This was our first experience of Princess Cruises and we were very impressed; we have been on 6 P&O cruises previously so our loyalty points gave us an upgrade to ‘Platinum’ status which gave us a great bonus of 250 minutes each free wifi while on board.

The itinerary after Barcelona where we joined the ship was Toulon, Livorno; Rome, Naples, Mykonos, Istanbul, Kusadasi, Athens and ending in Venice, only 2 sea days on a 12 night cruise.

The Regal Princess is obviously very new and it has been very well designed with lots of space for sunbeds, a varied selection of bars inside the ship and we never felt as though we were sharing the ship with over 3,800 others. Read more