By way of background, my wife and I are in our mid-fifties, are busy professionals, who take three to four cruises per year and are Elite with Princess. We center our attention on relaxation and we love our leisurely dinners on board, both casual as well as the formal evenings. This cruise we sailed with another couple who we met on another cruise and this was our fourth cruise together. We have also been to Hawaii over twenty times so we don’t do many of the normal tourist activities.

One other thing many reviews cover is the condition of a ship - rust, varnish off of railings, etc. One thing we learned many years ago is that ships continually get rusty, and varnish is affected by the salt, etc. What we do see is that Princess continually paints, varnishes, etc to keep the ships in great shape. Conversely, where we saw something that was out of sorts that shouldn’t be, we reviewed it.

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