This cruise was our second Princess cruise, both aboard the SUN PRINCESS. Our first experience on the SUN was 7 years ago doing the panama canal and the services was the worst I had ever experienced after a total of some 20 cruise. Our recent experience aboard the SUN was outstanding! What an improvement!
Embarkation: Outstanding service and among the best ever of any cruise line, excluding the last minute Bahama immigration form and the Norwalk virus form.
Public rooms: This ship for an older ship is still among the nicest, the problem is smoking! If you don't smoke, this is not the ship for you! Celebrity really handles this the best with one side for smokers and one side for non-smokers. Princess thinks if they put up a sign on a table that says no smoking, then the table next to it won't feel the effects, the smoke was brutal. The ship was also very warm and the only cool spot on the ship was the disco. The smoke was not that bad there either. Go to the pizza parlor for dinner one night it was great!