A Guide to Princess MedallionClass for 2024: What It Will Actually Be Like!

so are you about to embark on your very first Princess Cruise and you're trying to figure out what the heck is this whole Medallion class thing about well this video is for you stay [Music] tuned hi everyone ra from Cruise Seekers and Welcome to our show today we are talking everything about Princess Medallion class we are excited to be boarding the discovery princess in a little less than three weeks and I've done a lot of research about Medallion class because the last time we were on princess it didn't have Medallion class and the one before that it was the very first sailing of a medallion class vessel with that technology and it was basically just a key card and a way to kind of get into your door automatically and purchase things on the ship it's a lot more now and we are going to talk about everything Medallion class but before we do I want to thank everybody who's become a member of this Cruise Seekers Community thank you so much for doing it we' love you folks we'd love having 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part of the medallion with a logo if you want or maybe your initials or who knows what the heck you want maybe your favorite team we're going on a cruise right dooring ing March Madness and if one of your teams is going to be a March Madness maybe throw their logo on there let them know who you're rooting for that's a pretty cool way to kind of get that personalized but yeah that's basically you know you got this little chip and it's basically going to let the cruise line know everything about you and where the heck you are on the ship that's basically the general gist of what it is think of it as an air tag for you now how does this air tag get the information about you well you put it in the app when you put your information in the app about who you are about your food allergies about your dinner reservations about where you want to kind of go to go see a show that information is now part of a database and you can use that to interact with your medallion to help you get to places you need to get to or help other people get to you where you are at such as you know you want to have a drink delivered or you want to make sure your wife knows how to get to you where you are on the ship there's also other connected devices to The Medallion class experience you're going to have giant TV screens throughout the ship that you can just kind of tap your wrist to and you can make more dining reservations or you can figure out where the heck am I on the ship and I need to get to point B and it will help you get there we're going to talk about all those other things that this Medallion class experience will allow you to do now let's talk a little bit about the app there's a little bit of a gacha here right now just recently in February of this year princess has changed their app there used to be a specific app called Princess Medallion or something along those lines that was the main app beforehand now don't use that app it's no longer in use it is what is known as deprecated you want to get the princess Cruz's app from this point forward so if you see two things with Princess Cruises when you search your app Store make sure you get the one that says princess Cru is not the one with the word Medallion in it don't download that one so now that we have the app and now we know what the heck this Medallion is and what it does let's talk a little bit about the whole experience of Medallion class and we're going to start off with ocean ready all righty so what does it mean to become ocean ready basically this means you're online checking you get to become ocean ready once you made your final payment you basically want to go through all the little tick boxes you're going to want to make sure all the little you know checks are green for you you're going to upload your photo you're going to fill in your information you're going to put in your emergency contact you're going to put in your passport information all those things there's going to be some other things too that you normally never seen before such as letting them know what your food allergies are or any accessibility needs during your cruise usually you just have to call up the cruise line to let them know about that or your travel agent so that they can let the cruise line know that is no longer needed with The Medallion class experience so it's really cool that you can put that in there right now and it's part of your profile now once you have all those little check marks done the last check mark is actually choosing what kind of Medallion you want if you want any customizations like I talked about beforehand if you want any kind of jewelry or paraphernalia to carry your medallion around you can order that as well now The Medallion will be delivered to you for free if you're on princess Plus or princess Premiere there's a service fee to have it delivered to you if you're on regular princess standard but you can definitely have it still delivered to you if you're on princess standard it costs I think somewhere around $10.99 somewhere in that range so definitely have it delivered because if you have your medallion delivered you get to go on the green line which basically gives you a very expedited you know boarding experience when you get to the cruise port if you don't do that if you don't have your medallion delivered to you for whatever reason because you didn't want to pay the 1099 or you just kind of booked the cruise last minute and they just don't have enough time to get it to you in time so you might have to go what is known as the Blue Line the Blue Line's a little