This was the first time we’ve cruised with Princess as we’re a fan of NCL. So, I was quite hesitant after reading all the negative reviews. However, we liked the itinerary and figured it was worth a try at least once.
Stateroom - We were on board by 1pm and our stateroom was ready. We had a forward balcony stateroom on the Caribe deck and it was quite nice. I liked that the ...
This was our 9th cruise on Princess, and 12th overall.
We were going to be home alone at Christmas and decided to go on a cruise instead. We'd been to the Caribbean several times before, but not to the Canal. We selected this particular ship because of design details (see below) and prior experience with Princess.
I had been interested in traveling on this ship or its sister (Island ...
3 generations of our family travelled together on the Coral Princess for Christmas, Grandparents (70s), Parents (50s) and kids (20s). We have been travelling on cruises all together for the past 15 years and have been on more than 20 cruises.
We loved the Panama Canal Cruise. We had been before when the kids were much younger so we wanted to go again. The Coral Princess was a very nice ship ...
This was our second cruise on the Coral Princess. Our first experience was cruising Alaska on the same ship. For this cruise the ship was quite fully booked, with many families and children aboard for the holidays. The ship was festively decorated and immaculately clean. We departed from Port Everglades in Ft Lauderdale. There were eight ships and 23,000 people leaving port that day! Once Princess ...
Our prior experience with Princess has been on one Alaska cruise and two 28 day repositioning cruises - one across the Pacific and one across the Atlantic. In fact our Alaska cruise was on this same ship - the Coral Princess. It was about 10 years ago and I believe the ship is showing some of it's wear and tear now. Overall the staff, especially the room steward and servers, were most ...
We chose this cruise for several reasons. First of course, the visit to the Panama Canal which was nearing the top of our bucket list. Secondly, we wanted to travel on another Princess ship after having such a great Alaskan cruise. This cruise aboard the Coral Princess was just the ticket. We flew in from Colorado a day early and had a transfer from the Ft. Lauderdale airport (a rather nasty ...
Our travel agency recommended your cruise line to us.
We brought our own wine and they kept loosing it; insisting that we already drank it, however they eventually found it.
We found the 10% surcharge on your wines much too expensive, given that you had already marked up the price of the wines quite a bit.
The markup on bottles of water as we disembarked from the ship was too ...
We had a problem with our room location and the staff changed our cabin for us. We had a fabulous dinner in the Bayou Cafe, one of the specialty restaurants the filet mingnon was delicious. The only issue was that their are lines for the "anytime" dining. The first night we were on line for over an hour. The hostess was fabulous but we did have to wait to get in every night. The crew shows ...
This was our first cruise with Princess and our first cruise over 7 days in length. We found Princess to be gracious and comfortable.
The embarkation at Port Everglades was quick and efficient.
The days at sea were relaxing and ports were interesting to us for the most part. We chose a partial transit of the Panama Canal because the extra days of the full transit would not fit in our ...
We chose this Panama Canal cruise because it started and ended in the same port, Ft. Lauderdale. All of the ports on this itinerary were new to us, a great adventure.
Embarkation was fine, we were even on the ship in advance of our anticipated boarding time. The disembarkation was terrific because we chose to use EZ Check that took our bags from outside our stateroom and delivered them to ...