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Princess Cruise Lines tours and restaurants level of service

Re Part tour of Europe and Baltic Cruise 10/8/2017-29/8/2017

Member #: 635606084C GW2H2G

Dear sir,

We were part of this cruise which ended in Copenhagen on the 29/8/2017. Our room number was 604.

We were your customers on the land section of this cruise. We do have some complaints with regards to the standards of restaurants used by your land tour operator, and some of the tours that were of no value to us, the castle tour especially!
1. We believe that the quality and content of the food provided to us during this period of the land tour was very inferior to the price we paid for the cruise, especially the restaurant in Vienna, where (5) five of the group were sick and a doctor had to be called to the hotel to examine these people and the restaurant in Berlin which according to your brochure

Quote: " it is the finest restaurant in Berlin " and in actual fact it was probably not more than a two star restaurant, no Michelin restaurants here!

I was really disgusted with the menu, all the food presented to us was " Pork, Pork, Pork " in different forms. I asked for a steak and salad and was refused. So that evening I finished up with nothing to eat, even though I paid for a so-called sumptuous meal in the finest restaurant in Berlin! Ha Ha.

We will not be recommending your cruise line to any of our friends. We even found out that our American friends had a choice to choose their cabin before we set sail, whereas we Australians did not. Why do you have different standards, that in my language is called discrimination!
We enjoyed the food on board the ship and the tours that we attended to very very informative, although everything was RUSH RUSH RUSH, we feel that we should have had more time on these tours considering we paid over $A17, 000.

We hope for a positive response from you.

Yours truly

Joseph and Sheila Bianco

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Mr & Mrs S Hogan 11 Rickard Street Ryde. NSW 2112 Australia 5th August 2017
Your Ref # GNMQ4J – Golden Princess – 75day, Circle Pacific Cruise, Mini suite D210
Dear Sir or Madam
Two important, incidents seriously impacted on the enjoyment of our recent cruise – we were always tense and worried, wondering when this noise was coming back, and we were afraid to use our balcony from fear of something dropping on us again.
1) Avery loud banging noise in our Mini suite, in the very early hours of the morning, between 4.00am and 5.00am. This went on continuously for more than 5 days in a row, before anything was done. Other people in adjoining cabins also experienced this noise and complained, ie: about this very loud and annoying banging and hammering noise. It did stop for a day or so, but then returned again, then for a couple of days, then later it miraculously ceased - no apologies or explanations were provided or given, as to its cause or how it was fixed – or if it was going to possibly happen again and again? The anxiety each night was a real pain – was it going to occur again early the following morning? This was not a cheap inside cabin – this was fully priced mini suite $62, 000.00 for 75 days. What a disappointment and a what rip off – our room was in a poor state of repair!
2) A large wine glass was dropped or thrown from the open deck, on level 15 which struck the steel dividing panel between our two dividing balconies, shattering and showering us with tiny glass fragments and fine particles of broken glass. I still cannot believe how we missed having these glass particles in our eyes, as we were sitting down on the balcony at the time, when we were sprayed and showered with these fine shattered glass fragments. The shattered, long arrow shaped, jagged glass stem, narrowly missed, spearing and penetrating my daughters head – it missed her head by millimetres. It is a miracle that no one was seriously injured or killed by this dangerous act. We were splattered with sharp, finely shattered and splintered glass fragments from the wine glass –frightening and unbelievable.
My concern and complaint is as follows:- Why did it take so long to find and fix this noise problem, and when it was supposedly fixed, how did this problem then continue to re-occur. Why we were not informed, as to what the problem was, and what was fixed, so we had peace of mind, that it would not re-occur. Basic common decency and manners should dictate, that people should be told and reassured, what the problem was, and that it had been fixed – honestly, is that asking too much, I don’t think so?
Now to the more serious matter, of being showered by glass fragments from a shattered wine glass, which was dropped or thrown from the open deck level 15 down onto us, as we sat innocently on the balcony of our mini suite. This is a very serious safety matter, where our health and well being was not properly protected by your officers and the security staff on board. When this serious incident occurred, I phoned the Pursers desk and asked if a senior officer could come down immediately to our cabin and balcony to see, examine and investigate this very serious and dangerous incident immediately. None was forthcoming, in fact I had to ring the Pursers desk 3 times, as no one came and there was finely shattered glass fragments all over our balcony floor – it was impossible to step anywhere on our balcony without standing on shattered glass fragments. After quite some time, a couple of cleaners came to sweep and clean up the glass. I asked them where was the senior officer, to see this mess before they cleaned it up – they just shrugged their shoulders, as if to say they didn’t know – they were told to clean it up. What sort of response is that, when people are sitting innocently on their balcony minding their own business, and then they are showered by fragments of a shattered wine glass and nearly speared in the head by the long, arrow shaped stem. (I have taken a photo of this glass stem to prove my point). What I’m trying to say is, this was not some sort of minor, harmless occurrence –innocent people’s lives could have been destroyed for ever – losing their sight, with glass fragments in their eyes or worse still speared in the head or face with the narrow stem of the wine glass. When some serious incident like this happens, there should be a serious mandatory investigation into who or what had caused this incident. How did it occur (was it a accident or was it people fooling around on deck 15), and what precautions should be taken to ensure this sort of incident does not occur again. I don’t think that’s asking too much?
What really upset and annoyed me was, a senior chap did turned up about an hour or more after the incident occurred – he was not apologetic or overly concerned. I explained that after this incident occurred, a woman on level 15 had pointed down to us, indicating who it was that had dropped or thrown the glass, if this matter had been acted on promptly and immediately, the perpetrator of the act could have been found, identified and made to explain why and how this occurred – also surveillance tapes could have been checked to see who carried out this dangerous act – accidental or otherwise? I do not believe the staff acted appropriately to protect us, after our health and well being was threatened and put at serious risk – their concern and interest was minimal. In fact, I said to the officer who attended and later to a more senior officer on the phone (I think his Christian name was Martin and he had an English accent), that I was going to take this matter further when I got home, and I asked him, would you have treated this matter so causally, if it was him or a member of his family that this had happened to? – no comment, what sort of response is that?.
Princess needs to lift its act, with regards to customer safety and their complaints and their service generally, otherwise long term passengers will vote with their feet. You only had to talk to people on board the ship on this last cruise, to find out how many have cancelled their pre-booked cruises. We have already booked on the 106 day around the world cruise which leaves Australia in early June 2018 next year Sydney to Sydney on the Sea Princess. We are seriously thinking of cancelling this cruise on the Sea Princess, we await your response and reply.
We are loyal, long term Elite, Princess Cruisers. – We are also Elite on Cunard, so we are long term cruisers. In fact this year alone 2017, we completed the 84 day around South America, Sydney to Sydney just prior to joining this 74 day Pacific Circle, Sydney to Sydney cruise. This last cruise cost us nearly $62, 000.00 and it turned out to be disappointing and a absolute nightmare – we had the mini suite “from hell”, the floor tiles in the bathroom kept lifting off and sticking to our feet, lights that would not work or contumely blinked, our fold out lounge was in such a poor state of disrepair, we had an old lump of 4” x 3” block of wood, which was strategically positioned and placed, to hold up the damaged or faulty steel frame in position, the door handle on our balcony sliding door was nearly falling off – you had to carefully juggle it, to close it. We were frightened to use our balcony, with the fear that something else was going to drop on us, and then being woken up early at ungodly hours from our sleep 4.00 and 5.00 am, with loud hammering and banging noises in our room. People say you pay for what you get. Sadly we paid a very high price for what we didn’t get – shame on Princess for treating, 2 long term, loyal, Elite customers, so disdainfully and so poorly. Why employ security staff who chose to ignore serious, dangerous and hazardous acts. Who for reasons best known to themselves, superficially and neglectfully treat complaints and grievances, who cannot be bothered, and who tell people to take the matter up, whenever and with ever they want, when they get home, off the ship – what sort of customer service, treatment and/or behaviour is that – is any staff member on board accountable for their action or their inaction?
I hope I get some sort feed back and a positive response to this long and detailed letter. Otherwise you leave us with no other alternative or option, than to look further a field, at another cruise line, not linked to Carnival and/or its subsidiaries. We will also ensure that we post our experiences, thoughts and grievances on Cruise Critic for all those interested Cruiser out there, to see and to be fully informed and aware, in precise detail, how poorly and shabbily we have been treated by Princess, and why it would be better to look elsewhere. We await your reply. “Our mini suite from hell”, our room number was D210. I dare say, the maintenance issues I mentioned, are still there – some fragments of the broken glass, still laying on balcony floor, the floor tiles still lifting off the bathroom floor, every time you walk into the bathroom, all the lights not working, the large lump of wood, wedge into position to hold up and support the steel frame of the sofa lounge, and the sliding door handle, loose and difficult to use, ie: to close the sliding door properly.
We encouraged and paid for our daughter to join us on this cruise, she is a High School Teacher. She has sadly walked away with a very disappointing and poor impression of Princess, their customer service and relationship and cruising in general. I’m sure she will go back to school to share and paint a very tainted and poor impression of her experience of Princess and this cruise, with her colleagues and her students – I say shame on Princess. I will be sending this letter to Princess cruises in Sydney and America and Carnival’s Head office in America for their action and response.
Yours faithfully Stan and Julie Hogan