bit slower that's where you're going to pick up your medallion you're going to have to go through a little bit of extra kind of protocol to get you through the whole situation and that's pretty much it you get on the ship right after that you're ocean ready you're ready to go get on that ship enjoy your princess Cru now one of the very first things that this Medallion class experience is going to help you with is your mustard drill your mustard drill is now all digital you're basically going to watch a video on your phone you're going to listen to How the horn sounds and then you're going to have to go to your mustard station now this app and your medallion is going to help you get to your mustard station it's awesome beforehand if you were first time ever on this type of ship it might have even be your first cruise you're very confused where the heck do I go where is this kuner's bar location I don't know how to get there you might have to track down a crew member and then remember directions it can get a little frustrating because you might forget your directions and you're going to have to look at a map very very annoying now you just kind of go on your app you look at the deck plans under the J Journey location and then you hit the muster station and it's going to let you know exactly where your mustard station is and give you step-by-step directions as you're going around on the ship and it will let you know because you have your little geolocation device on you pretty darn cool it's one of the first real cool things that you're going to be using your new medallion with and your whole Medallion class experience is going to be enhanced making it a little bit easier just for you unless maybe your first experience is maybe ordering a drink right to you you never know might be that we're going to talk about that soon now in our very first Medallion class experience when it was first rolled out to the royal princess it was pretty much just a cool way to open your door and a cool way to kind of pay for things now the cool way to open your door is still there and it is still pretty darn cool a lot of times when you go to port and you got a whole bunch of stuff that you just bought from the port you might have your hands you know full or if you're like me and you're the coffee delivery man your hands might be full when you get to the door and trying to Fumble around for your key card to open up your door is a pain in the neck now it's really nice when your hands are full to just walk up to your door and your door opens automatically for you just because you have your medallion around you that's just awesome it makes things just a lot easier you know coffee delivery guy really really likes The Medallion to open up that door now when you open up the door and you have the princess Premiere package that kind of puts you into a little bit of a raffle every single time that door opens that's your princess prizes that's pretty cool too who who knows just by walking by your door you might win a cruise now the next little app within an app that I want to talk about that's part of your medallion class experience is ocean Compass ocean Compass is basically going to let people know exactly where the heck you are on the ship your husband or your wife wants to know where you're at and you don't know the name of the ball you're at you could just tell them in the messaging which is Free by the way on princess you can just say just find me on the app you can just get to me and just come right here I don't know what's the name of this bar it's day one so that's a cool thing you also know where your kiddos are which is really really cool now if you don't want your wife or husband to know exactly that you are in the casino again you can hide yourself if you really really want to I don't recommend it but you can do that if it's just something that you feel that you need to do at that time so that's a cool thing you don't have to feel too creeped about it if you want to shut off your you know where your location is go ahead do it now if you have kids 18 years or younger they can't hide themselves on Ocean compass don't worry about that they don't have that ability to I love the whole concept of ocean Compass it makes things so much easier I don't have to do the hunt my wife down game on the cruise ship anymore unless she hides herself that might happen now the most popular feature for your medallion class experience is ocean now it's so popular that princess realize people really like it and they're probably willing to pay for it if they don't have princess Plus or princess Premiere because if you have princess plus and Princess Premiere it's still free but if you have princess standard you're going to want to spend money for ocean now ocean now is basically door Dash on the cruise ship you can get whatever the heck you want delivered to wherever the heck you're at it's amazing you could get a drink delivered to you while you're hanging out at the pool deck and you just don't see a drink Runner or you're kind of hankering for a burger and you don't want to get your lazy butt up to go get it they can have it delivered to you with your medallion they know exactly where you're at with the app you order your food or your drink and it comes to you it's door Dash It's amazing now you can also order other things than food or drink you can order extra towels to your room extra pillows an ice bucket you name it this ocean now feature I'm going to use the heck out of it I think it's highly worth it to purchase it if you're just on a standard plan without Plus or without Premiere it's just a great feature enhance your crew experience by getting ocean now