WiFi internet billing was horrible with online time intermittently not being applied to our internet packages. Internet cafe staff simply stated that they couldn't do anything about this problem and we had to ask for a credit when this occurred. I thought I had solved this problem by turning off all of my tool bars and update features as the internet billing was OK for two days after this was done. This happen again early on disembarkation morning and I had to take care of this as we had an cash account that had been settled the night prior to have an zero balance that would allow me to disembark without a hold up. We had this happen to us once because of a few dollars billing error.

Same laptop computer worked fine on all prior cruises it was on including the Century Hawaii cruise.

Afternoon tendering in St. Barths was very slow as it was being done very inefficiently for the return to the ship. Even though there were hundreds of passengers lined up outside in the rain, the tenders were being loaded only to 3/4 capacity or with 65 instead of their 90 passengers capacity. Security indicated that the swells were to high to load more but it was one of the more calmer tendering seas of our 43 cruises. I took pictures to show how calm it was. In fact we were tendered into Grand Cayman the week before and the seas were rougher and the Princess tenders were used to capacity. Read more