My partner and I decided to stay closer to home this summer. Airfares to Europe were significantly higher this year, so we chose to do a 14 day B2B, Western /Eastern Caribbean cruise. After reading many of the negative reviews we were a bit hesitant, but in our opinion the earlier reviews were way off base. This was my 27th cruise and my Partner's 28th and we are both (especially me) are quite fussy.

Embarkation was fast and easy. The Princess Representatives were courteous and efficient and we were onboard within 20 minutes. The ship, just out of dry dock, was fresh and beautifully decorated.

We went to our balcony cabin on the Lido deck which we booked for the 14 days. We met our new steward, Gabriel. He was wonderful throughout the entire cruise and took care of all of our requests. Read more