Coral Princess Review

Cruising with a Bang!!!

Review for the Panama Canal & Central America Cruise on Coral Princess
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Georgiane
First Time Cruiser • Age 60s

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Sail Date: Nov 2008

I want to start off by saying this was a wonderful cruise and we are just so sorry to be home again after the fantastic time we had cruising the Panama Canal. We did not stay at a hotel since we are from the Los Angeles area and it was only a 40 minute drive for us to get to the port. My better (or should I just say other half?) always wants to make sure that we get to the ship on time, so needless to say we had a shuttle pick us up at 10:00 A.M, well, they were early... We got to the port around 10:30, but was a great way to start off a cruise. We were checked in within minutes and waited in the lounge for a little over 30 minutes and got to our cabin by 11:30. We had a balcony room in the front. (beware - if you have a tendency to get sea sick pick a cabin in the middle). We love falling asleep to the motion of the ocean. The cabin was compact but had plenty of room for our things on the two week cruise.

The Coral Princess (sister ship to the Island Princess) is a great ship. We never felt crowded or had any problems getting a chair in the pool area. I have to admit we usually spend our time in the Lotus Pool area and really did not lay out to get a tan. I loved the Lotus Pool (and just like we did on the Island Princess we spend a lot of time in this area). The ship was very clean and we did not see any areas that were not well maintained.

We are not show people and therefore I cannot recommend any of the shows - we only saw the Crew Talent Show (excellent) and one comedian (not good). I can however recommend the wine tasting - we did the two that were offered and thoroughly enjoyed them. Learned more information on wine then I can ever use. Guess you could say we are becoming Wine Snobs. We spend a little bit of time in the casino each night - and I can say that in the end we walked out ahead!! Lots of fun - I decided to try all the different table games available. Not being a gambler I had never played any of the games and maybe it was beginners luck but out of 12 nights of playing, I only lost two nights...

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Great Cabin, cabin space was great with lots of hangers. No noise issues.

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