We booked this cruise having seen the price drop last spring and didn't think too much more about the trip while we got on with our very busy lives. Much later we stumbled upon the reviews from the same June 6th cruise -- and our hearts stopped. To see so many consistently terrible reviews almost made us cancel the trip. I believe that everyone who wrote in genuinely had a very unpleasant time -- it was Delorean Girl's summary that made us give the trip a try. We were hoping that things might have improved by the time our trip came around -- and indeed they had. The trip was a dream -- everything was ideal and I suspect that the criticism of the June 6th passengers was heard loud and clear by Princess.

There were no delays in boarding the ship as others experienced earlier. There was a short queue but it moved very quickly. No one was called by deck number -- we simply boarded as we arrived. Our bags were already in our stateroom when we got there. We had packed everything inside the bags in garbage bags after reading about the waterlogged suitcases that some people experienced on arrival on that ill-fated June 6th trip. Ours were dry. Next we checked out the mattresses -- we had seen the lumpy mattresses in photos and heard how awful they were. Ours appeared to be new. Hmmmmm -- we thought -- did Princess get the message???

The stateroom was great -B618- and the balcony was totally worth the money. Each time we woke up we opened the curtains to find staggeringly beautiful landscapes before us. We had wine in the evenings there and waved goodbye at sailaways from there -- my husband was constantly out there taking pictures. Read more