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Grand Princess Review

3.5 / 5.0
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Holidays in the Eastern Caribbean

Review for the Eastern Caribbean Cruise on Grand Princess
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First Time Cruiser • Age 60s

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Sail Date: Dec 2010
Cabin: Balcony

We've cruised with HAL and Celebrity before but we liked the fact that this cruise did both Christmas and New Years and so we decided to give Princess a try. I have to agree with much of what Bahmexpan wrote in their review especially about the smoking...people are smoking all over the ship and the crew really doesn't care.

It's hard to believe that the ship was launched in 1998 because the decor generally has a real mid 80s feel to it (all that wood and the pastel colours etc) make the ship feel much much older than it is...hopefully the time in dry dock will be well used because we generally like the feel of the ship (although getting to the Boticelli restaurant is way more difficult than it should be).

Indeed the entertainment was hit and miss (and Princess must retire "Stardust" it's just painful to sit through)...especially when Princess boasts about how young its passengers are!!...all the entertainment is way over miked so sitting and listening to almost any of it is next to impossible...and indeed all Ray "Mr. Pianoman" Coussins does is bang on his over miked piano and drive most people away...and this was the first cruise we've been on with no string quartet (again I'm sure that's a Princess thing).

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Balcony

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As with the Princess the closets have no doors (so that's a bit weird), Caribe deck is the best deck because the balconies are the most tiered (more space) but also the fewest number of people can see you on your balcony and with the overhang you can avoid being seen at all)...we had 'extra footage' on our balcony (C743) but really didn't need it because the Caribe balconies are huge (by cruise ship standards...easily held 4 chairs and the table and could have held more). The cabin is pretty quiet because one side is beside a large crew storage area that no one ever seemed to access and a hall way that was only for emergency exits on the far side of the crew storage area...which meant only passengers on one side of the cabin) I don't know if all Princess showers have the amazing shower head that this cabin did but it was by far the best shower head ever experienced on a cruise ship (the shower is tiny BUT the shower head and the water pressure make up for that "small" fact).

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