Ruby Princess Review
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For the past several years, we've opted to cruise for New Year's. Usually it's been a 3 to 4 night cruise, this time we opted for 7 days. Although it was a great getaway, I have a few comments to share if you plan to go next year to be aware of.
Let me start by saying, I have 2 sons, so it's not that I don't like kids, I just don't like spoiled rotten kids. I like Princess because it's usually a cruise line with mostly adult travelers and even when there have been children, it's usually not a problem. This time around, we were not happy with the amount of children running around EVERYWHERE. What do I mean by everywhere, I am referring to kids going to the middle of stage during performances at the clubs. Parents just did nothing to prevent this from happening. This happened a couple of times and then during the production shows the kids were just plain obnoxious and the parents thought their behavior was funny! Did this spoil our week, absolutely not, but it did disappoint me to see parents being so unconcerned of others. Therefore, if you are going during vacation times: Spring Break, Summer, Christmas or New Years, know you will definitely have more kids than usual.
Now to Ruby Princess -- the service level has decreased a little in the Restaurant, although the cabin steward and others were great. We were in the Botticelli Restaurant and we had to wait for services that are usually pretty standard, like refilling your water glass. The food was very good and there is really no need to pay for the specialty restaurants.
Cabin Review
We stayed at the Baja Deck 11 in Cabin 726. The balcony is nice and it is private but can be opened to share with the cabin on your side. I like this floor because no one can look down into your balcony but you can look down at the ones in the floors below, which really is uncomfortable if you like to sit in your robe in the balcony. The closet is average, nothing great but good for a week. The bathroom is SUPER SMALL, a small shower and everything very compact. Even numbers are "port" side. Although the Aloha deck is the 12th floor, we were afraid that we would hear the chairs from above. The restaurants were on the bottom floor 6, and you couldn't go through them. We were at the back of the ship, but close enough to the elevator and went straight down to our restaurant, which was the Botticelli