The Elderly - Having spent most of our cruise life on Holland, we are familiar with the over 80 cruise scene. Usually, traveling with older folks is a great benefit - they don't bring little children who play "Marco Polo" all day, don't reserve deck chairs and don't get "rowdy" at night. This time however, it was all we could do not to get behind a slow moving scooter, wheelchair or walker. We had cruised Princess 2x before and had never experienced this issue.

The Staff - save our cabin steward Ariel - was HORRIBLE!!! Rude, abrupt, unhelpful, short tempered and did not seem to want to be there. In every conversation, each staff member told us the number of days until he/she could get out of his/her contract. In the Steakhouse, it took over 40 minutes to get our first course. During the meal, our waiter disappeared and we had to ask the Maitre D' for the check. When I described our displeasure in the service to him, his response was "No one wants to work on New Year's Eve." No apology, no recognition of poor performance.

The Food - YIKES!!! What happened to the quality of the food on Princess. Very few options and the Lido buffet at lunch was something out of summer camp - white Wonder bread sandwiches and assorted glop in casserole dishes - ick. Read more