Royal Princess Review

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Home Sweet Home

Review for the British Isles & Western Europe Cruise on Royal Princess
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jolly121
10+ Cruises • Age 80s

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Sail Date: Aug 2015
Cabin: Deluxe Balcony

Details of the Eavesway coach company Princess line provided were useless because the service from Cumbria to Southampton was not running....not enough passengers. A 5 a.m. start 2 x taxi rides and three trains later we arrived. 2 seventy two year olds' do not want to lug cases on and off trains. Deluxe balcony cabin with full view was found to be the smallest deluxe cabin we have been in, the whole bathroom was no larger than a wet room and virtually impossible to dress in there. The deluxe balcony was just large enough for one passenger to use the sun bed to lie down, 2nd passenger had to sit up. No wardrobes just a clothes rail. We had paid £4,700 for this. I suffered a very small lip bleed in the night and left a half square centimeter stain on the duvet cover....no worries they turned it round three times to hide it. The large TV had a good selection...if you paid for it.

The fact that the Allegro set time dining room was never more than half full speaks volumes for the food. Tasteless, colourless, same vegetables (courgettes and carrots) night after night, with the odd asparagus tip, it was dreadful. All soups were consomme and tasted like Bovril. You could if you wished dine at several a.la carte venus for 25$ each per night? if you wanted a decent meal. The Horizon Bistro which we used at lunch times was again less than good. Dry, chicken, dry turkey, dry chicken, dry turkey. Need we say more. I ended up with cornflakes every day for breakfast - what can you do to a box. Add to this the undrinkable coffee and you are glad you took a drinks package at 1,342 $. At least you could have decent coffee as and when. Although drinks in the room were not included. Bottles of wine to be paid for. They already have the obligatory 15% service charge on drinks etc. Add to this the 276 $ gratuities it is quite a costly experience.

All ports were a bus ride from the designated stop apart from 2. Obviously an outrageous charge was made by the ships tour operators for anyone wanting to reach the advertised location. The first port was Guernsey, too rough for the tenders and so a credit of 2.56 $ was awarded. From various feed back given not a lot of information was forthcoming on the trips regarding history etc. Arriving in Dublin, having spent some time teaching the Americans how to say "Dun Laoghaire" because this was on the documentation as to where we were. We took a taxi to Dublin and a taxi back to Dun Loaghaire. Why? The ship was in Dublin Harbour!

Cabin Review

Deluxe Balcony

Cabin DE

Clean small and ...very small shower facilities.

Port Reviews

Cobh (Cork)

too expensive by ships tour bus to see Cork

Greenock (Glasgow)

All Ports were a costly ride away from the designated City

Kirkwall

Nice little town for a walk

Edinburgh (South Queensferry)

Excursions too expensive

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