Regal Princess Review
minnesotasisu
First Time Cruiser • Age 60s
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Sail Date: Feb 2019
Cabin: Interior
With this being our first cruise we really had no idea what to expect. We did a bit of research and for some reason (luckily) we chose the Princess Cruise Line and the Regal Princess as our first cruise. We spoke to a LOT of people during the cruise about their cruising experiences to try to determine if we had made the right choice. After listening to countless stories about other cruise lines I feel we chose right for our first one. As one gentlemen said "You started with Princess, everything else is downhill from here". I think we tend to agree because before we left the ship we put a deposit down for a future cruise!
We found the passengers to be typically older (average age was probably 70). We are in our 60s and 50s so we were the youngsters on board. The ship doesn't have the water parks, climbing walls, slides, etc that a lot of other cruise ships have. Those activities attract a lot younger crowd, and you know what? That suited us just fine! While there were some families and young kids and teenagers around there weren't many. And when young kids were around you knew it. It was not as quiet and relaxing time when you had even a few kids running around you ankles. I could not imagine a more relaxing vacation than the one we had. 10-15 years ago it would have been fun to be on a ship with these waterparks but at our ages we just wouldn't use them so why have them around? Like bees to honey, they are made for a younger crowd.
Embarkation was seamless! There were 7 ships in port so traffic was a mess getting into the port. We stayed at a hotel about 15 minutes to the south and didn't leave there until around 1:00 or so. The shuttle driver (All-Star) said traffic was backed up a lot earlier during the day but when we arrived it had settled down. We didn't get to the cruise terminal until 1:30 or so (after dropping off passengers to all the other ships) we walked right through the terminal with no lines what so ever (Medallions helped... more on that later). The Princess greeting staff were awesome... the porters.. not so much (all they wanted was their tip).
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Interior
Cabin IB
We chose an interior cabin for our first cruise to save some money and also we thought the only time we probably would be in there would be to sleep. We were right! Cabin C203 on the Carbie Deck was an interior room that met our needs. The cabin was adjacent to an opening which I had read housed the stage handling equipment for the Princess Theater 3-4 levels below. Some people had said it could be noisy. We did hear some music when they were practicing one day but we were hardly every in the room when a show was going on so we didn't hear anything. We usually got back to our room between 11 and 1 am so the shows were done by then. We also wore ear plugs. The room had a VERY comfortable bed arranged as a queen size. Although dark at night we did bring a night light, but also left the TV on tuned to the ships front view cam so when we awoke we saw it was daylight outside and we could see where we were. Kind of like a window, right? Many people said we were smart to choose an interior cabin because once you have a balcony it is hard to go back. While it would be nice to have a balcony we wonder how much we would have used it. I think my wife and I would have loved to have a cup of coffee sitting out on a balcony in the morning but other than we were fine with our interior room and probably will do the same for our next cruise. The money we saved paid for our excursions.
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