We chose this cruise because we had always wanted to visit the Maritime Provinces of Canada, and it had been quite a while since we had been in New England, so this seemed to fill the bill. We have sailed on Princess many times and were happy to find a cruise that reacqainted us with our northern Atlantic coastline, explored the Canadian Maritime Provinces, and as a huge bonus, traveled down the St. Lawrence Seaway and offered a whole day in Quebec City!

The Princess meet-and-greet at LaGuardia was not up to par. A throng of us milled around looking for the Princess rep(s) with sign(s), asked around, and finally found 2 reps taking names in the middle of the crowd. After an hour-and-a-half wait, we boarded a bus; 8 passengers were left curbside--unacceptable. We found later that they waited another 1/2 hour for transportation. Once we got to the pier, embarkation went fairly smoothly.

Although the Caribbean Princess is a beautiful ship, it could use a facelift and some maintenance/repair: Broken tiles in the bathroom, dust collected in the corners of the room, loud grinding/creaking noise when tenders were launched or the apparatus was worked on (several times), and vibration of the ship. Read more