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Congrats on your booking. Are you going to the Caribbean? September is a great month in the Caribbean.

Isn't it great always having a cruise booked.... that's what I'm missing at the moment. Congrats Elva!!!!

I love the internet perk - I used it quite a bit on our 17 day Panama Canal trip but didn't exceed the new limit... so my feeling is that the new limit is still very fair, especially that it is a per person limit! We use all our platinum perks.... why not?

Sure.... love the Princess deal where you only put down $100 p.p. and can take your cruise anytime within the next 3-4 years (we've never waited that long). Love the onboard credits that go with it. Love the deal!!!

Joey, we have done 8 Princess cruises and one major difference (which has been discussed here already) is the balconies on the Sun class ships. All other classes, Grand or Diamond class have wonderful balconies all glass and vary in size depending upon category or where it is situated on the ship. BUT in the Sun class all the balconies (other than the Grand Suite) are inside the superstructure - and look like they've been carved out. The problem - when you sit on your small balcony you can't see the sea, because the sides are steel. We always travel in Mini-suites on Princess, but truly on this class ship an outside cabin is just as good. Now that is our personal opinion only!!! The anytime as opposed to traditional dining. Yes they can seat just two people, you can also book traditional now and then say on your 2nd night onboard give anytime a try at the time of your preference - and compare for yourself. When we get a good waiter we just book his table for the rest of the cruise.... but go to the restaurant at a time that suits us. Anytime dining on the Sun class also never has a wait time for a table, sometimes on the bigger ships you may be given one of those "flashing/vibrating" thingees and go to the bar for a drink to wait for your table to become available... this doesn't happen on port evenings, but sometimes on days at sea.

Joey - as you know we love Princess. We haven't sailed on the Dawn, but have sailed on all her sister ships, the Sea, Sun and Ocean (which they sold). We love this size ship. It's smaller that the Millie - if that's what you're looking for. It doen't have as many bells and whistles as the larger Princess ships but you meet far more people, being a more intimate size and you never have problems with the elevators always being full when they get to your deck. We also like the availability of the laundry rooms on each deck as well as the fact that ALL their swimming pools are fresh water.. love that! On these smaller ships they don't have the same specialty dining restaurants that they have on the larger one's - Sabatini's which is awesome!! The do have Sterling Steakhouse...they have closed off a side of the buffet area and decorated it into a small intimate steakhouse - the food was superb!! The Sun and Sea also have a seperate Pizza Restaurant - not too sure about the Dawn. I feel the food is right up there with Celebrity. I know Rose said she doesn't like anytime dining - we are just the opposite. We LOVE anytime dining and have found the service to be just as good - in fact you can ask for your same waiter each evening if you wish. We love being able to eat dinner whenever we please, some days you feel like having dinner later than others, but you don't have to wait too late like most fixed late seatings. Any other questions???

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