Emerald Princess Review

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Costco at Sea with a Touch of Racism, No Class, and The World's Worst Food

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nyccruiser100
2-5 Cruises • Age 40s

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Sail Date: Sep 2015

We traveled as a group of 8 to celebrate two milestone bdays of our parnets. What a terrible experience all around -- i'll go piece by piece but i would not recommend this trip to my worst enemy.

Food -- absolute joke. Horizons court makes ponderosa look like a 5-star restaurants the food is tasteless and the ingredients are cheap. Soups are poured from heated plastic bags which look like they were rejected by costco. Their 'famous pizza' reminds me of a middle school cafeteria. The main ding rooms served terrible food with terrible ingredients. Princess cuts corners at every turn. The food simply inedible. Menus include a shrimp cocktail which took the word to shrimp to heart --- as in so tiny it required a magnifying glass. Fettucini alfredo --- kroger pasta with melted velveeta cheese - was a recommended dish. Beef is exclusively grade d and clearly princess has the same supplier as taco bell. What is truly said is we ate at both sabatinis and crowne grill -- the 'paid restaurants' and they were actually very good --- so clearly they know how to make good food -- and are just sticking it to passsengers at every other meal. The grill was heating frozen burgers and hot dogs. Gross.

Service - unattentive, uncaring. Forget going the extra mile, these guys won't even go an extra step. Asking 'passenger services' to book a dinner reservation for us as we were going to be on an excursion the whole day was met with a --- please call this number and if they're not picking up thats not my problem. When they ran out of something at a restaurant, it was tough luck we've run out. Just a whatever experience.

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