Coral Princess Review

Coral Princess OK

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EverydayDisasters
First Time Cruiser • Age 60s

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Sail Date: Jul 2013

No one could be unhappy on this ship - clean; reasonable food (occasionally really salty but flavorful - as if someone got into the best cheese for cooking but forgot to adjust the salt; friendly staff, beautiful scenery.

air travel - use care with the Princess-associated air travel bookings. The ship times listed are for true departure; not last boarding. The air booking company treats the times as last boarding. The ship organizes various introductory contests in the hours before departure so it's best to get there several hours early. It wasn't pleasant being told by every check-in/security stop that we were too late and might not get on - as if we were bad - on the other hand, my husband was really pleased to miss the safety lecture. Check flight times carefully - I'm not really clear why a flight from anchorage to NYC through Texas - taking 4 extra hours and no savings over shorter 4-hour shorter flights would even be considered an option.

Naturalist lecture - Dr. Ryan - I know it's hard to talk for hours on end about ice melting but saying things like "'supposedly' 9,000 people perished in the tsunami" and the current rate of glacier melt is nothing more than part of the natural cycle are a bit suspect.

Cabin Review

B-215 Great, unobstructed view of College Ford & bridge. 4 small drawers in desk, closet with shelves, closet with lots of hangers for storage. (no chest of drawers) 10 & 11 deck (B&C) were considered best views.

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