We're Rookie Cruisers and always wanted to see Russia, plus my wife has Norway relatives so the Baltic Cruise fit our needs and wants.
Arrival/Embarkation - Tropical Storm Hanna delayed our connecting flight in Newark NJ and we just made it for our SAS flight, but our bags didn't make it to Copenhagen. Thanks to reading these blogs, we weren't that surprised and since we connected through ...
We are a couple in the early 40s, this was our 5th cruise (plus a river cruise on the Yangtze in China)
Arrived in Copenhagen in the morning, used the train to the main railway station (easy 15 minute trip for 30 DKK, every few minutes a train) and took a taxi to the pier from there for 130 DKK. Put our luggage in the lockers at the train station for 40 DKK in between to walk around in the city ...
Our Baltic cruise was from August 18 - 28, 2008, and we traveled from Washington, DC (Dulles Airport) to our Port of Embarkation, Copenhagen
We chose Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) from Dulles. There was an early afternoon flight that departed at 5:15 PM August 17 and arrived in Copenhagen around 7:15 AM the next morning. SAS uses an Airbus A330-300 for this route. This is a comfortable ...
This review covers the Crown Princess Scandinavia/Russia/'Berlin' cruise from 8/8/08 to 8/18/08. After being a CruiseCritic.com junkie for months prior to this sailing, I am glad to have the opportunity to contribute my own opinion.
Travel to port of embarkation: The biggest difficulty I had on this whole trip was the travel to and from the ship. Once aboard everything was worry free. I arrived ...
My family (me, my husband and 17 year old son) joined our neighbors (husband, wife, 15 year old boy and 10 year old girl) on a cruise to the Baltic. They were first time cruisers, and were excited to participate after our glowing reports of cruising to the Mediterranean on the Emerald Princess in 2007. The trip started in Copenhagen and ended in Copenhagen.
Our friends arrived in Copenhagen 2 ...
My husband and I just returned from a 10-day cruise to Russia and Scandinavia with Oslo aboard the Crown Princess. What an adventure! We departed from Los Angeles on July 7th for Seattle, where we met our connecting flight to Copenhagen. Our United flight out of LA was delayed two hours and we barely made our connection. After arriving in Copenhagen via SAS airline (which was very nice, especially ...
Pre Cruise--Flew to Copenhagen 2 days ahead and stayed at Marriott booked on Priceline. The hotel was thankfully air conditioned as we hit a heat wave. We flew Burbank/Seattle/Copenhagen and made our connections as did our luggage. We took a cab to the hotel since we were tired and had 2 25 inch suitcases and 2 carry on pieces. We were able to see all the sites on foot. We took the canal tour, ...
This review is written from the perspective of the independent traveler, and for those with particular interest in Jewish Heritage sites.
Comments on the Crown Princess: -Most everything was great. -Good use of our balconies, as our weather was surprisingly beautiful. Watched many sails in and away from the balcony -No alarm clock in cabin, and wake up calls were unreliable. -Had traditional ...
We selected Crown Princess because of the ten-day itinerary from Copenhagen and also because many friends had told us that Princess was a wonderful cruise line and we should try it.This was our fourth cruise, the previous three fantastic cruises being with NCL. The price was more expensive for an equivalent room on NCL so I guess I had higher expectations from Princess from the beginning. ...
Dear Fellow Cruising Friends,
This is the story of our June 18-29, 2008, Crown Princess Cruise to the Baltic's -- Cabin # E 717.
We booked this cruise, (our 23rd) more than a year ago with our master cruise counselor who once again found us the best vacation ever! My husband is from Swedish ancestry and I am from Polish Ancestry. It was a great opportunity to actually see the countries that ...