Coral Princess Review

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Unhappy with Coral Princess

Review for the Panama Canal & Central America Cruise on Coral Princess
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LJ Pia
10+ Cruises • Age 80s

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Sail Date: Sep 2012
Cabin: Balcony

The Coral Princess is a nice enough ship - smaller, which I like. For my age I don't need rock climbing, ice skating, etc. I want a relaxing comfortable cruise.

This was not what I wanted nor what I expected. Right away it was hot all over the ship. Granted Los Angeles was hot that day and our cabin was in the sun, but it didn't cool down so I called A/C engineering to check it. It was adjusted and was much better. (But as the cruise continued, the A/C was still "spotty" around the ship, i.e., one elevator very warm, others comfortable; some areas of ship very warm, others more comfortable; cabin sometimes not very cool and had to call A/C engineering twice more.) Now it wasn't as if we would be traveling to the North Pole; we were headed for the tropics! So it would make sense, at least to me, that the ship would be prepared for very hot and very humid temperatures and in accordance with that keep the ship very cool. But No-No that was not the case.

Also the water in the cabin was never cool--impossible to get a cool shower after being out on a shore excursion. This area of the world, being so near the Equator, tends to be very hot and very humid! In Fact I had read the Cartagena is so hot and humid that many reviewers could enjoy any shore excursions, so we cancelled that one.

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Balcony

Cabin BE

Cabin B 734 is aft next to stern and was adequate for two people. Balcony very small. Storage space good; shower extremely tiny. Nice feature: Door to large stern open public balcony right outside our cabin entrance. Good pictures of sunsets and clouds taken from there. Would choose this cabin again.

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