Enjoyable cruise, comfortable ship - the real star of the cruise was the Norwegian scenery, particularly the wild and remote North Cape, and the midnight sun.

The ship's staff were superb, polite, helpful, doing everything they could. I had an inside cabin, fine, comfortable and quiet. Food was very good, and queues not long - with the exception of the slightly dysfunctional and badly managed International Café.

Entertainment good, but I did feel that the entertainment management hadn't appreciated the (rather elderly) demographic of the customers (songs by Justin Beiber, Madonna? really?). Princess in-house singers and dancers excellent, rock band Starwave just as good (even though they didn't seem to get the sound balance right - piercing drums, very slow, almost inaudible bass), but clearly very talented musicians. Comedians funny but felt the second comedian took too many liberties insulting members of the audience - left some of us feeling a bit uncomfortable. Read more