Diamond Princess Review
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27 Day Japan based itinerary 5/20/14
The Diamond Princess has just come out of a refurb to not only update its interior but to add many Japanese oriented features. Our cruise although listed as a 27 dayer, was actually three 9 day cruises done back to back. About 500 hundred passengers joined us on this complete itinerary while others were on for 1 or 2 of the legs.
After reading some the earlier reviews of the Diamond since its refurb in Singapore, we had some trepidation about how we would like the ship and its new itineraries. We are Elite passengers on Princess so we have cruised many times with this line and have enjoy their ships.
Cabin Review
Cabins are pretty standard for Princess, but they have upgraded the TV system in all cabins. Each now has a 40” LCD TV (huge) with digital channels most in standard definition. The channel selection was not to our liking and limited. The only American channels was CNBC (24/7) and ESPN. Two of the eight channels were Japanese. I was pleased that these new TVs had HDMI inputs (for watching computer based movies on the big screen) however, there was NO input selector or any means of switching to another video source. These were Samsung TVs with several inputs available, but the remote control was very specialized for this on demand system. The on demand system did provide quite a selection of free feature films, but our favorite tradition of watching the Love Boat while cruising on Princess is no longer an option.