Grand Princess Review

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Grand Princess - Eastern Mediterranean

Review for the Eastern Mediterranean Cruise on Grand Princess

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Sail Date: Jul 2006
Cabin: Balcony

This was our 6th cruise and second with Princess. My wife and I are in our late 50's and enjoy cruising about every other year. We very much enjoyed this cruise and the itinerary. We flew from Philadelphia, PA to Paris over night where we were to get a connecting flight to Venice. Because of a sudden thunderstorm at Philadelphia, our flight was delayed for 3 hours. We missed our connecting flight. Air France met us as we got off the plane and escorted us to another terminal where we boarded a commuter flight to Bologna, Italy. We were told that in Bologna, a bus would take us to Venice, about a 2 hour bus ride. Upon reaching Bologna, Air France dropped the ball. No one met us at the gate and no one at the airport seemed to know anything about our bus. After getting our luggage, we waited for someone to find us. Eventually the bus driver came looking for us. The two busses that were to be used to get all of us to Venice (48 total) were too small to carry all of the luggage. We waited another hour for a truck to come and pick up the extra luggage. We then were taken to the Venice airport where Princess met us and transported us and our luggage to the ship.

We originally were to be on ship by 11:30 am but did not board until 7:30 pm. My wife and I had been awake now for about 33 hours. We had missed our dinner seating so went to the Horizon Court Buffet for something to eat. After eating we felt better and decided to see Venice that evening rather than in the morning (the ship left Venice at 12:30 the next afternoon) and we knew we would never arise early enough. We took a Princess provided water taxi to Venice city and had a wonderful time getting lost trying to find the sights. We returned to the ship around 12:30 am completely exhausted. The Grand Princess is the largest ship we have sailed on to date. At first sighting, we were worried that on a ship so large, service and public accommodations would be sub par. That was not the case. The ship was magnificent. It was sparkling clean and everything we tried worked as it was supposed to.

The cabin was quite nice, roomy with a balcony that is not exposed from above. There was plenty of storage and the bathroom was small but satisfactory even for me (a large man at 6'1", 300 pounds). Our room steward Chai met us upon arrival at 7:30 and from that time on greeted us by our first names every morning, afternoon, and evening if we saw her in the corridor. She was one of, if not the best, room steward we have ever had.

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