We were met at Venice airport and shown to our coach then taken to the Pier. Queues moved quite smoothly and told to sit and wait for embarkation which took about 1 1/2 hours. Eventually our numbers were called and off we went - the ship is huge and like most others we got lost several times. Cases were delivered to our cabin after a couple of hours and our cabin steward came to introduce himself to us. A very nice young man who was always helpful and pleasant as were all the staff and none of them would pass you without saying hello. We went on all the trips and we had to gather at our designated places on board, these went very smoothly and can't fault any of the trips, although hurried sometimes but found this was necessary for good timekeeping. After all most of the trips were tasters for future visits. We cannot praise the food, shows and everything on board enough. So I will comment on disembarkation.We had to get our cases outside our cabins before 9pm and there are so many restrictions on what you can carry on as hand luggage on a flight, this was difficult. All our toiletries had to be packed the night before etc. We had to be down in our designated areas by 7.45am and this went smoothly. Once off the ship and at the port we had to find our cases and get them to the coach we were to travel on. Things were a bit messy here and we feel this can be improved upon. We were given a sticker with our trip number, as we had been before, but unfortunately the coach we needed did not have this number on, so we had no idea which coach to get on. We did a trip around Barcelona so put them on the appropriate coach eventually. At this point I would advise putting plenty of home address labels on to your cases as some had come off ours. After our trip around Barcelona we were taken to the airport and found the desk. This is a huge airport and we the staff there to be most unfriendly. We did not hear our announcement and found out by watching others on our flight who found out from somewhere what was happening. We flew with Titan airways and there was extra leg room and the meals were excellent. We would certainly cruise with Princess again as we found it to be 5 star.