I have to say that my me and my husband were extremely disappointed in our recent roundtrip cruise from Seattle to Junea, Skagway, Glacier Bay and Ketchikan, Vancouver Island and then back to Seattle. As Australians we have great distances to travel and we pay premium prices to do cruises and tours around the world; and our expectation is that we experience something that is special and relaxing and "come back new" as the Princess Cruises logo states. As a comparison, we paid the same amount of money to do a 13 night cruise as we did for this 7 night cruise. Same deck with balcony.

Our particular cruise was what I would call ordinary. This is my fifth cruise in total and my third with Princess Cruises. The previous two cruises I have done with Princess have both been spectacular!

On this cruise we were on the Aloha deck on the Port side. We sailed out of Seattle and initially the weather was sunny but cool, but as we headed up the Pacific Ocean it soon turned dark, foggy and rained all the way up to Juneau. So much for the balcony view. Read more