Caribbean Princess Review

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Review for the Eastern Caribbean Cruise on Caribbean Princess
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HighDesert34
First Time Cruiser • Age 60s

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Sail Date: Jul 2014

I had never been interested in going on a cruise. I was turned off by the idea of large numbers of people crowded together in such close proximity and the lack of amenities found at large destination resorts. Then as I read up (on this site) about cruise vacations I became more interested.

Less than a month ago I had no plans to go on this cruise (or any other). My wife and I were looking at vacation options for us our 2 young daughters and her parents. We were thinking about maybe going to Cancun, Hawaii or some similar destination. We were utilizing the Costco travel website and on a whim decided to check out some of the cruises. This particular cruise had no price advertisement so my wife decided to call and we were told that a "Flash Promotion" was being offered on this trip (need to fill up cabins?) and I was floored when we were offered a priced at about half of what we had seen advertised for other 7 day cruise. We were told it was a non refundable price and they would only hold it a short time if we wanted it. We decided that we did and immediately booked 2 adjacent Mini Suites on the "Dolphin Deck". In addition to the great price Costco Travel & Princess gave us $250.00 Ship Credit for each Suite. I was concerned that maybe this was an older ship that was not as popular but after reading up on the "Caribbean Princess" I found it had mostly positive reviews.

With the savings we made on the cruise we decided to go to Orlando the week week before and stayed at a great Universal Resort and spent 5 days at the parks before heading down to Ft. lauderdale so it really became a 2 week vacation for the price of one.

Cabin Review

Great suite, lots of room! We had 2 adjoining and so had twice the balcony space with the door open between them.

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