Caribbean Princess Review
Outstanding Itinerary marred by old ship engine problems & bad pricing policies
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Being a loyal Princess customer who usually sails with Princess at least once or twice a year, I was a bit disappointed with my British Isles cruise and more importantly, with some recent Princess policies and responses which I think are very unfair to its loyal Captain Circle top tier members. The itinerary was superb and I would happily repeat the cruise as many of the ports had multiple attractions that I would have wanted to visit. Highlights include overnight at Glasgow to allow an excursion to watch opening night for the Edinburgh Tattoo, late evening departure from Dublin and a visit to the Orkney Islands.
Unfortunately the strong itinerary was offset by some serious negatives:
(1) weather is always a risk in Northern Great Britain and so we missed out on our visit to the Orkney Islands as there was a storm approaching with 50 knot winds (absolutely agree with the decision to skip the port rather than risk fighting with the storm but did want to mention the risk of bad weather exists intrinsically for this itinerary even in August, we also had wet and cold weather on several days in the North),
Cabin Review
Balcony
Deluxe balcony is same as a regular balcony cabin but with a larger balcony. Size is fine but Caribbean Princess is an old ship and therefore the amenities are dated (eg. no on demand TV and instead you watch what Princess broadcasts when it broadcasts over a dozen or so channels). Shower is fairly small so not much room to turnaround. Significantly notwithstanding I was traveling alone in single occupancy and requested a queen bed configuration, Princess simply put two twin beds together and did a bad job trying to hide the ridge where the two beds joined so effectively I was sleeping on one of the two pushed together twin beds or the other rather than on a queen bed. Usually when I cruise on Princess and select a queen bed configuration, I get one queen mattress instead of two pushed together twins.