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Princess Cruise Lines card charges

Barry & Wendy Taylor

we returned from a cruise yesterday 20/7/17 Sun Princess VLD13G cruise booking number - Noumea - New Caledonia cruise Brisbane - Brisbane 10 August 2017 returned 20 August 2017

We noticed charges doubled up
12/7 $46.98 from our personal credit card which is shown on our bank statement
13/7 $47.92 on our bank statement
15/7 $51.91 on our bank statement

We then notice we have paid our cruise account which includes these same amounts
13/7 $47.40
14/15/7 $51.35

How come these charges are on our own personal bank account plus on the cruise card
Have we been charged twice

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Princess Cruise Lines everything

Our cruise voyage number was 8721 disembarking from Singapore to Shanghai on the majestic princess. Our cruise date was June 18 until July 9. We have cruised with Princess for 90 sea days and this is the first time I can truly say we were disappointed in many things. On day of disembarkation there was no one outside of the terminal to give us directions or assist us and my husband is in a wheelchair. The things I'm complaining about might seem trivial to the company but after spending 15, 000.00 for cruise, flights, visas and money spent on board and in the ports I think we are justified. I tried to buy a paperback book three days into the cruise and was told there weren't any more because this was a Chinese cruise. I heard this same expression at least 20 times during the cruise. We asked where the map of the voyage was as the husbands liked to look at it. Again I was told by an officer there wasn't one but low and behold two weeks into the trip we found it in the art gallery again poor communications among the staff. We chose to eat at the dining room on deck 5, the first day I asked where the menu was and was told I would have to go to deck 16 to see the menu. I asked many times why and was told different reasons, finally after complains to the front desk and many officers I met with the head of the dinning rooms and low and behold the next day the menu was on a table out side of our dining room it only took two weeks to correct this simple request. The internee cafe was another source of frustrations, one person and two terminals for 3500 passengers. My husband owns his own business and needed to check his email daily, we were told that this ship is again for the Chinese and they bring their own tablets, phones ect. We did bring our tablet only to have it break in Singapore. You can imagine my husband confined to a wheel chair having to wait some times up to an hour or just leave. There wasn't one day that I didn't encounter toilets out of order in the public restrooms. One day I went to the front desk to complain about something, the phone was ringing and ringing there were four front desk staff present talking to each other, my person was in the back looking for a supervisor. I finally couldn't take it any longer and asked if anyone was going to pick up the phone which they did and sure enough it was a guest asking for assistance. I know there are things beyond Princess control but the way customs was handled in Hong Kong and Korea have got to be fixed. We had to go though customs in Hong Kong with every one else and it took us two hours to get back on the ship. Korea everyone was given a specific time to leave and of course no one stuck to their times and the times were not enforced by the staff. The worse part we encountered and I vowed at that time was disembarkation at Shanghai . 3500 passengers, 7000 pieces of luggage and no one who spoke English outside to help, again imagine my husband in a wheelchair and me trying to find three pieces of luggage. The only thing that was very positive is you have two employees that are an asset to your company. Harry Sui front desk personal who remembered my name as we became good friends with all my trips to the front desk, he was pleasant and attempted to help me as best as he could, the other person was our cabin Stewart Tomislau Gicev he went above and beyond to assist my husband and we are truly grate full. I don't have the booking number of our cruise our names are Lynette Smith and Ignacio Naranjo we were cruising with another couple Donayda and Guillermo Alonso. I would appreciate if some one could respond to this letter and just not ignore us as we have already given deposits for future cruises which will depend if Princess wants us to continue as customers.

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Princess Cruise Lines quality of 'onboard experience' dvd

Cruise ref: GR9J8R. Folio: 1753. Stateroom A635 Sea Princess voyage from Fremantle to Dover. I purchased a DVD mainly for the Pop Choir concert which I was a member, as a memento for myself and to show my family. Unfortunately the quality of the sound in particular was very poor, and is not a true reflection of how the performance sounded on the day. Some voices are louder than others and some sound like a solo performance. Pity there's no opportunity to view before buying. I am very disappointed, it is overpriced and not a good copy. I paid $24.99 AUD. I want a refund, or a better quality DVD. I have twice emailed princess cruises.com on 17/07/17 & 24/07/17 and been given a generic reply and booking ref: Q27888, and to date had no further response.

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Princess Cruise Lines poor standard of coaches on excursions, food and entertainment standard

Myself and my husband have returned from a cruise on the Royal Princess Cruise ship from Athens around the Greek Islands on June 9th 2017 for 7 days.
Firstly my husbands case turned up within an hour of boarding the ships, we arrived at the terminal around 11:30, my case didn't turn up until 6.30pm. The reason for this was due to the fact they thought I had a syringe in my case which I understand but why couldn't they have informed me 5 hours earlier? I spend most of the first day hunting down my case unable to change into something more appropriate for the facilities of the ship. A couple of days later we went on our first excursion pre-booked with princess only to find the coach we were on had no air conditioning as it didn't work, no seat belts and quite frankly not fit for purpose. The weather was around 35 degrees outside the coach so inside it felt like double, I found this extremely stressful but after complaining once back on the ship we did eventually receive 40% refund, however I really don't think this was much of a gesture. Then the following day we went on another excursion again pre booked through Princess and again no air conditioning but this time another coach was sent out. Now forgive me if I'm wrong but I was under the impression that the Royal Princess is a 5* luxury cruise ship. I was also very disappointed in the standard of food in the main restaurants, I do not think a burger was fine dining, I expect that in the buffet restaurant which was far better than the main restaurants. Several people did say that the standard had slipped. I also found the entertainment very dated, where were the west end shows - not even one, instead a dated magician, singer and comedian. I have to say I've been on 2 cruises in the past one with P&O and one with Thompson and both food and entertainment were much better. Finally on the last day we were told to be off the ship by 10am out of our cabins by 8am, it just felt like we were discarded immediately. Our flight wasn't till 9pm that evening, luckily we did book a hotel room nearby but I have never felt so unwanted on a cruise ship before, I suppose we were lucky they allowed us to have breakfast!

