The time fit our schedule. We had our teen grandsons with us. We are Elite and our grandsons are Platinum. While I have never had a bad Princess cruise, this one disappointed me in several ways.

Itinerary: Squeezing a ten-day cruise into seven days obviously requires some sacrifices. Here it was Tracy Arm AND Juneau on the same day. There was not enough time to enjoy both fully. The late night stop at Victoria was also troubling. There's not much to do or see in the town late at night. I knew the itinerary before we sailed, of course, but I didn't fully appreciate how rushed we would feel.

Disembarkation in port: There was never adequate signage telling where the gangway was. At one stop, we were directed by a staff member (in officer clothes) to go up a deck to get off. When we did, the rather rude security person told us we had to go back down to the deck we had just left. When I told him we had been directed there, he snapped back that "there are signs all over that deck." There were no signs. I never encounter rude staff on a Princess ship, so this surprised me. Read more