now earlier on in this video I did talk about our very first experience with a medallion class ship and beforehand as I said you can kind of use it to pay for anything you want on the ship well you can still do that with of course this on your medallion class experience nowadays you just tap your wrist to pay anything and it's taken care of now the cool thing is Princess is starting to work with vendors in Port to use your medallion to use ocean pay as well it's pretty darn cool you now don't have to necessarily bring credit cards if you're just kind of hanging around the port area that you know you're going to maybe just visit a few shops here and there and if they have ocean pay you don't have to bring a credit card it's a nice secure way to do your transaction you don't have to worry about having a credit card with you and possibly getting it you know the number stolen or anything along those lines it's pretty darn cool I can't wait to see princess you know push this out to even more ports there's a few ports that are doing it right now I hope that you'll see more ports in the future with Medallion pay now if you're a gambler there's another little cool thing in your medallion class experience it's called ocean casino now I'm not a big Gambler I don't know if I would play blackjack or poker or anything of those lines on this little app for that I don't know I just feel like I would rather be in the interaction of a casino and have that you know like you know I guess Vibe of a casino those are kind of cool to me whenever I'm going to gamble I don't want to kind of just do it at the pool deck but they do have a sports book and I will probably use that on my next Cruise because guess what March Madness is going to be happening when I'm on my next cruise and who knows maybe make a game a little bit more interesting now if you're not of the AG to gamble they have something called ocean play it's just basic little app games on the net for your kids cool little games for them to do and you can kind of compete with each other to see who gets the highest score you'll create a little Avatar as well and it's kind of nice when you're walking through the ships and you see all the screens that you can interact with you know you might see your avatar swim by and that might make some cool little memories for you and your grandkid saying hey Grandpa look your turtle is up there next to my Dory fish which is pretty cool those are you know little nice touches that you just kind of see as you're walking through the ship and how the whole situation interacts with each other the ship knows you're walking by that screen and they'll throw your avatar up there and make your kids happy pretty cool now the next app within the app I want to talk about is Ocean View Ocean View is basically on your phone you can watch any of those movies or videos that you see in your cabin anywhere on the ship so if you're hanging out in the sanctuary and you just kind of want to watch a movie and you didn't spend the money for a cabana that has a TV you can just watch a movie right on your phone or on your iPad or your connected device it's pretty darn cool I love that whole concept that you just are not stuck in your room to watch a movie you could be somewhere else on the ship and enjoy yourself enjoy the ship rather than being in your room I love this whole concept of Ocean View princess is so good about the movies that they have on offer in your cabin it's nice to have it be able to be played anywhere on the ship and you don't have to download a whole catalog of stuff that you want to watch on your devices for your cruise and finally let's talk about Medallion net basically what Medallion net is it gives you an internet connection on the ship which is nice if you need to stay connected now you get this for free with Princess plus and Princess Premiere you can purchase it all a cart with Princess standard now Medallion net is an excellent connection to the Internet it's just pretty darn fast you don't have different tiers you don't have like a basic and a premium tier it's just one tier of service everybody gets a streaming level of service and it's usually one of the best prices you can find on any cruise line for internet connection so I love the fact that princess does not bang you over the head for an internet connection in price it's just a great thing to do I seen prices as low as $6 per person per day you know actually I shouldn't say per person I should say per device per day if you have like some loyalty with Princess otherwise it's maybe around $12 which is still a great price for high quality premium streaming type of Internet usually if you look at other Cruise Lines you're talking 20 $25 for that type of level of service so it's a good good price when you compare it to other cruise lines so there you go folks that is our video about The Medallion class experience I hope you enjoyed this video if you did hey give it a big thumbs up it really does help that YouTube algorithm it does help other people find this community and it does help other people find this Channel and if you kind of hanged out this long already hey think about subscribing and turn that notification Bell on if you haven't done so already it's so appreciated by us thank you so much for doing it and if I missed something about Medallion class let us know in the comments down below I love comments I love engaging with you folks in the comment section let us know what you think about Princess Medallion class experience we would love to hear from you so until we talk again next time this is Rob from Cru 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Published: Sun Feb 25 2024