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Princess Cruise Lines inadequate choice of gluten free foods in the michelangelo dining room

I have been utterly disappointed with our last cruise on the Crown Princess - Baltic Heritage - 3 June to 17 June 2017 regarding gluten free. I have Coeliac Disease and have done so for 30 years and have cruised with Princess Cruises many times and have always been treated so well by the Head waiter who has always gone out of his way to help me... on this occasion the desserts were absolutely disgusting ... tapioca ... a chefs special! I only found out towards the end of the cruise that the Horizon Court served up up gluten free cakes and pies! and they were delicious. I find it very hard to justify a "chef's special" like tapioca and strawberries and cream, and some other awful kind of brown jelly concoction when there are such delights in the Horizon Court. I did mention this to the head waiter and one would have thought that he would have sent someone to go and fetch a nice cake or fruit pie from there instead of giving me such awful desserts. The pizzas made on deck with gluten free flour were disgusting they were all soggy and inedible. The bread in the Michaelangelo dining room sometimes took 30 minutes for it to be toasted. One evening the bread was inedible even toasted. On the second to last night I was persuaded by my head waiter to come back to the Michaelangelo dining room as I had started to go to the Horizon Court and I was given a choice of 3 types if gluten free bread, ordinary white, sundried tomato and herb bread. This was a very welcome change and I said to the head waiter it is a pity I did not have this from the start and he said better late than never! I have been so disappointed this time around by the gluten free issue that I shall be looking at other cruise lines where other Coeliac passengers have given me recommendations. I completed the survey on my return from the cruise and asked that someone should get back to me but I have heard absolutely nothing.

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Princess Cruise Lines maitre d' rude response and unfriendly service to our group of 41 pax from the philippines

I have attached a jpeg copy of our complaint regarding the services maid by your Matrie D' during our Cruise at Majestic Princess last May 5 to 14, 2017.

Last May 7 to 14, 2017 we were a group of Presidents, Stockholders of 12 companies and their family traveling on your Majestic Princess. We are loyal Princess customers; some of us having done 6 or more cruises. This was our first time to be declined to sit together by your Maitre ‘D even if we made prior arrangements in Manila four (4) months before departure. We tried again because we wanted to be together just once a day and we were told we were too big a group. We contacted our Manila office because we were not allowed to speak to someone higher than your Maitre ‘D.

Please find the attached document for your perusal and appropriate action.

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Princess Cruise Lines dawn princess cruise 12th may 2017

Hello, We booked this cruise as a getaway following my husband's ill health. Princess Cruises was highly recommended to us. The cruise was the Dawn's last cruise and Princess let down its loyal customers (many of whom had booked the Dawn for sentimental reasons). The company ran out of many drinks (Stout, Gin, Johnny Walker Red and Black and Red Wine unless it was top of the range at $80 - $120 per bottle). Our toilet was blocked for 5 of the 12 days and many cruisers had to use the public toilets! Food was also winding down and towards the end of the cruise, fresh fruit, prunes etc was non existent. Air conditioning in the dining areas was so bad that the waitresses were carrying portable hand held fans. The casino was shut early in order to have the machines serviced for handover to P & O. Entertainment during the day was extremely limited. Shops were shut midway during the cruise for stocktaking! Staff were constantly apologising and were fabulous considering the awkward position that their employer had put them in. I am hoping that Princess is going to offer a reimbursement to all passengers. No comparison to our wonderful Holland America Cruises!

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Princess Cruise Lines art purchased onboard an alaskan cruise from a company named princess fine art

My husband and I purchased a painting on a cruise in August 2016 and it has yet to arrive. They claimed to have shipped at end of September/beginning of October, but we received no delivery notice, email or call.

Once I found the paperwork, I contacted them in January 2017. I was told it would be reshipped. I gave additional email and phone contact info. Called them again a month later Feb 22 2017 and was told that shopping would be expedited. Called them again today, March 13th and was told that it was being expedited AGAIN and I should receive in two weeks.

This is a scam and I cannot believe that Princess Art is not owned by Princess Cruises.

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My wife and I took our daughter to Alaska in May 2017 to celebrate her graduation from College. We had a wonderful trip, service and excursions. We attended an art auction and bid on a painting which we purchased for more than $1, 000 US. It is now September 20th. We received an email on August 28 which said sorry but will get it to you soon. I would have appreciated a call from Park West explaining the delay and what efforts were being made to complete the transaction. On a previous cruise in 2016 I took my wife on a cruise to the Caribbean to celebrate our 30th Anniversary. Again we enjoyed the service and excursions. We attended an art auction and bid for a sculpture. After being home 4 months I called the customer service for the Art company and was told someone would get back to me. That never happened but a couple weeks later our sculpture showed up at our front door. I've never complained to Princess about anything but I think I see a pattern here. Please be aware of the impact your vendors can have on your customers overall Princess experience. Thank you, Dru Butterfield dru1856@gmail.com

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Princess Cruise Lines unethical booking issue

One of our favorite pass-times on Princess is relaxing in the Sanctuary on the various ships. Reservations for specific loungers and chairs in the Sanctuary cannot be made on line but rather must be made in person and it's first come first served. Years ago we made the mistake of boarding at 2:00 or 3:00 P.M. and there was almost nothing left. Accordingly, we always make sure to be at the head of the boarding line to get our pick of the locations. The problem is their brand new "progressive boarding procedure".

When we made our reservations for the upcoming cruise on the Royal Princess there was no mention of this procedure. In fact there has been no mention of it on any of our correspondence from Princess until just yesterday (March 6th). I've saved copies of every e-mail with our booking summaries. No we are informed that due to the deck we will be on, that we won't be able to board until 2:30. This isn't fair and had we been told at the time of booking, we'd have chosen a cabin on another deck instead (only one deck up) to board at 12:00. Unless we are able to board at the earlier time we will almost certainly not get our preferred locations in the Sanctuary and possibly find it fully booked. If this would happen our trip will be ruined.

The only solution would be issuing us priority boarding passes. So far all we get is "there is nothing that we can do". Our confirmation number is MMCD2W and the cruise departs in 12 days.

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Princess Cruise Lines customer service

We are booked on the Grand Princess, 15 day Hawaii Cruise (October 29).
I attempted to reach Jessica Boykin, to change our dining choice from anytime to traditional. When I booked this cruise it was because of a credit my husband and I received due to a bad experience on a prior cruise on Emerald Princess. I also was attempting to book air transportation to San Francisco. I called the end of October 2016, when I called the call went to a recording having me follow many prompts. The system had me on hold for well over 15 minutes and all of a sudden the call dropped back to the original message from Jessica that she was on an extended leave and if needing to speak to someone follow the prompts. A company as large as Princess I would think that they would have their act together and automatically send her calls to another agent to assist passengers in her absence. Because of the hassle I just decided to book my own air, and wait until she returned from leave. Finally I heard back in January, I sent Jessica all the information of our friends, that I convinced to accompany us on this cruise requesting we be seated together at the traditional dining. I also sent a request to Jessica inquiring if Princess did any one way fares because one of my co-workers has a daughter living in Honolulu and would like to join us at least to Hawaii. I never heard anything back and it's been over a month. I booked through Princess because of the 250 credit but encouraged our friends to book through Costco they offered the same exact thing but offered 600.00 onboard credit, looking back I should have booked through Costco I would have been $350.00 ahead. I did receive a e-mail from Jessica a couple of weeks ago but had nothing to do with our current cruise but trying to sell us another cruise. If you can't fulfill my requests on this cruise why would I consider taking another cruise with Princess. I, as well as you understand there are other Cruise companies and I am trying to give Princess a second chance but at this rate I can't see there being a third.

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Princess Cruise Lines princess cancelled our trip then added insult to injury...

