just to give a little background. this is a 23 rd cruise for my husband and I. I am 39 and he is 41. we like to cruise at least 2 to 3 time a year. we sailed numerous Caribbean cruises and European. we sailed celebrity,rccl, carnival,ncl, cunard, Holland America,and princess. our first experience with princess was a positive one. it was inaugural sail to panama canal on dawn princess. at that time it was not owned by carnival so the service and food was amazing. ever since carnival took over it went down hill. we also sailed Grand Princess and Caribbean princess in 2004. it was ok then but not great the only reason we picked this cruise was because we had the family traveling with us and no one wanted to fly. this ship suited our work schedules so we decided to give it a chance. The embarkation process was smooth. Once on board the ship, there was no welcome or any other resemblance of a real greeting by Princess personnel. the only thing we noticed was everyone was trying to sell you something even when they saw our hands were full with luggage.

our cabin faced lifeboats so not much of a view,but there was enough room for everything. the bathroom was on the ugly side. it reminded me somewhat of a hospital bathroom. the lighting was green so it was not ideal if one wanted to put makeup on and the rest of the light was on a dark side. at least it was kept clean by the cabin attendant. on a formal night My husband sent a suit to be cleaned they brought it back with same spots and charged us a full price for cleaning. when we asked the cabin guy he said they did not have the chemicals. anyway they did not give us the money back nor cleaned his suit. so the formal night number two was with same stains we started with but they advertise all over that they do dry cleaning.

everyone else got a bottle of water in their cabin but we only got three cans of coke in the fridge that hardly worked with no ice. we could only buy water at the casino. Read more