My wife and I are long time cruisers. We have reached Elite status on Princess. The pre-cruise extension to Xian was booked with Princess because we expected a first class experience.
The hotel in Beijing was the Great Wall .Marriott. How about black mold in the showers! How about tour guides in Xian changing the itinerary so they could take us to a souvenir store instead of sticking to the original agenda! For what Princess charges we should have had the best and instead we had the worst.
The cruise itself was just okay. The Princess menu keeps going downhill as does the food. The captain did a great job keeping us out of a hurricane, but the two ports that they used to substitute for Nagasaki and Shanghai were only fair. If those two ports in Taiwan were on the original itinerary we would never had booked the cruise.
The cabin was fine. No issues with location or cabin service.