My husband and I were scheduled to celebrate his 70th birthday on the Pacific Princess, sailing October 16, 2016. Less than 24 hours prior to our departure time we received an email from Princess saying the ship had run into rocks, putting it out of commission. We understand these things happen and are thankful no one was hurt. Our complaint is how Princess has handled things since. Immediately after receiving the email we phoned Princess to confirm the email wasn't a hoax. They confirmed that it was not and during this conversation assured us the price we paid for this cruise would be honored for the cruise in the future. The following day we attempted to book the closest available cruise (same number of days, same region, same category). We were then quoted a price nearly three times the cost of the cruise they cancelled. They refused to honor the price we paid and told us we could keep checking back and see if the cost went down in the future. To add additional insult to injury, we then found the "full refund" they advertised to the public we would receive did not include the cost of the Vacation Protection we purchased. So, it's costing us $209.28 for a cruise Princess cancelled less than 24 hours of our departure date. Does this sound like a cruise line you want to book with? We have been on over 60 cruises (not all with Princess but we are Platinum members with them) and have never encountered a less scrupulous company. Additionally, they refuse to put anything in writing. Buyer Beware!

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We are on the Pacific Princess starting in Venice on Nov 21. Looking at our Princess policy (Allianz), “Trip cancellation coverage begins on your plan’s effective date, as long as you have paid the premium.” “All other coverage begins on your scheduled departure date.”

“Trip cancellation coverage: Payments and deposits you made before your trip was canceled, less any published refunds you’re entitled to.”

Sounds to me like the insurance policy was activated for the Trip Cancellation portion, so coverage exists for money paid out the line doesn’t reimburse, and no refund on insurance premium possible as insurance was in effect. Granted, the ccruise line is probably going to give all money back, (not the insurance premium though)in our case anyway, we are only covered up 1 K, since the cruise line will no doubt reimburse all anyway, no big deal.

“Trip cancellation coverage----When it applies-----Your trip is cancelled before you get started---for one of the following reasons”:

-----“Cancelled services-----Your cruise line stops offering all services for at least 24 consecutive hours where you’re departing because of:
1. Severe Weather
2. Natural Disaster
Reason----------“-------Pacific Princess experienced an unexpected change in wind conditions and made contact with the breakwater wall resulting in damage to the port side of the ship under the water line.---
As a result of this incident we have made the decision to end the current cruise early so that necessary repairs can be made to the ship----.
Unfortunately, this required us to cancel the current voyage that was scheduled to depart on October 16, so that necessary repairs could be made to the ship.”

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Princess Cruise Lines discrimination

I received an email offer from Princess Cruises Casinos for a complimentary one-week cruise (not covering sundry expenses) sailing in November 2016. But as I read through the conditions for eligibility, this was their stipulation: Offer only available to residents of the US or Canada (offer not available to residents of Québec). Being from Québec City, this exception to Québec disturbed me so I decided to find out the motive behind it.

I called the number provided on the offer on Saturday, June 11 at 11h20, and spoke with Chandra. I asked her to find my profile on their system and read to me my home address, which she did. I then repeated the offer from Princess to her, including the part about Québec, and wanting an explanation for disallowing this province. She did not have an answer for me. I was put on ‘hold’ for quite some time, after which she returned, informing me that she had spoken with her supervisor who recommended I contact the ‘Yield Department’ at Princess in the course of the following week.

So on Tuesday June 14, at 17h15, I phoned Princess once again (they are based in California), and asked for the ‘Yield Department’. Shakira, who answered my call, would not transfer me to that department, but attempted to take care of my inquiry herself. Once again, I was dealing with a person who wasn’t qualified to explain the reasoning behind such a company policy. From that moment, I was literally given the run-around. First supervisor, Heather, replied to Shakira that Princess did not have my full home address and therefore made the error of sending me the invitation, but that they’d make an exception and honor their offer to me. They did have my address, since Chandra, on Saturday, had pulled it up without a problem. In total, I was kept on hold close to 40 minutes, as so-called supervisors succeeded each other in passing the buck. Finally, Marissa advised Shakira to tell me that I should contact Princess Cruises Customer Relations via email. She did not have a particular name for me to address my concern .

So I had come full circle, with no more explanation than when I started.

What does it all mean? Can cruise lines actually discriminate in such a manner? What was their rationale for rejecting Québec? And why aren’t they transparent about their practices if such practices are indeed justifiable?

I thought I’d give you a heads-up on this matter and maybe even on related issues, as they might be more prevalent than we suspect. Personally, I’m incredibly disappointed in the way Princess has dealt with the entire affair and I’ve lost faith in them

Sandra Theriault

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Princess Cruise Lines family cruise

The following complaint has been dismissed by Lisa 08238 Via phone call of 4/7/16. She did not see anything wrong with the activity described below.

I asked for upper management to review and call me. I received a phone call today 4/8/16. The following complaint has also been dismissed by Sandy Smith [protected]. She stated she spoke to the Captain of the Ship and the Captain said there were no groups or such activity on the ship.
SEE ADVERTISEMENTS AND GFAFIC VIDEOS PHOTOS BELOW AS PROOF.

BOOKING THE CRUISE
November 17, 2015 we booked and paid for 3 cabins for a family cruise for the 1/31–2/7/16 Mexican Riviera on the Ruby Princess from San Pedro through Princess Cruises directly at [protected]. Cabin 301 MVL5G, Cabin 307 mVL6R, Cabin 309 MVL5V.

The ship was delayed leaving port from the standard 4:00 pm until 11:30 pm nearly 8 hours due to a major storm front out at sea. From the time we arrived, we were uncomfortable with some of the activity that was taking place on the ship from some of the on-board groups. I asked a crew member if we can disembark being I saw some people still boarding this cruise due to some of the activity happening on the ship that we were uncomfortable with that we saw and I was told NO. Therefore my family spent most of the time being uncomfortable due to Princess majority blocked out spaces to allow several extremist groups activity taking over and Princess being well aware of the activity that would being taking place on their family oriented cruise ship. This cruise was far from a family oriented cruise as advertised. This was a Princess organized more like a private sex club boat cruise.

IT WAS AN EXTREMIST SIDE OF A GAY THEMED CRUISE AND IT WAS NOT DISCLOSED
(SEE EXTREMIST BEAR DRAG QUEEN AND GAY CRUISE ADVERTISEMENTS AND CRUISE PHOTOS ATTACHED). MANY ADDITIONAL VERY GRAPHIC PHOTOS AND VIDEOS AVAILABLE.
The Ruby Princess January 31 through February 7, 2016 was an extremist drag queen bear gay themed cruise quite full and it was undisclosed to us when we booked the cruise and it was undisclosed to us when we checked in at Registration. We understand that Princess does not ask travelers about their religion, sex or creed, and we do not have any issues with the LGBT groups, however we discovered after being on the cruise that this cruise was preplanned and advertised for nearly a year in advance for Princess to host extremist side of the gay community groups on this particular sail and to close off many public areas on the ship for the 5 or more separate these extremist gay groups that were on board. Some of the passengers from some of the groups were even unaware themselves of the other extremist drag queen groups and massive extremist group bookings on this cruise as well as other gay couples we talked to during supper and they were insulted as well and in speaking with other gay couples during dinner, they made a comment that this themed cruise was not their cup of tea and they were insulted that they were not informed of this extremist group activity. The couple also noted that there was open sex in public areas and there were children and family around in these areas. I am NOT exaggerating or making this up.
(SEE EXTREMIST DRAG GAY CRUISE ADVERTISEMENTS CRUISE PHOTOS ATTACHED).

Princess Cruises forced me to feel uncomfortable as I was sitting at the pool area watching the public demonstration of sexual conduct and lewdness. There were adults and children of all ages surrounding the pool and food areas. The extreme lewdness behavior of sexual conduct was offensive.

