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Grand Princess - Western Caribbean

Review for the Western Caribbean Cruise on Grand Princess
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Stevesan
First Time Cruiser • Age 80s

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Sail Date: Mar 2006
Cabin: Balcony

This is a review of our W. Caribbean cruise on Grand Princess (GP) March 11, 2006, R/T Galveston, TX. Up front, you should know this was a Spring Break cruise topped off by the maximum capacity of 2900 passengers, which included only 538 Princess repeaters. There were 900 minors. The timing and passenger load obviously slanted our experience and colors the following comments. Your mileage may differ.

This was a good seven-day cruise with four ports. Three tender ports and one dock, Costa Maya, which we missed due to high winds. All of the tender ports required use of large local tenders. These take considerable time to load. We were fortunate that on our tender trips we were nearly last on and first off, so our waits were minimal. Others may have experienced up to twenty or thirty minute delays.

Although large, 109,000 GRT, GPs interior design minimizes the impact of her scale. The only place I became conscious of her size was walking full aft to fore through a cabin deck corridor. Then the extraordinary length becomes very real. This was our second Princess cruise, both of them on GP. Again we enjoyed the marvelous multi layered Lido deck, the courtesy and efficiency of the crew, and the excellent food quality in the main dining rooms. A weight gain of six pounds in only one week attests to the latter. A full month of Stouffers will be required to regain my svelte figure.

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