THANK YOU, PRINCESS CRUISES!!! What an amazing job of putting together a cruise to honor veterans .My husband and I flew in the day before the cruise and stayed at the Airport Doubletree by Hilton hotel at Houston Hobby. They have a free shuttle to and from the airport so we were able to go back to the baggage claim area the day of the cruise to meet our Princess transfer bus. This worked very ...
Caribbean Princess - May 1, 2008 through May 4, 2008
This is my first review, so I'll try to be thorough even though this was a short sailing. My partner and I have previously sailed twice only on HAL's Westerdam, so some of my review may be comparative. This was my Mother's first sailing altogether. I'm going to do this in a diary style and then cover some highlights at the end.
Thursday, May ...
Our HONEYMOON trip was on September 11-18th (CP was supposed to be to the Western Caribbean). The day before the voyage, Princess still had no clue what they were going to do (neither did my travel agent). They finally gave word that we were rescheduled for Eastern Caribbean due to the hurricane.
Embarkation was very quick (onboard within an hour). The ship was beautiful, big, and clean.
We ...