We paired two 10 day cruises into a 20 day back-to-back and were far from alone.....at our turn-around day in Port Everglades, it was announced that approximately 600 other passengers were staying aboard for another (at least) 10 days.

This was our 10 cruise and our fifth with Princess and it met all our expectations. On our last trip we had qualified for Platinum status and although it offers several "perks", the most useful ones are the 250 minutes of free internet per person, and priority boarding. Although we arrived a little early at the ship and expected to have to wait for at least an hour, in actuality, we were ordering lunch in the Da Vinci dining room less than an hour after arriving at the port.

We prefer the traditional dining and had the 5:30 seating in Da Vinci, which gets you out in time to make the first show in the Princess Theatre. I am not sure why some other critiquers would claim the food was "inedible". Sure, not every dish on the menu will appeal to everyone, but with at least six entrees on each of the daily and "always available" menu, there should always be something to satisfy the most discriminating palate. Yes, I did get some tough lamb, and occasionally I found the vegetables a bit undercooked, but overall, very good to excellent. Horizon Court, where we usually ate lunch, was another story. The food is not bad--but not great. It suffers from cafeteria style cooking where dishes sit on the steam table for extended period. That notwithstanding, there was still adequate choice to make an appetizing meal. One of the things that was missing from our previous Princess cruises was the deck buffet. On each of the other trips, there was a regional/ethnic buffet. On the Hawaiian trips (2) there was a deck buffet with Hawaiian foods, on a Caribbean one, we had such island dishes as pulled pork, jerk chicken, etc., and on our far eastern trip, we had two deck buffets of oriental dishes. Read more