Having never written a review before, I hope this will be acceptable. I will try to address the areas that I know I asked many questions of, with any further salient points!
Embarkation at Southampton was smooth, easy and fast! We arrived mid-way between the two suggested times given to our party by Princess (we were on two different decks and thus had two hours between times, although we travelled together.). There was no issue at all, and we were on board by mid-day, with the minimum of fuss. The only oddity was that my name had apparently not been entered online, prior to departure. Odd because it had been me that booked the whole trip, me that had filled in all the on-line info, and I had also been able to print boarding passes and tags with no issue!! Anyhow, it was soon sorted, and off we went!
We had an inside cabin for our family of four, mainly because we prefer to spend our time outside of the room , and have the money thus saved to spend elsewhere. The room was clean and functional with no obvious faults. (One point, I had received advice to leave the tv on with the webcam channel, overnight. This allowed us to know when it was morning and allowed some semblance of the outside in!)
Plaza Deck, inside cabin Room 244. Midships, same level as Piazza, very little motion experienced here, no noise disturbance at all. Cabin was small (as expected), two single beds with two bunks over the top. For four, storage space was almost impossible to manage, kept a lot of items in the suitcases. (Empty suitcase never removed, taking wardrobe space. ) Sister on Caribe deck in similar size room had case removed,which opened up space well.)Spotlessly clean, shower slightly damaged (small cracks in surround) Toilet stopped working during trip as did door lock, however both were fixed promptly,