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Princess Cruises forced me to feel uncomfortable as I was sitting in the main theater trying to enjoy a show.
I wandered into the Princess Main Theater to sit down and watch a movie. Just before the movie started, there was some sort of comedy stage show taking place such as Michael Jackson shaking
his cum off his baby over the balcony railing of his hotel room. I was shocked of the live content of the sexual comments. There were dirty cum jokes and etc. The movie started and I noticed the theater was filled with extremist drag queens in drag beating the air with hangers throughout scenes of the movie. I was so insulted I walked out of the theater.

Throughout the cruise in the evening hours in the clubs were mostly dedicated by Princess Cruises to these 5 gay hardcore groups. I am NOT exaggerating or making this up.

(SEE EXTREMIST DRAG QUEEN BEAR GAY CRUISE ADVERTISEMENTS AND CRUISE PHOTOS ATTACHED).
One of the nights Happy Hour was noted in The Princess Patter in Sky Walkers, which is near the children's game center. Upon entering Sky Walkers, I walked into Sky Walkers of nearly 300 men naked down to G Strings. I walked in and looked toward the right at the dance floor and I saw raw sexual conduct taking place. I asked one of the crew “is this happy hour.” I have never seen happy hour like this before. The crew said this is a private club and I said “No it is not, it is in the Patter.” And, one of the extremist Drag guys said they were just thrown out of Club Fusion. I said “WOW” I can see why. Right next to the shops and open public area. One of these extremist group members got into a conversation with me and said we are all going “ALL BLUE.” I asked what Blue is.? He said we are stripping down?

As I walked out a crew member peeked in the doorway and I asked him if Princess allows this conduct because I have never seen anything like this on any family cruise. This resembles a private sex club in an offbeat area of a major city. The crew member said there are so many on this sail, smiled, shrugged his shoulder and walked away. After 9pm, throughout the cruise, this ship turned into nearly a total wild hard core sex club at sea. Most of the families on board tried to stay only at the center of the ship atrium area due to the issues on board.

One day I walked into a full sauna, looked like a grizzly bears den. After 10 minutes as I was walking out to go to the shower next door, I overheard a comment from one of the Bears “that little guy is hung like a horse, ” another guy said “yum yum”. This activity on the ship was unacceptable and I was very uncomfortable.

Princess Cruises should have disclosed to us that this was a special themed sail to an extremist group. There were many families with children on board and I witnessed the exposure of this activity to children on board.

THE FOOD AND THE SERVICE IN THE FORMAL DINING ROOM
The food in the formal dining room was appalling and beyond a disappointment. Fire the chef. We are seasoned platinum level travelers with Princess and the quality of food was just awful. Princess / Carnival is a billion dollar company and the food and service should be 5 star. The food quality was atrocious and the selections were less than a low end cafeteria. Shameful. Cruisers / Families take cruises versus hotels and other travel ventures for the 5 star service / food and entertainment.

The waiters’ lack of attention with non-existent table service made it worse.
We had to ask more than once for water refills. Why would we even have to ask?
We had to ask for butter for the bread. Really! Asking for butter for the bread?
We asked for hot tea and never received. Shame.

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We asked for Chocolate chip cookies for dessert and the waiter said no. HE SAID NO. The chocolate chip cookies are in the buffet area and the chocolate chip cookies are in the Cafe on Level 5. HE SAID NO. The Waiter should have gotten the chocolate chip cookies from one of those two areas. HE SAID NO. Shame.

One person in our party is lactose intolerant and it was prearranged during our booking. On the first night, the head waiter told her that he would give her a menu each night for the following day so they can review together. WELL THAT NEVER HAPPENED. She was unattended and on her own for guess work. CHECK OUR PREBOOKING. AND E-MAILS. IT WAS NOT A SURPRISE. Definitely NOT the excellent guest experience. Princess did not care about dietary needs. Princess needs to re-address their quality control and retrain staff.

We chose to leave our formal assigned seating and eat at the anytime dining. The service there was just mediocre fair. Shame. Training. Invest in your employees and train them.

THE HORIZON COURT BUFFET
The Lido Deck on the first day was good, looked very nice, clean and very good service. The days following it was like a light switch went to the OFF position and we are like the crew on a Cargo Ship. Felt like Bait and Switch the following days. Poor service, low quality choice of foods, oily, very slopping presentation. The service in the Buffet area was very poor.

THE BURGER AND HOT DOG GRILL
The attitude from the female cook at the hamburger grill at the pool area was rude all week. Not shy, not a language barrier, just in spirit and mean. She was not friendly, no smiles, no hospitality and she gave off a poor attitude and caused us to feel that we were just a bother. Order and move on. NEXT. That is how she made us feel. She needs customer front-line service training with a SMILE.
The hamburgers were very plain. The Veggie Burgers normally excellent were sloppy and disgusting. Did you change food vendors?

INFIRMARY
My mother got very sick on the cruise. She was taken to the Infirmary. They ran tests, drew blood, administered an IV and administered pain medications. The Doctor noted gall bladder issue and was referred to a medical center for emergency surgery.

LOST ITEMS
I made a report at Pursers Desk for lost items and filled out a Lost and Found Report but have had no response. Additionally, my wife walked away from the treadmill for a moment, came back and her black Sol Republic Ear Buds were gone.

SUMMARY
There was not much about this sail that we enjoyed. The extreme lack of service, the poor quality food and the disappointment is all that remains. We are very embarrassed that we brought other family members with us. I refunded some of my family members out of embarrassment as they thought we pulled a bad tasteless prank on them and put them on an extremist sex club cruise.

We are not the only cruises complaining. During the cruise, we heard many negative comments about this sail.

REQUESTING
We are requesting full refund and future cruise for myself and our family. This was all paid by me for our family.

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Princess Cruise Lines cancelling a person who could not sail

We have a booking for a sailing on January 23, 2014. We booked a suite for my husband and our daughter ( mid twenties). This was a Christmas present for her to join us on a short cruise. Yesterday, she was in an accident and hurt her neck and she will be unable to sail next week. We did not buy vacation protection. I called to cancel her from the cruise. I was not calling to ask for a refund, just to notify them that she would not be sailing with us.
I was told that we have to pay $299 to cancel her. It is amazing to me that we paid to add her to our reservation and now we have to pay to remove her from the reservation. That just does not seem to be a reasonable policy. Regardless of whether we cancel her today or she is a "no show" next week., we will be required to pay the $299. We additionally paid taxes and fees but we will get those back at some point. I have submitted a complaint to the Princes customer relations to see if they would reconsider or perhaps gives us a ship credit toward a future cruise but I have not heard back at this point.
We have been loyal Princess cruisers but we may need to take our business elsewhere.

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We had a cruise booked on Dec 22. Got to embarkation and realized that my passport was missing. I was denied boarding. Took 6 hours to get our luggage back as the ship was pulling out. We were told I could not get on so we told them that my husband and disabled daughter would not be going either. We tried calling Principals 22 times over the next 4 days and was only able to officially cancel on the 26th. We put in a claim on that day. It has been 4 weeks and nothing from AON or Princess even after multiple attempts to call them and email them. Very unhappy right now with both of their costumer service. We would like to take another cruise but are waiting to see if we get a FCC.

