After reading some of the reviews on Pride of America, we approached our upcoming 7 night Hawaiian Island cruise with more than a little anxiety. I am delighted to say that this cruise far exceeded any expectations we had, and we would not hesitate to take this same trip again! From beginning to end, it was a pleasure.

We arrived in Honolulu a day early in order to go to Pearl Harbor. This is an experience not to be missed! We were picked up at 6:15 a.m. by our tour bus - which we booked independently from the cruise line - and were given a verbal tour of sites passed on the way to Pearl Harbor. Afterwards, on the way back to our hotel our bus driver showed us more sites and gave us some of the history of Oahu. The hotel stored our luggage while we were gone and called a taxi for us when we returned. Then we were off to the ship by 2 p.m. for hopefully an early check-in. We arrived shortly after 2 and were greeted by a wonderful staff who quickly signed us in and took our pictures for our ID cards. We were in our cabin by 2:30 and our luggage was at our door about an hour later. The embarkation staff has their act together!

Our cabin was small but very nice. We had a large picture window and a king sized bed. There were two upper berths that could have been used for a 3rd and 4th passengers. We enjoyed having a refrigerator for our personal items, and there were other amenities such as a safe, iron, ironing board, and hair dryer. Most of the cabins had coffee pots with Kona coffee; however, our coffee pot was missing. After asking for one a couple of times, the front desk apologized and offered to have room service bring coffee to us each morning. It arrived right on time each day. And, yes, the showers are very small, and the room has no wasted space, but it was decorated well, efficiently arranged and very comfortable. We had no complaints. Read more