We've previously cruised on HAL, NCL and Costa with Princess being our 12th cruise each. We chose this Ruby Princess cruise specifically because it departed from the Port of Galveston and visited ports we visited years ago and were curious how they'd changed.

Booking

I booked online directly about 90 days before cruise on Princess site, no agent. It was my first Princess Cruise, my husband’s second. I got a call later from Princess CVP and I asked him about the new “bid for upgrade”, he seemed unaware. In his defense, this is something they had just implemented a few weeks before we booked. We did finally get the email that we were eligible to bid for an upgrade, but opted not to do so as we got a free upgrade by 1 category from a Balcony room Forward to Balcony Mid-Forward just down the hall. I don’t usually buy insurance, but since it was in January and weather was a possibility, I opted to do so. Read more