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Coral Princess Review

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Alaska Cruisetour August 2011

Review for Alaska Cruise on Coral Princess
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TravelSmith24
10+ Cruises • Age 60s

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Sail Date: Aug 2011
Cabin: Balcony

We are experienced cruisers (17 cruises total; 10 with Princess) who had done the Alaska coastal cruise once previously, about 14 years ago. This was our first opportunity to add on the inland cruisetour portion of the trip. I would HIGHLY recommend the cruisetour to anyone considering an Alaskan trip. Inland Alaska is very different from the coastal ports...each unique in their own way and all worth seeing!

AIR ARRANGEMENTS

While this review is going to be 90% positive, I will go ahead and get the negative out of the way now. Princess' "EZ Air" program seems to be anything but easy. This is the second time we have booked air through Princess and we have had dismal experiences both times. In each instance we had delayed and/or canceled flights on our first outbound leg from our home city, causing the airline to reroute us with other carriers so that we wouldn't miss the ship. We finally made it to Vancouver, but it was a real nail biter as to whether we were going to make it in time. And this was only a three-hour flight from L.A.! We had a similar experience on our last cruise from Rome to Venice. Once again we had a delayed flight that would have caused us to miss our connection, which resulted in us being rerouted to a different airline. We definitely would have missed that cruise except that a group of 160 passengers on a Princess flight from England was even later than we were, therefore they held the ship for them. If it had just been the two of us, we would have been left watching the ship sail away! By booking air with Princess you are guaranteed that they will get you to the next port at their expense, but it would not be an ideal way to begin a journey. The Princess Air flight times also seem to be less than desirable and often laden with multiple connections. In the future we are going to 1) book our own air arrangements and 2) book a hotel in the departure city for one or two days prior to avoid these hair-raising experiences. Actually, we are going to wipe out the need for airlines altogether on our next cruise. We're sailing from LA to Hawaii round trip!

Cabin Review

Balcony

Cabin BC

Great balcony...much larger than those on Aloha and Baja decks. Close to elevator, but not noisy.

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