Regal Princess Review
A Few Minor Issues but All in All a Great Cruise Aboard the Regal!
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We booked this cruise on the recommendation of friends that we had met on a previous HAL Caribbean cruise in 2013. We met playing trivia and became fast friends. So when our friends emailed asking us to join them on this cruise and seeing it was a Transatlantic (on the cruise bucket list!) we said a resounding yes!
A little background: My husband and I are in our mid-50’s and still working. This was my 10th cruise and my husbands 9th, all on HAL ships with the exception of a Hawaii cruise my mother and I did last year on the Star Princess. After encountering lots of problems with the Star Princess cruise I was a little wary of going on the Regal. I shouldn’t have been! It is a gorgeous ship and I have very few complaints – really only ones that have to do with the ship itself. I’ll get to that later.
We stayed at the Holiday Inn Express Cruise Port and Airport in Ft Lauderdale – very nice hotel that runs shuttles to and from the airport and cruise port. Highly recommend.
Cabin Review
Mini-Suite with Balcony
Our cabin: We were in a mini-suite, B416, which was advertised as having a larger angled balcony. The cabin itself was great – roomy cabin and a nice sized bathroom with a tub/shower combo and spacious sink area. The beds were comfy as were the chair and sofa in the sitting area. Minor complaints here – there are 2 flat screen wall mounted TV’s, one in the sitting area and one in the sleeping area. The remote unfortunately turns on both TV’s, so it became a comedy sketch trying to turn on and off the TV in the sitting area because it would turn the other TV on and off at the same time. It was funny but also annoying. Even more annoying was how thin the walls are – you can hear the TV in the cabin next to yours. Never had that happen on a ship before, it was not cool. But the most annoying, and I would have been much more unhappy had it been a warmer weather cruise, is how TINY the balcony is. This is a mini-suite and there is BARELY enough room on the balcony for the two (uncomfortable) chairs (not loungers) and small table. You had to maneuver around them in order to get to the railing. So small that there was only room for one footstool. We are talking SMALL. What was scary was that the people who came in for the Cabin Crawl all remarked on how much bigger our balcony was than the ones in the Deluxe Balcony rooms. I can’t imagine. Very disappointing – for the $$ they charge for these rooms the balconies should be bigger.