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Pride of Aloha - Hawaii

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First Time Cruiser • Age 50s

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Sail Date: Mar 2007
Cabin: Mid-Ship Oceanview Porthole Window

This was our first cruise and also our first trip to Hawaii. I had to admit I came prepared after reading so many not too great reviews about this ship. But as it turned out, it certainly beats our expectation in every way. We had a great time sailing on POAl and we will definitely sail again with them. Hawaii itself is just a paradise and there is no other destination quite like it. We mainly treated our ship as a floating hotel/restaurant so I have to admit we did not really participate or experience the full cruise experience. But this was what we intended to do. We found that considering it was our hotel and restaurant in one, it really was a great deal for the price we paid.(consider everything in HI costs more!) And in our opinion this is the best way to get a preview of each Island of Hawaii. I can't think of any better way to see the islands than being on a cruise. I will break it down into a few categories below:

1) Ship and stateroom: The ship was clean and well decorated(with cheerful Hawaii theme colors). We had a HH(oceanview) cabin with a round pothole window. Sure the cabin was small, but it was acceptable for cruise ship standard. We found the cabin adequate. We were light packers so luggage room wasn't a problem for us. Only complaint was the weird odor on the bed sheet and pillow cases. They didn't smell fresh and had an odor similar to grease smell.

2) Service: We found the service to be good, but not over the top. Service at the specialty restaurant we tried(le Bistro) was wonderful. We could definitely tell the difference. Our cabin steward was almost invisible to us. Now, the only bad service we received was at the Long Board Bar. And it's just for that one male server because the other tables being waited by another female server were doing fine. We missed dinner one night at the dining restaurants and it was the only thing open at that hour. Little did we know that it took our server 1 full hour to bring out our bar food(chicken wings and sandwiches) without acknowledging us. He never brought us silverware, condiments or check back with us on our drinks. Most of the time we couldn't even see him anywhere in sight! We saw another waitress working there and she was much faster with her tables. We wish she could have been our server that night.

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