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Princess Cruise Lines The company denied boarding without refund

On March 5th 2013, I booked a 7-day cruise trip to Alaska from May 12 to May 19 2013 (departure at Pier 91, Seattle WA) for three passengers, my girlfriend, her mom, and I.
After booking the cruise trip, we received the booking confirmation and travel information via email saying that “Non-US or Canadian citizens may require the temporary visa.” (My girlfriend and her mom are not US or Canadian citizens.) Since this is the first cruise trip we had, we didn’t know how to properly prepare for the trip. So on March 7, 2013, we called the Princess customer service line: [protected] regarding to questions about preparation for the trip, especially the visa requirement. During the call, a male employee of Princess cruise asked questions about our visa and passport status. He checked our itinerary and firmly told us that, “according to your itinerary, you don’t need a visa, since the only stop in Canada is at Victoria port. As long as you stay on the boat, you should be fine.”
We believed that the Princess Cruise employee (They are called “cruise consultant”.) has been properly trained and would provide customers with accurate information. Therefore, we didn’t worry about the visa anymore and further booked flights from Los Angeles to Seattle for all three passengers.
While doing the cruise online registration, there was information regarding to the visa requirement, saying that a Canadian Temporary resident Visa must be obtained regardless of whether you choose to remain on board or on shore. We were confused because it’s contradictory to what we have been advised by the cruise consultant on Mar 7th, 2013. Therefore on April 7, 2013 morning, we called Princess Customer Service line at [protected] again to confirm our visa requirement. The phone call was made at 9:07AM, lasting for 4 minutes. A female employee informed us that as long as we confirmed with their agent that we don’t need a visa, we will be fine. After making the call, we felt safe in our mind that we should be fine according to the cruise employee’s advice.
We flew from Los Angeles to Seattle and stayed there for a night and Unfortunately on May12 2013 2:00 PM, we went to Seattle Pier 91 to board on the Golden Princess cruise. It is mother’s day and However, we were denied boarding due to the reason that we didn’t have proper documentation. We have been told by Princess Cruise check-in employee that Temporary Canadian Visa is required, which is completely contradictory to what we have been advised by the cruise consultant on the phone before.
We spent $2, 022 on the cruise trip along, as well as round-trip travel expense, totaling around $3, 638. However, we didn’t get any service, but we were frustrated and upset.
Since the whole problem started with the incorrect advice from Princess Cruise’s improperly trained employee, we requested Princess to reschedule a same trip for us without additional cost and reimburse our travel expense incurred from Los Angeles to Seattle including flight fares and taxi expenses.
We tried to contact with cruise customer relation on the phone. They transferred us from one person to another. In two hours, we talked to 6 different people but no one offered to resolve our issue. . Instead of investigating or retrieving the call record, they insisted no refund and no reschedule, and told us to pay another $ 2, 000 to rebook a trip.
On the morning of 05/14/13, we called Ms. Lisa Brack, Manager of Customer Relation at [protected] and discussed the issue. However, Ms. Lisa Brack never admitted that the customers were given wrong information from the Princess employee and never bother to verify the phone records. She attempted to avoid questions from the customers. Adding insult to injury, Ms. Lisa Brack hanged up on us. Such behavior is unacceptable and unforgivable to any customers.
Because o f Princess employee’s misconduct, we suffered significant monetary losses and emotional damage. What we are asking for is reasonable. However Princess Customer Relations denied the employee’ misconduct and their responsibility to customer. We are so exhausted fighting with Princess. Therefore, we are filing a complaint to pursue the justice and fairness as we are dealing with this unethical and unreliable big corporation.

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Princess Cruise Lines failure to refund

We took a cruise with Princess Cruises scheduled from 27-31 Oct 2012. Although Hurricane Sandy was already predicted, we still sailed. We did get travel insurance. Instead of going to Bermuda, we ended up in Boston, MA. I had a military onboard credit, but had to chase Princess repeatedly to get it. We were kept on the ship 2 extra days to get back to NY, Princess added 2 extra days of tip to our bill even though Princess was the reason we stayed (they could have paid these tipdays). Lotus Spa offered a $35 weight loss solution, instead it was like a time share come on to sell us $1K of algae and herbs. At the end of this Princess refused to refund 1 penny of our fare. Beware cruise companies!

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Princess Cruise Lines delay / lack of assistance / lack of concern for compensation / double charge for flight home

Our Princess travel cruise tour experience

June 2012 – I booked our dream Alaskan cruise / land tour, travel fight reservations and excursions all through Princess Cruises. We wanted everything to be simple and to be taken care of by and through Princess. Princess told me things would be easier, smoother and less hassle if we booked everything through them, so I did. Princess also suggested that I purchase travel insurance in case of some unforeseen event that could alter our vacation travel plans. I was informed that we would be covered for events such as air delays, major illness, family emergency; etc…At no time was it explained or was I offered a higher level of travel insurance coverage. I was under the impression that I had full travel insurance coverage. Princess informed me that the Travel insurance would take care of everything.

August 2012 – After reading the fine print regarding the arrival time into Vancouver needing to be by 2:00 pm and seeing that our flight arrived at 1:59pm, I called Princess and expressed concern with the tight time frame. Princess assured me not to worry and that I have travel insurance if something were to happen, and that they would take care of everything.

It is my personnel opinion even though I am not a professional travel advisor that Princess should have suggested to arrive one day before departure in case of flight delays or luggage issues.

Sept 1, 2012 - Arrived at Fresno airport at 6:30am for 9:27am departure. By 10:00am United announced that the flight was delayed. Even thought the departure information on the board at FAT still stated flight on time. It was evident that we would not make our connecting flight to Vancouver and not make Vancouver by 2:00pm. I immediately called Princess, they stated to continue to try and get there by 3:30pm. This would still give us time to board the ship. I discussed with Princess about canceling the trip and wanting to reschedule for another week. We did not want to start a vacation that we had saved and dreamed of taking for decades off this way. At this point they told us that our insurance only covers 75% of the Cruise fare only. I was shocked and in tears. Princess stated they will not cancel the trip because that would leave an empty room on the ship. They stated they cannot sail with an empty room and lose money. Additionally, Princess stated that ‘the system’ was not showing that our flight was delayed so they would not cancel. A United supervisor at Fresno actually talked to the Princess representative on the phone and assured her the flight was delayed through ATC and weather delays in San Francisco. There was a lot of confusion with our air booking stating the airline as Air Canada but operated by United. After many frustrating and confusing conversations regarding our situation, and whether to continue to travel on or not, we had little choice other that to continue to San Francisco hoping our connecting flight was also delayed and we could still make it to Vancouver by 3:30 as Princess had informed me. So at the last minute we boarded the flight with one checked bag and 2 carry on bags. In the cabin of the airplane with our 2 carry on bags the flight attendant stated that all overhead compartments were full and took our 2 carry on bags off the airplane to be loaded under the plane.

Upon arrival into San Francisco we waited by the plane to collect our 2 carry on bags. The bags were not there. No one had any idea where our carry on bags with all our medications were. These medications included; insulin and other diabetic medications, high blood pressure medication, anti-depressants, and medications for migraines. We entered into the madness of San Francisco Air Terminal and standing in massive lines waited to determine if we could still make our connecting flight and wondering where our carry on bags were. By this time we have missed our connecting flight and also do not know where our checked bag is. We really can not continue this trip if we have no checked or carry on bags that contain all our daily medications. I made numerous phone calls to Princess and Oncall International during this time. Every time I called I received different information. By this time it is clear that we will not be able to meet the ship in Vancouver. In tears and pleading with many United representatives the plan changes to try and catch up with the ship in Ketchikan if we can find our carry on and checked bags. It just kept going from bad to worse. This is not how we envisioned our trip. We were on the phone with Princess asking for assistance and direction. Again we were told to try to find a way to get from San Francisco to Ketchikan and hope that someone could find our bags. This was no easy task. United personal did not wish to assist us to find new flights or to located our checked bag and our 2 missing carry on bags. Many Untied personal actually told us, ‘it’s not my job’. I again turned to Princess for assistance, only to receive no assistance other than try to get to Ketchikan. I really do not know how to put into words the nightmare and sequence of events that occurred with our stay in the San Francisco Air Terminal and our conversations with Princess. All Princess did was to keep assuring us that everything would be taken care of.

