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Category Archives: Princess
Cruising Ducks
Hiding and finding ducks has become a popular pastime on cruise ships. It all started when a 10-year-old girl named Abby brought 50 ducks to hide on a Carnival cruise in 2018. Jeep ducking started in 2020 in Canada. That … Continue reading
Posted in Enchanted Princess, Noordam, Randoms, Shipboard Life
Tagged cruise, cruising ducks, ducks on cruise ships, photos, travel
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Enchanted Princess
When sailing on a medallion class ship like Enchanted Princess, you have an option of either having your medallion sent to you pre-cruise, in which you pay a fee for the postage, or you can pick it up at the … Continue reading
Posted in Enchanted Princess, Princess
Tagged cruise, cruise ship, Enchanted Princess, photos, Princess cruise, travel
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Royal Princess Hits and Misses
Hits and Misses on the Royal Princess Hits and misses are usually my opinion of what I did and didn’t like on a cruise, but this time I have some input from one of my sisters as well. As usual … Continue reading
Killing Time in Vancouver
My sisters and I disembarked the Royal Princess in Vancouver in the morning, with hours to kill before our evening train. During normal times Amtrak runs two trains daily on the Amtrack Cascades route from Eugene, Oregon to Vancouver BC, … Continue reading
Posted in Canada, Port Cities, Princess, Royal Princess
Tagged #vancouverbc, Canada, Canada Place, cruise, photos, train, travel, Vancouver BC
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Vancouver Cruise Ship Port
Vancouver Vancouver, Canada is referred to as Vancouver B.C. (for British Columbia), at least by Washingtonians because Washington State in the USA also has a city named Vancouver. North of Washington and west of the Canadian mainland there is also … Continue reading
Cruising the West Coast
Boarding the Royal Princess in Los Angeles, California was a much easier process than their pre-cruise emails made it sound. After having been told just a couple weeks before the cruise that we couldn’t get on the ship until 2:30pm … Continue reading
Posted in Canada, Ports of Call, Princess, Royal Princess, Shipboard Life, USA
Tagged #pacificcoastalcruise, cruise, Pacific Coastal Cruise, photos, Princess, Royal Princess, travel, west coast
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Things to do on the Royal Princess
On the Royal Princess, the ship itself has a variety of things to do without going to organized functions, but of course the daily newsletter called Princess Patter offers up plenty of those as well. The daily schedule included things like … Continue reading
Seattle Center
The highlight of the Seattle Center is the symbol of Seattle itself, the Space Needle, built for the 1962 world fair, as was the Seattle Center itself. Back then it was the tallest building in Seattle, but now it’s not … Continue reading
Posted in Port Cities, Ports of Call, Princess, USA, Washington
Tagged #seattle #seattlecenter, monorail, MOPOP, photos, Science Center, Seattle, Seattle Center, Space Needle, travel
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Seattle Waterfront
Cruise ships in Seattle dock either at pier 66 or pier 91. Most start and or end cruises there, but sometimes Seattle is just a port stop. Pier 91 is nearest the cruise parking for cruises beginning and ending there, … Continue reading
Enclave at the Spa on Royal Princess
On most cruise ships the spa and gym go hand in hand being located next to each other and sharing a locker room. There’s generally a beauty salon in the vicinity as well. Royal Princess breaks with that tradition having … Continue reading