Caribbean Princess Review

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Pleasant Honeymoon Cruise!

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jag27
First Time Cruiser • Age 40s

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Sail Date: May 2008
Cabin: Balcony

We are in our early 30s and late 20s and this was my 3rd cruise, 2nd with Princess and 2nd cruise for my husband, 1st with Princess. This was our honeymoon cruise and it was perfect since it left the Monday after the wedding. We left Boston at 8am on the charted motor coach through Princess and it was perfect. Once we gave the bus driver our luggage, we didn't see it again until we got to our cabin. We made one stop in Springfield, Ma, so we got to Brooklyn's Red Hook Cruise Terminal at about 12:30pm. After we identified our luggage with the porter, we walked through security, filled out a health form and got into the fast moving line for our cruise card. We were at our stateroom by 1:30pm.

We had room R612 on the Riviera deck and we found this to be a great location! We had a balcony BA room and were on the port side of the ship. When we got to our room, Armando our steward, was there and greeted us by our first names. He gave us some paperwork and tour tickets. Only one of suitcases showed up, so we went for some lunch at the Cafe Caribe since we were hungry. We found the food to be ok, but sat by the Outriggers bar and just enjoyed the scenery. After that, we toured around the boat and found ourselves at the Lotus Spa and joined a tour. We decided to get the couples weekly pass to the Thermal Suite and used it as much as possible. I really loved the stone lounges and fell asleep there a few times. My husband loved the thermal grotto and would take his book in there to relax. We also booked a couples massage before the cruise and had that done on the second sea day. Though it was expensive, it was very relaxing (we were splurging for the honeymoon). We had dinner at the buffet the first night and really enjoyed the cold seafood buffet - especially the king crab legs!

On our first two sea days, we spent our time at the Lotus pool on the forward side of the ship and terrace pool, which was aft. I liked the Terrace pool better as it was very close to our stateroom and there was plenty of shade when I needed to get out of the sun. We really didn't try getting a lounger by the Neptune or Calypso pools since we knew that most passengers would be at those pools.

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