After cruising various times on the Sun, Emerald, Grand, Crown, Ruby, Royal Princess and also the Eurodam with Holland America I was expecting more than what we got on our cruise on the Island Princess! I won't bore you with the full details but If I were you I would only go on this boat out of holiday season and without children, I'd be hard to pushed to set foot on this boat again. My mum and dad have been on the Coral which they preferred - as at the moment they don't seem to have crammed all the additional cabins on the back of the boat yet!
Embarkation - fast and easy no issues.
Cabin - Minisuite nice size, good layout but needed new carpet. Was apparently marked for replacement but hadn't been done. Cabin not the usual 'pristine clean' of other Princess boats.
Nice Minisuite, good location apart from a staff door being opposite, was very loud and constantly being open and banging shut. The cabin itself was of nice size and was reasonably clean, as mentioned the carpet needed replacement and the balcony could have done with a clean, some of the bed linen although clean had holes and as frayed. Plenty of space to spread out though and always nice to have a bath to relax in :)
Go and see the Queen Mary 2 if you can what a fantastic experience.
Wished we booked the dolphin tour now as located right on the dock. Nice area to walk round, plenty of places to drink and eat and do a little bit of shopping, next time would probably go to the beach as we heard it was very nice.
Tour cancelled, nothing else to do and wasn't venturing off doing anything independently :( dirty and grubby and didn't feel safe!