Grand Princess September 28 - October 5, 2003 Eastern Caribbean Golden Princess November 30 - December 7, 2002 Eastern Caribbean

Not welcome back but welcome home! This our third cruise with Princess and second time around on the Grand. Second time on the Eastern Caribbean itinerary as we enjoyed this itinerary last December on the Golden Princess.

Aesthetically the difference between the two ships is just a bit of wear and tear on the inside of Grand, but when it comes to service there is a world of difference! From the moment we boarded the Grand it was smiles and welcome aboard. The Golden a lot of hurry up and wait to even get aboard, just because the photographers weren't ready to take the welcome aboard photo. Folks started getting irritated with that and once they realized they couldn't get aboard because of that they went around the photographers and boarded. The Grand once again slick and really negligible waiting with welcome back and let us show you to your stateroom. Golden's attitude was, there's the elevators which I didn't really notice until we returned to the Grand. Read more