I am a young adult and I enjoy traveling with my parents when I have the chance. I live in Germany and had been wanting to do a Baltic cruise for quite awhile. We booked our trip on the Royal Princess for August 2014 and had a fantastic time. We chose the Royal Princess because it gave us the ability to board at the Berlin stop. The actual port is three hours from Berlin and called Warnemunde. My ...

August/September 2014 Berlin and Royal Princess Cruise: Baltic’s and Transatlantic Part 1: Berlin and Royal Princess Baltic’s Cruise 8/23-9/2/2014 Pre Cruise time in Berlin We had a delightful 10 day stay in Berlin before we got on a cruise ship for the Baltic’s and Transatlantic cruise back to NYC. We really enjoyed Berlin and it was probably the highlight of the vacation. We stayed in Berlin ...

Royal Baltics and Transatlantic 9/2/14-9/27/14 Embarkation We got on the ship quickly with plenty of time to settle in and explore before muster. The ship was the same as it had been last year when we spent a month on it; large and laid out well but still lacking a full promenade deck outside. We went to trivia and quickly found some partners who were good, although Ken was the star player. We ...

The ship has its good points; we enjoyed the food, the entertainment and facilities. The service was very hit & miss aside from our cabin steward who was excellent. The passenger services desk is a fiasco, they don't answer their phones and as you get towards the front of a great long line they tell 'elite' passengers to cut in front of you. Given that people are generally in the line to sort out ...

Right away we were impressed by the size and beauty of the new Royal Princess ship. (We sailed on the last Royal in 2009.) This ship was inaugurated in June 2013 and our voyage was her first visit to the Baltic Sea. She dwarfs many of the other Princess ships with her impressive 19 decks and 3,500 passengers. We were looking forward to exploring all the features we had read about on this new ship, ...