I have never written a review before but here I go. I am a Platinum member working on getting to Elite. Normally I would have a 4 or 5 rating for Princess but this cruise I did have some disappointments. When I found this 10 day cruise I was excited because it had 6 ports. 3 of which I have been to and 3 where new ports. We stayed at the Hilton Marina the night before and that was OK. It was a very dated hotel but the price was not bad. It was across from the port so that made getting to the port easy. We have been cruising with Princess for a while now and this is the second sailing on this ship we have done. The ship is very well laid out and our favorite out of the fleet. We where in E325 which is an obstructed ocean view stateroom. I will tell you that I would book in a heart beat this room again. There was a life boat at the window, however you could see straight out to the ocean. You would not be able to see below you but who looks down anyhow. Great room. It also is a great deck because We were able to run down 2 decks for dinning or 1 deck for the theater, It was easier than getting an elevator. This cruise was for relaxation only. We chose not to do any excursion on this trip. We stayed on the ship for Princess Cays, St. Thomas and St. Maarten. We have been to these ports many times. We rented lounges in the Sanctuary for the entire cruise and that is where we parked during the morning hours. In the afternoon, we went to the Skywalker lounge. The ship is very well maintained. You can tell they keep it painted and cleaned. When sitting beside other ships, Princess looked so much better. I did not see a lot of improvements made to the ship during the dry dock. We sailed on it the week before it went into dry dock so I do have pictures of it before renovations. My guess is that outside the new dinning venues and new bedding, and some carpet, the updates where in technology.

Internet. Loyal passengers, Elite and Platinum really do not get the internet perk as before. Sure they will give you your minutes, but because they moved to Medallion Net, cruisers can purchase unlimited on the first day at a discounted rate. If you are Elite or Platinum you first have to waste the minutes allotted to you than you can purchase the package, but....You will pay the same price as a first time cruiser. They tried to say we where still getting the discount, but no we weren't, because if I had not had the minutes, I could have paid less per day for the package. We chose to just keep the minutes and use them sparingly. Any Platinum and Elite member on that cruise knows what I am talking about. Plus there was no log in and log out button, we actually had to go to a web browser and log in and than had to type signout.com to disconnect. If we did not do that, the minutes kept running and were wasted. Again, it was a poor set up for the loyal members, but Ruby and below didn't get that perk so they where able to purchase the internet unlimited for the whole cruise at 79 dollars.

2nd, the staff on the ship was not the same as typical princess cruise staff. We only had 3 staff that was friendly to us. Yitzak, buffett Steward, Christain and Kemberly in Island dinning room, thank you for serving us. Read more