My wife and I are frequent cruisers (#46 so far) traveling on numerous cruise lines. We choose this cruise for its unusual itinerary Seattle, Ketchikan, Juneau, Glacier Bay, Petropavlovsk, Muroran, Pusan, Nagasaki, Osaka and an extended stay through Princess in Osaka.
We left N.Y. City on 9/24/25 arriving in Seattle the same day. Our transfers were O/K on arriving on the Diamond Princess we found it to be beautiful ship as expected since it is brand new.
Our room was nice,we choose a minisuite and was quite satisfied with it. We choose 1st seating for dinner so we could go to the early shows. Here is where our problems started -- on the first night we went to the show and after looking for what seem forever found a seat. The next night we did the same but could not find a seat -- every seat was taken with people sitting on the stairways and exits. We missed the show this went on throughout the entire cruise there was no way you could go to the early sitting for dinner and make the shows. Most people who wanted to see the show had to cut short there dinner to make the show. We found out what the problem was is the theater only sits 750 people that's not even enough to sit the first sitting not even counting open sitting and the buffy so if you wanted to see the show you had to bypass dinner or rush through it. But what really bothered me was the ship's company disregarding all safety concerns for its passengers letting them sit on stairways and exits, many in wheelchairs in the rear of the theater not being able to move because of the number of people there. When I brought my concerns to the ship's company they advised me to go to the later show and totally disregarded my safety concerns for the overcrowding. I also asked them if they would broadcast the shows on the TV in the rooms and public areas and was informed that if they did that no one would go to the shows, What a Laugh.