After hours of lines, waiting, frustrating personnel and so much miss information we finally had a plan to fly from San Francisco to Seattle and then Seattle to Ketchikan. We still have no luggage, which also means no medications. Believe me by now we are in need of these medications. I am trying to see if there is a pharmacy in Ketchikan and see if I can get on call doctors (because it is Saturday and a holiday weekend) to send prescriptions. I am also trying to see what medicines I have extra at home and see if someone can go to my home and possibly overnight to Ketchikan. What a mess. Not relaxing at all.

They are trying to find our checked bag and see if it is on its way to Vancouver. If the luggage continued to Vancouver on the delayed flight it will miss the ship. We are also are still trying to figure out how our carry on bags disappeared. If they were not left in Fresno and did not come with us to San Francisco where could they be? When we left Fresno on the delayed flight to San Francisco two flights walked out the same gate. One flight walked to the left to San Francisco and one flight to the right to Vegas. Our thought was once the flight attendant removed our bags from the cabin of the airplane and placed our carry on bags outside the airplane, someone had to of picked up our bags and walked them over to the Vegas flight and placed the bags on the Vegas flight. Sounds crazy, but after many, many hours in San Francisco we finally convinced someone to check Vegas. To shorten the drama, they did locate the bags in Vegas. Now they just need to work on getting the bags to us. Remember these carry on bags have all our daily medications which I am in desperate need of by this time, not to mention the obvious, clothes. Princess told us that the insurance covers us to purchase $ 500.00 of clothing. I suppose it is something, but how do you shop for clothing on board and in tourist ports. Not many places to purchase underware, bathing suits or cocktail dress in Alaska ports. In addition my husband wears big and tall. There would be absolutely no place to purchase clothing to fit him. I wear petite which is not as hard to find, I guess I could have purchased women’s size small, tried to wash and shrink them to fit. Let’s face it, we need our luggage or we have to go home.

Princess informed us that we would be responsible for our lodging in Seattle and they would take care of us upon arrival in Ketchikan and arrange lodging and then get us to the ship. They did let us know to keep our receipts and we could be reimbursed up to $500.00. I asked the question $500.00 per person, per day, per what? No one could answer that question.

Lodging in Seattle was no easy task. This happened to be Labor Day weekend and we were told that the largest convention ever in Seattle was also taking place. There was one lady in baggage claim that was on the phone for literally 3 ½ hours trying to locate us a hotel room while we were waiting to locate our luggage. Finally the news came in that our luggage should arrive at midnight. What a long frustrating day. There were absolutely no rooms in Seattle no matter what the cost. Finally she located us a hotel with one room left in Tacoma, which is 60 miles to the south. After paying a rather large cab fare, we checked into the last room.

September 2, 2012 - Of course we had to now pay another transport fare back to Seattle airport to catch the flight to Ketchikan not to mention pay another checked bag fee. Princess told us they would meet us at the airport in Ketchikan and take us to the hotel they use, Cape Fox. We arrived in Ketchikan and are waiting for Princess, called Princess, and wait longer for Princess to pick us up. No Princess to pick us up. Finally we paid the fee to take the ferry across and found transportation to Cape Fox Lodge. Princess did not take care of our transportation or lodging accommodations. We had to do everything on our own. Called Princess again and informed them that we were at the Cape Fox Lodge. They stated that they would pick us up in the morning and transport us to the ship.

September 3, 2012 - What a surprise when they did not show up and we again had to make our own transportation arrangements to the ship and pay for all expenses on our own still not knowing what $500.00 coverage actually means. At this point the fees we have occurred to catch up to the ship far exceed $500.00.

Because of Princess not picking us up we now are left with a very tight schedule to make our scheduled excursion in Ketchikan, which we were told could not be canceled. Not very relaxing. So, on day 3 of what was supposed to be a relaxing, enjoyable time of our life we finally boarded the ship, totally exhausted and frustrated. We missed the first formal night, have 5 messages on our phone that we did not show for our schedule Lotus Spa treatments. I had specifically asked Princess on day one of this nightmare to please let the Lotus spa be aware of our situation and cancel our Spa appointments for September 2, 2012. According to the Lotus Spa, Princess never let them know. If we ever needed a relaxing spa treatment, now would be the time.

We tried very hard to put the past terrible days behind us and move forward. After all we have saved up for this trip for a long time. This was to celebrate my 50th birthday and our 32nd wedding anniversary. We wanted to make this an experience to remember. We had just hoped for different memories than we got.

Prior to our trip I called and ordered the upgraded unlimited soda / mocktail beverage package per person, per day. I clarified that we wanted to order alcohol in our room and use the beverage package to order room service for the sodas and mocktails. We wished to stay in our room and mix our own drinks. I was told that if I purchased this drink package we could do this. Well upon finally boarding the ship on day 3 we wanted to order the mocktails, have a drink and try to unwind and relax. I called room service and was told that I can not order this. I had to go up to a bar and get the mocktails. This is not what I was originally told or what we wanted to do. We wanted to be able to stay in the room and not have to go up to a bar. Just more frustrating mis information from Princess. Also, no one has ever mentioned being credited for the days that we were not on ship since this package was a per person, per day charge. Because of the inconvenience of having to leave the room to get the mixer we only used this service twice.

September 4 – 6, 2012 - In an effort to move forward and put the all past frustrations, miss-communications and contradictory information from Princess behind us we contacted the ship regarding receiving compensation. We were told that someone would call us in our room. No one called us, no personnel contact from anyone. The next day we finally received a letter stating that we would be issued a minor credit for the days missed on ship. They took the total cost of the cruise per person and divided by 12 days. The total trip was 12 days, 7 on ship which includes all meals and 5 on land that does not include any meals. It should be pretty obvious that the days on ship that include all the meals are worth more. We needed to discuss this with a person and explain are concern. I called again and asked if we could discuss the minimal credit issued with someone and explain all the problems that we had experienced with Princess. We were told that someone would be in touch. Someone did finally call and left us a message on the phone but neglected to leave us a phone number to call her back. So it appears that no one wishes to hear or address our concerns. We walk to a customer service desk and finally are put in touch with a person we think can assist us. Unfortunately she states there is nothing she can or anyone else on the ship can do. She stated that we need to speak to the corporate office. I asked to call and talk to them and she continues to explain that we have to wait until after the cruise. So much for trying to deal with all the horrific past and move forward. This issue is still un-resolved and will follow us though out our trip and back home. We were extremely disappointed that no one would or could assist us. We left the desk feeling very insignificant, unimportant and far from the ‘relax and rejuvenating’ motto of Princess. It was very obvious that no one really wished to assist us. On board the crew always had a smile on their face and always greeted us pleasantly, but that was all we got, all lip service, no actual caring, concern or action. It all seemed so phony.

We did try to relax at the Lotus Spa. Unfortunately the thermal steams rooms were not working. We tried some treatments to assist with relaxation; I myself tried a couple of massages to help relax. The therapist said that I have so many stress knots and tightness in my shoulders and neck, there was little she could do.

Seriously, by now we are anything but relaxed. All the stress and frustration from Princess not following through with any thing they told us on the phone is now wearing us out. We are so worn out our immune system is also worn out and we are now sick. Sniffling, coughing, chest congestion, and sore throats, we still try to more forward and try to enjoy the remainder of the trip. The weather and the excursions were good; of course these are things that Princess does not control. Some of our dining was good; other times we ordered items that never came to the table. We are so worn out it is not even worth mentioning. At this point we do not expect anything from Princess.

Sept 10, 2012 Upon arrival in Denali we check into the lodge and find that we are assigned a room with two double beds. This does not work for us. My husband is 6’4” and needs a larger bed to be able to sleep diagonally to have feet room. This was requested pre-cruise. They did manage to find us another room in the older part of the lodge. So we hauled our luggage from building 11 to building 4, not a short distance, especially being worn out and sick
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While in Denali our brand new video HD camcorder (purchased specifically for this trip) has now been stole. All of the video and pictures that we had taken so far are forever gone. I reported this to the Registration desk and asked to file a police report, but all I got was a lodge lost and found paper to complete. Seriously what else can go wrong?

