Pacific Princess Review
Transatlantic Renaissance Cruise on the Pacific Princess
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We sailed on what was touted as the Renaissance Cruise, and true to form we visited many ports that brought the Renaissance to life. The Pacific Princess is a beautiful ship, and it is getting that well loved look. Things like the chunk of plastic missing from the sink, and the way the toilet flushed so tentatively, this ship does need some updating! It's still a great ship, just getting a little worn. I was in the room next door to the one I spend 28 days in last year and I had the same steward Victor, apparently he never changes ships. Lucky for me, he was very good and I was happy to see him again. I was in room 6072.
The cruise staff was all nice and mostly consisted of the 6 new dancers on the ship. They did a great job of managing the trivia mobs, there were very few trivia uprisings, and I only had one episode of trivia turrets! LOL The CD was OK, but we asked for more games and did not get many, so the nights were kind of boring. We had several shows, all repeats for many of us and most well attended in spite of that. The entertainment was OK but there was not enough to do at night on the ship. It was dead almost every night by 10! Ok by us, we were exhausted from visiting many ports, this was a very active itinerary, and we are not exactly late night partiers!
Our favorite staff member was David Crathorne, the master of the Princess Choir, and Piano Playing/Singing Entertainer Extraordinaire. Everybody loved David, when we played music/Broadway trivia with him he made us grade our own papers and guess what? Nobody cheated. It felt so grown up! He was our Choir coach and director, and he made all of us non-singers very comfortable and confident. He held sing-along's which were so much fun, the whole ship was singing Broadway. He was the best. He is on vacation now but will be back on the Pacific for the whole World Cruise, lucky people! After that he will be on the Sun Princess doing another World Cruise! I am busy trying to figure out how to get on one segment of any of those world cruises, just to see David.
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Good room with a great steward Victor, some wear and tear showing but nothing more than cosmetic stuff and just a little of that. Perfect location on the ship, 1 floor down to MDR, 3 up to Buffet!