As an elite Princess cruiser, I still prefer them to other lines I was really looking forward to this cruise at New Year. The ship is awesome to look at not to sail on. The amount of times that we came to dead ends and had to retrace our steps was significant the reason being that there are less through ways making more space for cabins and shops. The promenade is now full of lifeboats this was always my favorite part of the ship there is a tiny area on deck 7 with loungers, problem is this is a smoking area.

Enough has been said about the appalling lifts only one at a time seemed to work very slow going, also to repeat the internet is an expensive joke I was told the reason for this was the ship was big. Our 150 free minutes allowed us to do 2 emails and needed extreme patience.

A word of warning room M 303 has a service area above it . The first night I thought someone was unpacking but the constant dragging and shoving of whatever continued and also happened early morning and in the afternoon. We complained on many occasions the engineers came and confirmed the problem we were told that there was not another room on the ship. We were given a free bottle of wine and finally a small rebate I would have preferred a good nights sleep. Read more