Sept 13, 2012 - We are so looking forward to the end of our trip. We want this nightmare over and to go home, knowing that we have a lot of catch up and hard work ahead of us from being gone for two weeks. We arrive at the Fairbanks airport at 5:30am for the 8:00am departure to Anchorage. We are informed by Alaskan Air that they can see that we have tickets, but no money has been transferred to pay for the tickets. We cannot get home. The Alaskan Airlines representative explains that someone must have made a mistake somewhere and someone has not paid for the airline tickets. I have all the confirmation numbers and paid airfare documentation with me. This information does not seem to help. She begins a 2 hour conversation which includes hold time and transfer time between Air Canada and United and back to Air Canada and back to United and back to Air Canada….you get the picture. She stated she does not get worked up or mad, but this was too much. She could not get any assistance from anyone. While she was on the phone I myself contacted Princess and explained the situation. I was told that Princess can not help me with this and I need to work with the airlines, she then proceeded to hang up. So with 20 minutes before our flight departs and still needing to pass through TSA we have two options, stay in Fairbanks another night or however long it takes for someone to straighten things out, or pay for the flight home out of pocket. We need to get home, so we paid the $565.30 per person for the exact same flights home that we had already booked and paid for through Princess in June. We just can not believe it.

So we are finally on our journey home. Frustrated, disappointed, sick, lets be honest mad as hell having incurred almost $ 3000.00 out of pocket expenses to cover all this mess, with no guarantee of return compensation for the out of pocket expenses or credits for the delays and lack of Princess assistance. We can not wait to get home. On our first layover in anchorage I again contacted Princess. I spoke with Juliette. She entered a Post Cruise incident for us regarding the return travel issue only. Juliette was helpful and assured us that we would be compensated for the $ 565.30 per person flight home charges.

September 14, 2012 - We are finally home and trying to recover. I called Princess again. Spoke to a Becky Hooser. I briefly told her our story, as if this story could be told briefly. The representive stated that she has heard all these issues before, just never to the same person on the same trip. She informed us to write everything up and to file additional Post Cruise incidents. There will be three separate incidents:

Incident 1 – Initial flight delays pre cruise and lack of Princess assistance
Incident 2 – Lost / Delay in Luggage
Incident 3 – Return flight charges
Additional Concern – Lack of adequate compensation from Princess for days missed

Please keep in mind that for us to even have any chance of receiving reimbursements or compensation for all this mess is totally up to us. I currently have receipts and paperwork laid out across the floor. It will take a great deal of time to sort through all this and to document all the stuff that has happened. I will be filing claims that require a lot of information and can only assume this will take months to straighten out. This nightmare is not over. The time to sort out, explain, make copies, prepare and file claims will take much more time than the cruise tour of 12 days. We both work very hard and have jobs that demand our time over and above the normal 8 to 5 jobs. I am sure that all this mess will require time away from our jobs.

Princess keep telling us it will be ok, they will take care of things. Well it was not, and they did not take care of things. We are extremely disappointed and based on our experience, would never recommend Princess to anyone. All we can do now is to take the time and do all the paper work and wait to see if we do indeed get any compensation. Even though the weather was good and the scenery was beautiful, we truly regret ever taking this trip. The stress of this all far exceeds any minimal beauty we saw. We could have stayed home, watched Alaskan documentaries and seen good weather and beautiful scenery with no stress.
Days Missed Refund

Princess sent us a letter day 5 of our passage stating that we would receive $274.82 per person for the days missed on board.

Total cost of $1649.00 per person for 12 days; 7 days on ship meals included and 5 days on land, meals NOT included.

Average cost per day for food based on Princess menu prices in McKinley, Denali, and Fairbanks.

Breakfast $12.00 plus $3.00 beverage = $15.00 plus 20% tip of 3.00 = $18.00
Lunch $15.00 plus $3.00 beverage = $18.00 plus 20% tip of 3.60 = $21.60
Dinner $22.00 plus $3.00 beverage = $25.00 plus 20% tip of 5.00 = $30.00
Meal cost per person per day $69.90

Remove cost of 7 days meals from total to get cost of lodging alone

7 days meals per person = $489.30

$1649.00 cost of total cruise per person
$ 489.30 minus 7 days meals
$1159.70 is cost of lodging alone for 12 days

$ 96.64 is cost of lodging alone per day

$ 96.64 cost of lodging per day per person
$ 69.90 cost of meals per day per person
$ 166.54 is cost of meals and lodging per day per person

$ 166.54 times 2 days missed = $ 333.08 for passenger 1
$ 166.54 times 2 days missed = $ 333.08 for passenger 2

$ 666.16 = the cost of meals and lodging for 2 days for 2 passengers. This is the base amount that should be credited to our account.

Additional amounts to be credited would be our Unlimited Soda & More Package which is
$ 8.05 per person per day. $ 32.20 for two people for two days missed.

I would like Princess to consider refunding the total package of $ 119.00 being that we purchased this package based on the information we received on the phone which was that we could order these beverages (sodas / mocktails) as room service to our room. We wished to mix our own drinks in our room. Upon arrival on board we were told that we could not do this. So we received incorrect information by which we purchased this package. We did not wish to leave our room and go to the bar to receive our drinks. I believe that we only used this service twice.

Inconvenience, Pain and Suffering, Extreme Disappointment, Frustration, Anger
These would be some of ways that we would describe our experience with Princess. We do realize that Princess cannot control flight delays, but they certainly should have experience and expertise in assisting passengers with advice, information and smooth transitions to join the ship. Unfortunately we did not experience any assistance from Princess.

Suggestions of ways that Princess can improve
1. Upon booking our flights reservations, with all Princesses travel experience they should of suggested arriving a day early instead of booking us to arrive one minute before the 2:00 pm. arrival deadline.
2. Upon selling us the travel insurance, they should have explained that there are two different plans and explained the coverage.
3. Upon first contact to Princess and notification of flight delay, should have assisted us with alternate travel options.
4. Upon continued contact to Princess and notifications of delays and lost luggage, should have assisted us with airline flights and hotel lodging until we boarded the ship on day 3.
5. Princess did state that they would take care of all arrangements in Ketchikan and would pick us up at the airport. Princess never showed or took care of any lodging arrangements. They did not even show up to take us to the ship. Princess should at least follow through with the things they stated that they would take care of.
6. Princess should have contacted us in person and discussed compensation for the time missed on the ship. Instead we were told that we have to wait until after the trip to discuss compensation.

I can only hope that we had an isolated experience and that Princess does not usually leave there passengers fending for themselves. I hope that Princess can adjust procedures and learn to assist passengers better after hearing our bad experience. I hope that Princess will consider all our troubles and offer a fair compensation for our experiences. If you have any questions or would like further information, please contact us at xxx-xxx-xxxx.

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Princess Cruise Lines don't give them your money, it's scam

I've applied for vacancy at this cruise line and was accepted, before I could start working I had to do some paperwork which included paying around $500 in order to speed things up. Salary was way more that I've ever hoped for so I sent that money via Western Union but ever since somebody collected that cash I haven't heard of this company again... It was scam.

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Sep 15, 2019 6:15 pm EDT

Sir/ ma'am,

I am rijosh h.m. from India.

I got cruise recruitment info through Social Media.

From there i texted the person who represent for princess cruise - mr. James Marshall # +[protected]  offering H1B class visa.

For registration $500 need to pay for visa and all in a reputed firm is impossible to belive. Also how could they select and confirm my job within hours.
Why should i pay to someone's personal bank account, in a firm like princess cruises

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