Having cruised Sun Princess previously and enjoyed it immensely we decided on Star Princess for our Alaskan trip. The scenery was overwhelming and well worth seeing and we had several interesting optional trips but the ship did not fully meet the standards we expected. We are not over demanding cruisers but the whole purpose of Princess seemed to be to extract every cent possible at every opportunity possible.

Complaint number one was the half hour it took for the safety drill in the theatre and it was given with several unexplained delays. The speaker really spoke down to us eg " hand up all those from USA"

and "what do you think of our wonderful ship" etc when we just wanted to get back to unpack. Read more