My sister's & my first cruise on Princess was this past April to Hawaii on the Golden Princess and I crucified Princess on Cruise Critic. After that cruise I swore I would never sail Princess again but we had already booked another cruise with Princess on the Emerald Princess and would have cancelled it if it were not that we had already paid for the cruise and the air and we would have lost a lot of money if we were to cancel.

Well, I am glad we got a second chance with the Emerald Princess. Everything that was awful and wrong on the Golden Princess didn't exist or was improved and we had a wonderful time.

All of the theaters on Princess ships are too small to handle the crowd and on the Golden if you weren't in your seat an hour ahead of show time you were turned away. On Emerald the theater is still too small but they fixed the problem by having 3 shows per night instead of 2 and no one was turned away. On the Emerald they also added an extra Caribe Court to the buffet dining so there was more buffet area and more seating and people didn't have to stand in line to get into the buffet area which is also too small but it was a great improvement. The Production shows on the Emerald were excellent and we had 4 of them; the other entertainment was also very good and a big improvement over the Golden. The daily activities on the Golden were terrible and people were bored but on the Emerald we had 3 different very good lecturers and many other activities that appealed to the greater number of passengers rather than to just a few special interest groups. The food was also a great improvement. We had lobster twice and everything we had was excellent and cooked to perfection. We found the service on the Golden to be very good and the Emerald was also excellent. Read more