Golden Princess Review
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Myself and two friends (also newbies) just finished a four day re-positioning cruise Melbourne to Auckland.
EMBARKATION
Embarkation went very smoothly and we were on board pretty quickly. The only issue we had was one Princess Cruises staff member saw our blue cards (newbies) and told us to take a seat and wait to board. He failed to see we were staying in a suite and were entitled to priority boarding. However, we asked the lady sitting next to us if she had priority boarding and she said no, so we promptly got up and when through immigration and were on-board in no time.
Cabin Review
Premium Suite with Balcony
Stayed in Grenada suite on Sun Deck 15 S707 twin beds and fold-away couch.
The suite was beautiful - with a lot of the finishes in elegant wood grain throughout and marble floors and counters in the bathroom.
The beds were brand new but my two friends like soft beds and found them to be a little bit too hard, so they asked for a mattress topper to be put on and they found the beds super comfortable after that. I slept on the fold-away bed and I was sooooo comfortable. I prefer a firm mattress so this suited me well. It was probably the most comfortable fold-away bed I have ever slept on.
The suite had everything we needed and it was nice to have space to move around. Our sailing experienced very bad weather throughout the entire journey so were virtually unable to use the balcony at all, which was disappointing as the balcony is a good size and it would have doubled our 'living' space.