After reading so many mixed reviews on here I headed on to the ship with some trepidation, but it was a good experience. This is my second Princess cruise so I already knew enough to know not to expect the level of service that you'd receive on Disney, Celebrity or the higher end lines. Even still we had a fabulous cabin steward, John, who was incredibly friendly and a great waiter in the Palm dining room, Michael from the Philippines, who was incredibly helpful, funny and great at anticipating our needs. The other areas of the ship delivered the reasonable service level I expect from a mid-price line like Princess.

As many reviews state, the ship has signs of her age here and there but nothing egregious that I saw. There always seemed to be small puddles of water on the upper decks, sometimes large puddles after it rained that made it hard to navigate without getting your shoes wet. We also found the layout of the ship very counter-intuitive and the signage significantly lacking, even on Princess Cays which tells me it's probably a company-wide thing. But if you keep your handy little ship map with you and look for deck signs with listings of what is on each deck, you'll be fine.

The Princess Patter is a nice thing to have but if you have a mobile device (tablet/phone) you can hop on to the ship's wifi for free and use it to navigate to caribbean.princess.com and you'll have the ship information with event listings, venue hours, shipboard account info, etc at your fingertips and you don't have to pay for internet to use it. Read more