We did back to back sailings on the Grand in April/May -- an 11 day Canary Islands and a 17 day Mediterranean & Adriatic. This review covers the Mediterranean & Adriatic cruise. This was our 56th cruise on Princess, and 13th on the Grand. Overall it was a very good cruise although it started with an "issue."

Embarkation

This was the second of our b2b sailings this time on the Grand so no embarkation was involved, we were just told to meet at Alfredo's at 9:45 am to get new pictures taken for our new cruise cards. So we were there at 9:45 am but nothing happened until about 10:30 am when they showed up to take our pictures. Read more