Coral Princess Review
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My husband and I just returned from a 13 day Cruisetour, JA6 7-night Voyage of the Glaciers Cruise with 6-night Land Tour featuring 2-nights Copper River Princess Lodge, 2-nights Denali Princess Lodge, 1-night Mt. McKinley Princess Lodge and 1-night Anchorage. I'll only cover the Cruise portion and will review the land portion on the message boards.
We sailed on July 27 and returned Monday, August 9. The weather was unusually warm this whole time, and we greatly benefitted from the extraordinary visibility. This was the vacation of a lifetime, and we returned rested and relaxed.
I should preface my comments by mentioning that my husband and I really needed a restful vacation, and we intentionally chose not to try to do too much in the ports. On previous cruises, we've returned exhausted, and we wanted to avoid that. Folks who try to fill every minute will think we missed some opportunities, and they're right. But we achieved our goal of seeing Alaska while returning rested, relaxed and refreshed.
Cabin Review
e were in Stateroom D305, which was on the Starboard side, right off the forward elevators. I was worried that it would be noisy, but aside from a couple of rowdy teenagers, it was not a problem. This ship is kind of strange in how the elevators are laid out. Almost every time we wanted to go somewhere, like the dining room, we had to change elevators. Oh, well.
Our room was SMALL. I had forgotten how small the balcony cabins on Princess are. On the Carnival ships, a comparable balcony stateroom has a small couch, comfortable to sit and read. There was no such place in this room. The bed was much too hard, even with a foam mattress pad. The bedding was tired the sheets washed too many times, the pillows were smashed and too hard, and, yes, the shower was lilliputian. This is made worse by the grab bar that protrudes 3" into the already inadequate space. It was difficult to take a shower without flooding the bathroom, though we learned the technique through trial and error. (Don't turn the water on full blast unless you need it briefly to rinse hair, be sure to keep the shower curtain hem inside the shower stall at all times.)