This was our first experience with Princess Cruise Lines. We have sailed with Carnival and Royal Caribbean in the past. The Sapphire Princess was by far an enormous, beautiful and immaculate ship. It is not quite as glitzy as the Royal Caribbean ships, but has a lot of class!
Arrival and Embarkation: Our journey was a 7-day cruise from Los Angeles to the Mexican Riviera. We drove from San Diego, Calif., to the Port of San Pedro in Los Angeles, arriving at 3:00 PM. We parked our car and immediately a shuttle came along and took our luggage and drove us up to the terminal for check-in. We walked right up to the desk, received our passes and boarded the ship right away.
We proceeded to our regular balcony stateroom on the Baja Deck (Deck 11) and our luggage arrived within 45 minutes. The room was somewhat small, but very clean and nice, had a large closet for clothes hanging, a nice doable bathroom with good water pressure in the shower, a 19" TV, fridge., hair dryer, desk, phone, nice comfortable bed and sheets, extra pillows, and a safe. I was happy. I was glad we booked a balcony room on the Baja deck because it was totally private. There is no one from higher levels looking down into your balcony.