We just returned from our trip on the Grand Princess (11/18/01) and had a wonderful time! On the trip there was myself, my daughter (8), my sister, her daughter (5), my parents, brother, aunt and cousin.

I have previously been on Carnival (once) and Royal Caribbean (4 times). My parents and my aunt and cousin had been on several cruises before, including different Princess ships. It seems to me that if you have been on other Princess ships, you will be disappointed in the Grand. If you have never sailed on Princess, you will be impressed - at least that is how it worked with our group.

My parents and aunt were very, very disappointed with the size of the cabin and the amount of storage space - they both had much larger cabins on the previous Princess cruises. On the other hand, I thought that the cabin (a standard inside cabin) was fine. I really liked the safe (you enter your own pass code to get in - prior to the cruise I had thought that the cabin card would be how you got into the safe), and I loved the little refrigerator. There were four of us in the room - my sister and our 2 children and I didn't feel we were too cramped and that there were enough storage. We unpacked everything and kept our suitcases under the bed. Read more