I must have had 30 emails from them this week. We got 6 different offers in the mail from them today...

I'm jealous; I only got 3 mailings and 0 e-mails. Maybe they assume I'm a sure thing. I wonder of Sonny gets a lot of mail from RCI.

I get a mini-brochure from Princess every few months, and I have never sailed on Princess. They must have got my address from Carnival. I don't get many emails from Carnival. They only send the Currents Magazine in the mail. This does seem odd to get that many from Princess.

Dwayne

Maybe they think Gary is on the fence; they are trying to pull him over.

We have only been with Princess one time. It was 2 summers ago, to Alaska. We usually get a few emails, and a couple of mailers a year. Over the last couple of months I have got hundres of emails, and at least one mailer a week.
Do sure why I am on there list, I just wish I could afford another cruise right now.

Well I have never cruise with princess but I receive the emails also I think I once you travel with carnival they also send you new offers but I like to know the offers they have sometimes they look really interesting

Gary, I know what you mean. I haven't paid my final payment yet that is due on August 4th. I purposely waited though to some degree, in case a better rate came up. Nope, they all went up this time, including the fuel supplements. Luckily, I am locked in with the original $5.

Dwayne

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Well I have never cruise with princess but I receive the emails also I think I once you travel with carnival they also send you new offers but I like to know the offers they have sometimes they look really interesting

Cas, I think they do too. You were asking about past guest specials a while back. I didn't know if you knew this or not, as past guests with Carnival we are eligible for Princess's past guest rates when they have them.

Dwayne

Our next cruise is Oct. Normally we would have did one in June or July. My Step son is in the Navy, going to Corpsman School in Norfolk. We are going to visit him next week for about 3 weeks. (You know hit virgina and the area while it is cool!!). Main thing is we have the time now and really want to see the Grandkids.
BTw I go another Email from Princess.

Gary, are they all different emails, or the same ones? Was just curious if they may have a malfunction in their system.

BTW, I don't consider Virginia cool in August. It could be though to you considering where you are coming from.

Dwayne

Neil, they are all a little different, a 7 day Mexico Riviera, a 10 day Mexico, A Mediterranean, An Alaskan. It sounds like they really do not care where I go..just go.

The temperature will be about the same in Virginia, but it will be about 70% more humid. That will be the killer. The Grandkids are worth it. Plus my Cousin's Son works for the NSA. He has promised to show us around the DC area. We wanted to do a cruise while we were back there, it just did not work out.

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Neil, they are all a little different, a 7 day Mexico Riviera, a 10 day Mexico, A Mediterranean, An Alaskan.

I am not Neil. The trip sounds great though. I haven't been to DC for over 20 years. The monuments are a must see. The humidity will be a big change for you. If you visited SC that time of year it would be much worse.

Dwayne

I think its just a matter of mailing lists. And its sure not related to Princess. We cruise a lot (about 70 days a year) and have been on more than 10 cruise lines. Most days, about 3/4 of our mail is cruise related (cruise lines, travel agents, etc) and we probably average 15 e-mails per day that are cruise related. Last year we met a top marketing executive for CCL (Carnival Corp) who told us that they really loved e-mail because the cost was very cheap. He also mentioned that they were studying several issues such as how many e-mails can you send to somebody before it begins to have a negative effect. One problem we have noticed is that the cruise lines are now sending designed packaged e-mails to travel agents for the purpose of having TAs add their own logos and forward to their customers. On some days we will get the same e-mail from 5 or 6 different TAs...particularly when a cruise line is doing a major promotion.

Hank

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Neil, they are all a little different, a 7 day Mexico Riviera, a 10 day Mexico, A Mediterranean, An Alaskan.

I am not Neil. The trip sounds great though. I haven't been to DC for over 20 years. The monuments are a must see. The humidity will be a big change for you. If you visited SC that time of year it would be much worse.

Dwayne

Sorry about that Dwayne...was doing 4 things at once and no paying enough attention to any of them.

You can always unsubscribe to any company's emails if they get to be too much for you.

Come to DC! Yes it's hot and humid but so is much of the country. Summer in DC seemed cold in comparison to a late September weekend I spent in Miami a couple of years ago.

I worked in an office that was getting literally about 30 faxes a day from Princess, until we unsubscribed. At least email is easy to delete and doesn't use up paper.

Sandy

Thanks Sandy. I really do not want to unscribe. I almost bit on one of the offers, a 7 day Mexico for $449. It caught our eye, but we do have to work no and then. Plus we are headed out on the Pride in Oct.
We are prepared for the weather (if you can be). we will be back in the Norfolk/DC area in February, shouldn't be too hot then!!! We really know how to pick the good times don't we
My Step-son will finish his training and we want to attend the Graduation at that time, thus the reason for a Febraury trip.

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Originally posted by IslandCruz:
Cas, I think they do too. You were asking about past guest specials a while back. I didn't know if you knew this or not, as past guests with Carnival we are eligible for Princess's past guest rates when they have them.

Dwayne

Well that's new to me thanks for the info


I am really interested on traveling on Princess Cruises my only problem is the time.
Here on Puerto Rico they have cruise options only during spring or after the summer and because of my line of work I can only cruise during the summer.
For some reason I don't know Princess does not have cruises departing from Puerto Rico during the summer but anyway maybe on the future...

Mr. Frankenstein (or may I call you Casanova) there was a bit of a discussion of this in the Princess forum, in the thread "Cruises from Florida (?)"; it seems that Princess and Holland America move most of their fleet to Europe and Alaska for the Summer; Princess has nothing in the Caribbean except a r/t out of New York; and nothing out of California except a r/t out of San Francisco to Alaska.

As you say, maybe in the future.

Rick

mr.Frankenstein is my Father
Casanova is ok

jejeje

as for Princess well I don't know why maybe is because RCCL and Carnival are mostly on the caribean during summer

Thank you for accepting my humor, and yes, as TrvlPro pointed out, Princess and HAL probably do much better in Alaska.