Diamond Princess Review

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NB Voyage to the Glaciers Add-on to Vancouver trip

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bookmama22
2-5 Cruises • Age 70s

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Sail Date: Jun 2012

After a week in Vancouver that was combination business/vacation, we boarded the Diamond Princess. Embarkation was very easy and went smoothly. We located our room and set out to explore the ship. This was our third cruise and the primary reason for going was to see glaciers and southern Alaska and hopefully some wildlife, especially as an add-on to existing trip to Vancouver.

Ship was in very good shape, although it takes awhile to locate everywhere you need or want to go. Our cabin steward introduced himself and seemed very friendly and helpful (on previous HAL cruise we never met or saw our cabin steward). The only question that I asked him during the course of the cruise he could not answer however and so I did have to ask at the front desk.

Went up to deck for a quick lunch and to see Vancouver from ship. The pizza was terrible along with my husband's hotdog, so we decided to avoid those options for the rest of the cruise, only had salad from the buffet or grilled chicken at the hamburger/hot dog stand. It was raining pretty hard so we headed downstairs to await our luggage and unpack, had our muster drill, relaxed with a drink in our room and went for dinner. We had anytime dining which we really enjoyed although we tended to have dinner at 8 most nights and ended up in the Vivaldi, although we did visit all the other dining rooms. The food was fine, nothing amazing, nothing terrible, seemed to have enough options and we liked that waiter could take drink order as opposed to having a wine steward sent over. We ate breakfast every day in the main dining room, good options, nice to be served and met different people every day. First day at sea, the health club was mobbed and husband said he had to wait 30 minutes to use different equipment but it improved as the week went on.

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Cabin E

Our cabin was described as partially obstructed but it did not seem to have any obstruction. It was clean and similar to cabins on other ships. All the rooms on cruises are small but efficiently designed. Was disappointed that no daily news digest paper was provided as on previous cruises on Celebrity and HAL and resort hotels. Front desk seemed perplexed when I asked why not offered.

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