Pride of America Review

Price of America Hawaii Dec 22 - 29

Review for Hawaii Cruise on Pride of America
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kathy
First Time Cruiser • Age 20s

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Sail Date: Dec 2007
Traveled with children

Sailed on PoA from Honolulu 7 nights. About the ship: The PoA is a floating hotel, like a holiday inn. While quite nice, if you go expecting a ship like the four seasons hotel you will be disappointed. We went on a Carnival cruise 3 yrs ago at the same time of year so we had some basis of comparison. The goal of this ship is to get you to the various islands and it meets that goal amazingly well. You see all of Hawaii and only unpack once, nothing is better than that. We saw everything we wanted to see. We did spend 3 extra days in Honolulu so we easily saw all of Oahu. I suggest if you go that far, spend the extra time.

The ship itself - very nice, very large, easy to navigate, interior decorating was lovely. It was clean I never saw one area that was not clean. Used the gym it was a bit small and one morning every treadmill and elliptical was in use but it met our needs. Hot tubs were fine. We did not use the pool but it was really small. Our room was on deck 7 and we had what was listed as "obstructed view", but I picked it from the layout and realized we would be between the first forward lifeboat and balcony rooms, so we really did not have hardly any obstruction. The window was floor to ceiling and we had a good view. Our room and bathroom were bigger than when we were on Carnival. There were three of us 2 adults and one 17 year old. The pullout bed for the teen was not very comfortable but he was ok with it. The main bed was great, big and comfortable. The facilities on the ship such as the bars, theaters, gameroom, library etc were all very nice.

About the odd odor on decks 5 and 6 that others have written about. It really exists!! If you hang around where the smell is then sure, it is a problem, but if you are just passing through you get a whiff and move on. The only place the smell remained was in Pink's champagne bar and I wonder how the staff tolerates it. But we sat at the bar on the left side one night and I did not smell it from that spot. You could not smell it in the library or the game room, it is just in limited areas, so just move on and you will be fine.

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