Princess Bangkok (Laem Chabang) Cruise Reviews

Please enter your review. I have to agree with the review by Victor Meldrew. I am Canadian and travelled on this same cruise with my husband. We stayed precruise(booked through Princess) in Bangkok at the ShangriLa, where we have previously stayed. Our stay was marred by the horrific flight we had courtesy of Princess with a 7 hour layover in Hong Kong having flown approx. 18 hours from Toronto ...

Booked the cruise in September 06, three months before flight schedules came out in January 07 - despite asking for World Traveller Plus seating on BA direct flights, were given Cathay Pacific via Hong Kong (as were quite a number of early booking passengers we talked to). Would this have something to do with it being cheaper to fly indirect? The Sapphire Princess is a very large and beautiful ...

This was our tenth cruise and our second one on the Sapphire Princess. We sailed on this ship when it was new in 2004 and enjoyed it very much so we were interested in doing this longer cruise over the Christmas and New Year holidays. My husband and I are in our sixties and live on the Gold Coast in Queensland Australia. We usually have long flights to join cruises in Europe and the US but ...

We began our long flight on Thursday morning, November 9, 2006 from Indianapolis, Indiana, flying through Chicago, then to Tokyo, then onto Bangkok, Thailand. We were lucky enough to have business class air on American Airlines for the 15 hour flight from Chicago to Bangkok. It was wonderful. American Airlines treated us very well and we were rested and relaxed when we got to Tokyo. We then ...

Sapphire Princess, Bangkok to Beijing, 26 Mar - 11 Apr 2005. To open, my advice to everyone is to use this resource (Cruise Critic) as much as possible, in particular the roll calls. For a first time Princess cruiser we found this forum invaluable for picking up tips and meeting fellow cruisers prior to departure. On board there are your standard set of serial whingers, the ones that complain ...

We have just returned from a Sapphire Princess Bangkok to Beijing cruise. We enjoyed the cruise but feel that we prefer a smaller ship - distance around the ship is vast and there is the inconvenience of having to go forward for most of the restaurants, atrium etc. We had an aft cabin and this did necessitate long walks through the ship. The waiting service on the ship is excellent and could not ...

Sapphire Princess—March 26 for 16 days—Bangkok to Beijing, otherwise labeled Laem Chabang to Xingang. Summary: The Sapphire Princess is too big for this itinerary, put your time and money to better use. We'll definitely take the size of the ship into consideration for future cruises. Why? (1) shorter port times for you because of long, tiring transportation times to the sights, and (2) docking ...