Grand Princess Day 3: San Diego | My First Princess Cruise | West Coast | Solo Travel

Hello Travelers, I am traveling solo on my first Princess cruise. This series is out of order from the cruises I took. I only found a place in my editorial calendar here for the video series. It took place October 14 - 18, 2021. It was a four day cruise visiting Ensenada and San Diego. Today we docked in San Diego, and if you’ve never been to that port, they dock the ships right there almost within touching distance of the main sea front board walk. There are vendors there on weekends with their booths selling crafts and trinkets, and it is just a really nice walkable ports to visit. Since this was the first US port we visited after a foreign port, we had to clear Customs getting off the ship. Now I had my shore excursion ticket, which said when and where to meet for the tour. But then Princess put a flyer in my cabin that said to pick an appointment time to go and clear Customs. We were to meet early in the Wheelhouse Bar, which we did, but the person handling the process said everyone was going to be walked off the ship and not allowed until everyone on board had cleared (around 10:30am). This was a problem for all the passengers there with shore excursion tickets that met on the ship at various times after. They were eventually able to sort it out, and told us to go to our shore excursion meetings if we had them, but otherwise to follow the process on the flyer. So once I did that, they gave us each stickers (with a color and a number) and sorted us into the groups based on which shore excursion we had all booked. Then they walked us off the ship in groups, took us to the building where they had Customs people set up, and then had us exit to the parking lot where our trolley was waiting. The tour I went on was a Hop on Hop off Trolley tour of San Diego, and we visited Coronado island, the gas lamp district and Balboa Park. It can be taken as a non-ship excursion and will be truly hop on/hop off, but our tour was handled differently and was just that one route. I had a drink (Butterfly Tea) from the Good Spirits bar at Sea, and that was refreshing. I got the whole presentation on video. If you order one of each of the drinks on the menu, you get the T-shirt too. Dinner was with new friends I met on the ship. Please like this video and subscribe to my channel to make sure you don’t miss future content. I have more videos for this cruise, as well as future cruises booked through the rest of this year and beyond. Thanks for watching! Solo Sue Jewel by American Legion, Prime by Catiso, and Twenty Eleven by Rocket Jr courtesy of Epidemic Sound | www.epidemicsound.com #itscruiseday #cruiselife #letscruise #cruisenews #cruiserestart #cruiseupdates #SoloTravel #SoloSueTravels #SoloSue #PrincessCruises #GrandPrincess #WestCoastCruising ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contact email: Sue@SoloSueTravels.com Instagram: SoloSueTravels Twitter: @SoloSueTravels1 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SoloSueTravels/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FTC disclosure this post or a video contains affiliate links which means I may receive a commission for purchases made through my links. Camera Gear I use: GoPro Hero 9: https://amzn.to/3y842v7 GoPro Hero 9 replacement batteries and charger: https://amzn.to/3j0yWiK Gimbal for GoPro: https://amzn.to/3zJDbpq Gimbal for iPhone 12 Pro Max: https://amzn.to/3l7zSV1 Extension rod for gimbals: https://amzn.to/3yfYbE1 iPhone Vlogging setup: https://amzn.to/2V60prb Favorite Travel Gear: Travelpro Checkin Bag: https://amzn.to/3lbTjMn Travelpro Carryon Bag: https://amzn.to/37awEI9 Garment Bag: https://amzn.to/3BU1GlR Packing Cubes: https://amzn.to/3ibNX27 Toiletry Bag: https://amzn.to/3i91iYK Cruise Safe Power Strip: https://amzn.to/3mgGlwX