Star Princess Review
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We spent 2 days pre cruise in Seattle. Stayed at the Hampton Inn Downtown which I recommend as it was very clean with friendly and helpful employees. Side trips in Seattle, I recommend the Hirem Chittenden Locks, a lovely spot. Had lunch at the Sky City restaurant atop the Space Needle and the food was quite good. Don't waste your time with Pikes Place Market. Very crowded and unless you're buying food, nothing there.
Embarkation: We arrived at Pier 91 about 11:30. The lines moved slowly, but at least they moved and we were on the ship about 12:45. We asked what dining room was open for lunch and it was Portofino. Highly recommend doing lunch here on embarkation day. It was probably the best meal of the week and very few people were taking advantage of this dining option.
Star Princess is in good shape throughout. It was too cold on this voyage to take advantage of the pools or MUTS. We did have some issues in our cabin B711, the toilet water kept running and overflowed onto the bathroom floor twice. After a call to maintenance, it was fixed. Then we had a light in the bathroom start strobing and again had to call maintenance. Our cabin steward, Fidel, was ok but not outstanding.
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Balcony
Quiet location but quite far aft. Plus is that there were no other balconies looking down on us so it had privacy. We looked down on 3 more decks of balconies below us. Better to book a balcony on Caribe deck as these are much larger balconies, 1/2 covered and 1/2 uncovered. Would be nice if they made the closet area a little smaller and use that space in the bathroom. Toilet kept running (clean water) and overflowed onto the bathroom floor twice until maintenance was called to fix this. Also, water shot out of the facet towards the vanity mirror.