While we thouroughly enjoyed our two weeks on board there were a number of areas that we felt Princess needed to improve on, we have detailed these below for the benefit of people weighing up taking this cruise. Just to paint the picture we (a couple aged 29 and 32) are experienced travellers although this was only our second cruise, the previous one was with RCI. We visited 10 ports over the 14 days however I will only mention the ports where we booked tours.

Embarkation - chaos, althought to be fair to Princess this was more the fault of the port authorities/customs. Once we cleared this area we were promptly issued with our cards and were on board promptly. The que outside was approximately one hour long when we qued however this fluctuated throught the afternoon - the only water station was at the top of the que which made no sense at all.

Ship - while we had ready may comments about the ship being in poor condition we found no evidence of this. The staff were slow to clean the pool area and there were often tables with food etc left for too long but the interior was fine - no threadbare sheets or frayed carpets as others had mentioned. Read more