We are professionals in our mid-50s; I have sailed 10 cruises; hubby 5 cruises. This is our second PRINCESS cruise. Last cruise was November 2009 with PRINCESS. We booked our own airfare and embarkation hotel, but used a TA for the Princess booking, which was completed August 24th.

Our jobs require us to travel worldwide frequently (more than 2 weeks a month), so we book a cruise vacation for pure R&R and to spend time together after hectic work schedules!

This is the first time we cruised over a holiday period, so we were a bit skeptical that the ship would be overrun by celebrating kids, but were pleasantly surprised that we hardly noticed the 400 kids aboard. We felt the on-board kids' camp cruise staffers were priceless for all their efforts! We would definitely select to cruise again during the holidays. Read more