So the Amorusos have been elite many times over. The Elite card goes to passengers who been on 15 Princess cruises or cruised for a total of 150 days. Loyalty members also get a pin in the same color as their cruise card. Each card offers benefits which, of course, become more valuable as the colors change. Then comes a ruby card, platinum card and – the most valuable of all – a dark colored elite card. Next time, I will move up to a gold card. Plus, I will no longer be a “blue” card-holding member. She handed me an official-looking Captain’s Circle Passport, wrote my name and membership number in it and added a colorful little Caribbean beach scene stamp with the signature of ship captain Edward Perrin and the Regal Princess name as the ship.įrom now on, each time I embark with Princess Cruises, I will get my passport stamped noting the cruise destination, the ship and the captain. In fact, Liudmyla told me, I am now a member myself. Time to learn more about this loyalty program.Įarly the next morning, I headed to the desk of Liudmyla Khorolets, hostess of Princess Cruises Captain’s Circle, the loyalty program for repeat guests. Then my dining companions began discussing those wonderful perks and I noticed the Princess cruise cards they carried were a different color than mine. Only makes sense, all three couples say, because flying is such an expensive hassle that a cruiser might as well look for discounts and book two back-to-back cruises. The Kansas couple and the New York couple at my table are both doing the first part of their two-weekers. Ken and Nance from Somerset, Massachusetts, had just finished a week on the Regal Princess and are now beginning the second leg of their two-week cruise. In fact, all three couples are taking back-to-back cruises on the Regal Princess. The six other people at my table were all repeat cruisers. I’ll probably do a bit of both on this cruise but I opted the first night to meet other passengers. As a solo cruiser, I have my choice of requesting a smaller table all to myself or dining with other couples at a larger table. “We have tried other cruise lines but we always come back to Princess.”Īt dinner my first night on the Regal Princess, I was seated with three other couples at a “shared” table. “Those cruise credits that you get never expire,” Robert says. The Palm City, Florida, couple emphasize that the appreciation which Princess Cruises shows repeat cruisers and the perks that the cruise line offers loyal guests are major reasons to return. What keeps bringing them back? “The ships and the friendly crew,” Robert says. “Our first Princess cruise was in September of 2005.
“We did that over a span of 11 years,” Robert hastens to say. That is more than three and a half years of being pampered on a Princess ship. They have cruised an amazing 1,336 days with Princess Cruises. Now I know why Robert and Sharon Amoruso always seem to look so happy.
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