This was a 10 day cruise from SF to Cabo, despite it showing as a cancelled 15 day Hawaiian. Service was good with staff being attentive and up to Princess standards. There were only 670 passengers out of full 3000 capacity. Princess older fleet starting to show its age and Ruby is not exception.

The outer haul and some other outdoor areas, including balconies are full of rust, despite just recently being completely repainted. Missing light fixtures and bulbs, worn out furniture, laminated table numbers in dining rooms, instead of metal ones, single use (trash) plastic bags as a hair cape in spa, instead of usual nylon ones and list goes on. Buffet food was a major disappointment. Lounge background music was the same boring track ever since the ship was built (2008). Sometimes there would be no (dated) music playing at all. Making it feel like being in a ghost town, that on a fun cruise.

Because of reduced passenger capacity some venues were closed for an entire duration of the cruise. Lotus pool, the only heated one, was closed for the first 5 days. They only filled it up for two days before shutting down again due to stormy conditions for remaining portion of the cruise. Entertainment was really disappointing and awkwardly bad. Read more