We sailed on the Crown Princess out of San Juan April 28. I had sailed 2 times before (RCCL and Carnival) and my wife 1 time w/ Carnival. We are married and in our early 30's.

Embarkation was quite easy, although we were surprised that when the cab dropped us off, there was little direction from any staff. We just followed suit and got in a line and hoped we were doing the right thing.

Upon finding our cabin, we were unfortunately disappointed at the condition of it, which I hope is not commonplace. It appeared that it had barely been cleaned from the prior guests. There were some spotty stains on the chair which were obviously overlooked by whomever cleaned it,b/c it would have been very easy to get off. THere were some stains above the bed, and when my wife pulled back the covers, there were stray hairs all over the bed. Our cabin steward presented himself just after we arrived the cabin, and we quickly pointed out these issues and he resolved the problems quickly. He was wonderful, and took care of us the rest of the trip. First impressions are important, and even though we had this situation, we remained positive and forgot about it. The closet space was great, and even though small shower it worked out fine and I feel the layout was very nice. One nice thing is that we were to have a partially obstructed view due to the lifeboat. We thought it would be hanging right in front of our window, but it was down much lower so we had quite a decent view out on the water. Read more