Regal Princess Review
Great time on the Regal Princess over Thanksgiving week
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Just back from a week on the Regal Princess over Thanksgiving week. I rely quite a bit on reviews and tips from cruise critic - so please feel free to email me if you have specific questions, and I will try to offer my take on it - email : murrayfamnc@aol.com
I traveled with my husband and 15 year old son.
Pre Cruise: We stayed overnight at the Ft.Lauderdale Beach Hilton Resort- and parked our car for $38 during the cruise at the Embassy Suites on SE 17th- through United Parking online (found information on CC). We decided to head to the ship shortly after noon - big mistake- with 6 ships in port, what is really only about 2 miles took almost 45 minutes! Consider going earlier, 10:45 ish - which we usually do, with no traffic issues, or go after 1:30pm. What a waste of time - people actually got out of taxis and walked to their terminal quicker than some of us in traffic!
Cabin Review
Mini-Suite with Balcony
We booked a mini-suite forward - Cabin M208 - port side. Loved it. Spacious - the sofa bed stays within the footprint of the sofa (think a long 3 cushioned sofa) - somehow the bed appears and the cushions fold under - and not one inch extra space is utilized! Makes for a lot more room in the cabin. Plenty of storage, large dresser area, plenty of lighting, closet space is more than adequate, I bet we had 20 wooden hangars, safe, hair dryer, mini fridge, two outlets in the room and one in bathroom, good size bathtub, nice big square deep sink, hand soaps, lotions, body gel dispenser, shampoo/conditioner dispenser, and plenty of storage in bathroom. Temperature was easily adjusted and worked fine. The balcony is smaller than usual, no getting around this fact - two chairs with adjustable backs, one footstool, and an enormous round table…. table is very big for space. We enjoyed sitting on the balcony quite a bit - just angled the chairs and shared the footstool, no problems. You do need a room card of some sort to keep the lights on. Steward (James) did a great job keeping room cleaned and serviced. No complaints at all ! It was forward and we did have two mildly rough nights at sea- however we were lulled to sleep by the movement.