruising Tips Chatter / Re: How to maximize all of your On Board Cabin Credits (OBC's)
« on: December 22, 2013, 08:01:48 PM »
We just returned from a 20 day cruise on the Emerald (2 - 10 day B2B) and requested an additional cruise from the Capt circle host and received it without question. I also brought along some old cruise cards & received an additional credit for a 5 year old B2B trip on the Crown.
Our Internet minutes were only applied once (250) and not bridged but the bar setup was restocked after 10 days. We have been on trips where the minutes were carried over. I suppose it all has to do with the Internet manager.
 

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Cruising Tips Chatter / Re: Promotional OBC's
« on: November 25, 2013, 09:53:29 PM »
Quote from: Host Mike on November 17, 2013, 01:38:43 PM
From time to time Princess will offer extra OBC promotions to help fill the ship.  These are for "new" bookings only.  (Or Not)  ;)  ;)

We took advantage of that one time about 2 years ago & haven't seen one since. It doubled the FCC credit & you could also use the best price offered by your TA.

We're about to leave on a 20 day trip & will request 2 cruise credits since we booked it as 1 trip although it was offered as 2 10 dayers.
I'll also taking some old cruise cards from a few years back (2- 7 days booked as a 14 day trip) & see if they give me extra credit for that one also.

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Princess Chatter Archive / Re: Carnival owned cruise ship Costa Concordia runs aground off Italy
« on: January 15, 2013, 07:43:44 AM »
They had an hour program on the Discovery channel or NATGEO channel the other night a which was supposed to be about the removal of the ship. It turned into another program mostly about the incident with the last 10 minutes dedicated to how they're going to turn the ship & float it to away.
Good thing I recorded it & could skip past the old stuff.  ;)

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Princess Chatter Archive / Re: Carnival owned cruise ship Costa Concordia runs aground off Italy
« on: November 05, 2012, 10:53:03 AM »
Interesting project. I never liked Costa but I suppose the loyal Costa fans will be dieing to see the ship if it ever floats again.   ::)

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Princess Chatter Archive / Re: Carnival owned cruise ship Costa Concordia runs aground off Italy
« on: November 05, 2012, 09:27:13 AM »
I haven't been keeping up with the removal progress but how is it going? The last I heard is that they were going to cut it into manageable pieces to be lifted onto barges.

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Princess Chatter Archive / Re: Carnival owned cruise ship Costa Concordia runs aground off Italy
« on: October 16, 2012, 07:32:28 AM »
Quote from: Host Mike on October 15, 2012, 07:28:02 PM
"Francesco Schettino, the captain of the Costa Concordia, has launched legal action to get his job back, nine months after the luxury cruise liner capsized with the loss of 32 lives.

Captain Francesco Schettino is also claiming back pay, after it emerged that he had been dismissed by Costa Cruises, the company that owns the Concordia, in July.

"Costa Crociere confirms that it has concluded the disciplinary procedure against Schettino, following the sinking of the Costa Concordia, ordering his dismissal," the company said in a statement."

http://www.travelmole.com/news_feature.php?c=setreg&region=3&m_id=_rms~~AY!v&w_id=8339&news_id=2003472

If they do reinstate him as a captain I can only wonder what that would do to the image of any of the other captains as well as the stock price.
Would anyone feel comfortable sailing with someone like that.  ::)

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Princess Chatter Archive / Re: Carnival owned cruise ship Costa Concordia runs aground off Italy
« on: July 06, 2012, 12:13:48 PM »
I wonder if the Capt had an armed guard for security when he walks around town.

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