My wife and I were certainly looking forward to our Eastern Caribbean cruise aboard the latest addition to the Princess Fleet – the Royal Princess - which was to depart from Ft Lauderdale on 8th December 2013. Our son and his wife were to join us.

Having thoroughly enjoyed a previous cruise on board the Ruby Princess, we had no reason to doubt, that sailing on the 'Royal' after reading the masses of publicity surrounding it because the Duchess of Cambridge had 'swung the obligatory bottle of champagne'.

So how was it? Read more