Pacific Princess Review

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Matriarch
10+ Cruises • Age 70s

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Sail Date: Dec 2010
Cabin: Balcony

The Pacific Princess was late arriving in For Lauderdale, due to experiencing "bad weather" near Bermuda - don't they have forecasters and planners to avoid sailing through weather that disabled multiple elevators, destroyed all the open stock in all the bars, and generally shook up the ship?

In any event, the line tried to "make nice" by opening a Hospitality Center at the port, where we could go to a shopping mall or stay in the Center until we boarded. Sandwiches were eventually served for dinner - but there were no special accomodations for those few children coming aboard, and the seating grew uncomfortable after the first few hours. A quartet of a capella carolers was our entertainment.

Boarded around 9:15 p.m., but by 11 still no luggage (elevators are out, remember?) so we slept in the clothes we were wearing when we left home on Tuesday evening. We didn't sail until the following morning, and learned that the line had cancelled the stop at Devil's Island, but that we'd do a "scenic cruise-by" instead. Since that was one of two ports of significant interest to us, I was quite displeased. I would much rather have seen the Island than to spend an entire day in St. Thomas, the shoppers' Mecca, where most cruisers have been before.

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