This was our fifth cruise after two South Pacific cruises on the Superstar Leo, a Mediterranean cruise on the Diamond Princess and an Alaskan Cruise on the Sun Princess (and my first review on cruise critic).

The Ship

The Volendam is quite a bit smaller and older than the newer Princess mega-ships. In general the finishings were not as nice as we had previously experienced - more like a 3.5 to 4 star hotel than the 5 star luxury we had previously experienced. Certainly no areas to make you go "wow". But it was all perfectly acceptable and wouldn't describe it as tired. Fresh flowers appeared every single day all around the ship and gave it a fresh, friendly, feel. Read more