Pacific Princess Review
March and April 2009 Amazon River Cruise Bird Watching Trip
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In March and April 2009 we spent 14 days on the Pacific Princess sailing across the Caribbean, down the East coast of South America, and up the Amazon River for 900 miles to Manaus, Brazil. We then backtracked for an additional 14 days to Ft Lauderdale, Florida.
We got a great rate by purchasing a round trip cruise from Ft Lauderdale. The round trip was cheaper than going one-way to Manaus, flying back to Ft Lauderdale, and staying somewhere in Florida for 14 nights (we travel all the time, so if we were not on the ship we would be staying somewhere else).
We are keen bird watchers and beach glass collectors. We selected this trip as a way of getting to some remote places we had not gone birding before.
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At 780 passengers, the Pacific Princess is smaller than other cruise ships we have been on, but actually not much different in terms of room size and ship layout, just fewer stairs to climb. We joined the private Spa and really enjoyed the enormous therapeutic hot tub and deck area in the front of the ship - all Non-Smoking!!!