We flew from new York to Amsterdam and spent a few days in the city before our cruise started. Beautiful city with lots to do and great food and museums but very expensive. We arrived on the constelation on a Monday and checked in with no problems and very cooperative crew who helped us solve a problem we had with our bookings. The ship is beautiful and easy to navigate. One of the things that made the cruise special were the captain and cruise director. Captain Tasos is very involved with the passengers and entertainment and should be a stand up comic. The cruise director, John Grantham was a lot of fun and very accessible and engaging. On my previous two cruises on Princess I had no idea who the captain or cruise director was.
Dining: the dining room was beautiful the service was good but the food was a little disappointing. The buffet was very disappointing with a poor selection of food.
Crew : excellent. Everyone was polite , cooperative and helpful. I had a fabulous spa massage.
attractive , clean and comfortable. Our room steward was very nice and worked very hard.