First off, this was my 11th cruise overall and second with Princess. My wife and I took a partial Panama Canal cruise on the Coral Princess in 2010. This was her 10th cruise and my 11-year-old daughter’s fourth cruise (first on Princess). We decided on a Mexican Riviera cruise because it offered us a chance to see some of my wife’s family in Orange County and my father in San Diego after the seven-day cruise.

We also managed to get four of my wife’s friends to join us, two of whom had never been on a cruise before. Her other two female friends had only cruised once before and one had only been on a three-night excursion to Ensenada and Catalina Island. Those two booked a week before our scheduled departure.

After sailing on RCL, Norwegian and Carnival, I would definitely say Princess has the best food. Some might disagree, but I have not had a bad meal aboard a Princess ship. Read more