Sapphire Princess Review

A wonderful cruise, but save us from the whingers and entitled cruisers.

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2-5 Cruises • Age 80s

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Sail Date: Apr 2016
Cabin: Balcony

Embarkation was dreadful. From the time of luggage drop it took two and a half hours to reach our cabin. Our basic verandah cabin (never a stateroom, how pretentious) suited us well. The carpet was well worn and the verandah had seen better days but it was clean and comfortable. The ship itself was very good but a lot of frequent cruisers were unhappy as Sapphire is to stay at Shanghai for short gambling/shopping trips in the Asian region for 6 months, and they were preparing the ship for the change over.

The Horizon Court Buffet is where you feed, you don't dine here. Don't you love it when you have your plate of food and are looking for a place to sit, you see a couple seated on a table for four but they give you the death stare if you look like sitting there. If you normally visit a restaurant dressed in shorts, T shirt, and bare feet wearing flip flops then you will fit in here. We were amused how people heaped their plates, ate, and then re filled them and took them back to their cabin. Because the Dining Rooms are not always open we were forced to feed here on a few occasions. The food was quite good about 3 star.

The Sante Fe and International dining rooms were wonderful and we rate the food as 4 star. At least there is something resembling a dining experience with food cooked to order. Food was generaly hot as plates were pre heated and delivered from the kitchen covered with plastic cloches. Lord save us from the Super Dooper Platinum Princess cruisers. Overheard conversations.

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Balcony

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Rather worn standard verandah cabin but clean, well designed and comfortable bed. We were very happy here.

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