My husband (Bernie) and I booked this 10 night Mexican cruise about six months prior after having done a similar itinerary two years ago. This was our tenth cruise with Princess. We booked an inside guarantee and were assigned Dolphin 111, very far forward. This caused some problems as Dolphin is deck 9 and when people tried to phone us 9 + 111 they were often put thru to emergency... note for our cabin you had to dial 9 9 111.

We sailed out of San Francisco, with stops in Acapulco, Zihuatanejo, Puerto Vallarta and Cabo San Lucas.

We flew into San Francisco two nights early and stayed at the Hilton Financial District that was booked thru Priceline. The hotel was perfect, close to everything and very accommodating. On the day of sailing we checked out at noon and took at taxi to the pier. This is about the time we noticed something wasn't right. The porter took our bags - note we need to get new luggage tags for our bags as I forgot the tags at home, he provided blank ones, which did cause some delay in getting our bags, but we got them. He informed us that the ship had just started disembarking passengers. Okay we thought no problem we will head out and pick up the essentials. We returned around 2 pm and were able to check in but they were still disembarking passengers so we were told to return at 3:15 pm. Thankfully pier 39 is right there so we went for a nice lunch and walked around. Back at the pier at 3:30 and we board the ship and did our "I am on another cruise dance". Read more