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bribuzz83
2-5 Cruises • Age 40s

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Sail Date: Mar 2012
Cabin: Balcony

To start we've only sailed with Princess but they treat us right and we like the older crowd no children. We flew from Dallas to Santiago long flight but arrived in plenty of time to drive the hour and a half to the port. Wish we had more time in Santiago but next time, Chile also looks like a great place to just take a vacation.

Star Princess looks nice not any major changes from the Carribean basically the same layout, made it easy to find things. We had a balcony on the Emerald Deck, it's one of the covered balconies which offers more privacy.

First port was La Serena(Coquimbo), Chile we did the Winery and Petroglyphs, through Princess. I know a lot of people say don't do excursions through Princess but we always do and you hear why. The winery was wonderful very interesting good wine we got two tastings bought some bottles and had a good time. The petroglphs were ok thought they were going to be more but still good. After that we went to lunch, we were told it was empanadas but it ended up being chicken, beef, rice and a vegetable salad, with Pisco sours and wine. It was good and the servers we're really efficient and polite. The view from the restaurant was amazing exactly what you think Chile looks like. So on our way back to the ship, the drive was about an hour and a half each way, our brakes on the bus locked up so we had to pull over at a police station or something, the tour guide was great and called for another bus right away kept us informed. Long story short we sat by the side of the road for 45 min they got the bus limping along and we made it down the road to the next bus got back barely in time but since we were on a Princess excursion they waited for us.The second port was Lima(Callao),Peru we were suppose to be in port at 6am but there was major fog, so bad that the port was closed, the Captain was great and kept us informed and really pushed to get us in to port. It wasn't until 12:30 when we finally got to port. Princess had rescheduled all the excursions that were through them, another reason we were glad we had booked with Princess. We went to see the Pachacamac Ruins which we interesting, we were a little rushed because we had limited time, we were staying two hours later then we were suppose to but still rushed. Then we went to a hacienda for lunch and Peruvian Prancing horses which were so amazing the lunch was excellent with Pisco sours and wine again. Met some great people at lunch including Danielle who was the child care manager from the ship, she was so much fun. Princess did discount the excursion by $50 each.

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