We just returned from a 31 day cruise to South America. It certainly was below average for Princess. Shore excursions were horrible and the fact that the shore ex. department lie made everything worse. We has a pre paid visit to a penguin rookery cancelled before the trip, because the animals migrated. This was a lie and we were never told that there was a trip to Magdelena Island where the penguins were there. Stop in Puerto Arenas was dangerous and everyone on this tour fell at least once, and my wife cracked a rib. The next trip was cancelled because "it was dangerous". It was slippery and very wet. The trip to Machu Picchu (a $5000.00 addition) was for 3 days. The last day was waste. We had lunch in Cusco, lunch on the flight back, and when we landed in Lima were taken to lunch instead of a tour of Lima. 50 people wanted to go back to the ship and were told that they could not do that, despite the fact that there were 5 busses. Don"t buy the Coffee Card. When we bought one a few cruises back, we were told it was good forever. It is not. I think the only person who had a really good time was the Captain, who spent the entire cruise with his family who were on board, in the pool and on excursions.