Royal Princess Review
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Background
This was the ninth Princess cruise since our first one in 2008 for my partner and me, meaning we are Captain’s Circle Platinum members. We started cruising with Celebrity Cruises in 2014 and became Celebrity Elite members after just four cruises because some very good offers allowed us to book Suite Class on two occasions (no wonder Princess‘ on-board future cruise reservations can be handled by one person, while at Celebrity ships a whole team is busy with that). It was the second Princess cruise for my parents accompanying us (73 and almost 89). We choose this cruise because it suited their needs (mobility issues) as routing (no tendering) and season fitted them best.
Most of the negative aspects mentioned in the following text were not specific to Royal Princess but we experienced them on every Princess cruise we took so far.
Cabin Review
Mini-Suite with Balcony
Great in general: lots of storage space, huge balcony. The air condition was a major source of disturbance as it was far too loud during the day and became a roar for no explainable reason on some occasions, e. g. in the middle of the night. Other than that the sound insulation was far better than on Celebrity's Meyer Wharf built ships regarding noise from other cabins/decks. I can imagine these cabin getting very rocking when the weather gets rough as it already was shaky sometimes during calm seas.
Port Reviews
Florence (Livorno)
The shuttle (run by Port of Livorno) ran very infrequently and it took us one hour to get from the car rental parking just outside the port grounds back to the ship.