Let me preface this by saying that I've been on 14 cruises over the past 20 years and never felt the need to write a review, but the Sky Princess cruise of Norway from Jun 11 - Jun 25 was such a special kind of FUBAR that I couldn't let it pass.
If I'm being honest, this isn't totally a rip on the Princess cruise line because many of the aspects like poor weather, mechanical issues, and acts ...
It promised to be a memorable cruise, and Norway didn’t disappoint at all. The slightly damp air was no problem, adding to the pure freshness of the air. On the sixth day I went down with covid and the following morning was isolated after a positive test and remained in isolation until the end of the voyage – it wasn’t seriously bad just a fever but disabling nonetheless. So a few words of what it ...
The specialty dining (Bistro Sur La Mer, Sabatini's, Crown Grill, Alfredo's) and their wait staff, and the cabin stewards were excellent. That's where it stops, unfortunately.
The rest of the cruise was not.
How does the ship/Captain not know when a ship will not fit a channel and has to reroute, thus causing a delay into a port and cancellation of many shore excursions?
How does the ...
Someone in corporate decided to cut back on the food quality & menu options. The Dining Room menu was changed and striped of the better options, i.e., steak, sea bass., etc., and replaced with pasta & salmon. Dining Room was poor, and we could not hack it even three times, of our 33 days on the ship - all were flops and had to be sent back or a changed order. BOTH specially dinning, steak & ...
This was our first princess cruise we had high hopes and expectations after being sold the cruise by a 118 rep who couldn’t speak highly enough of princess
We had a very long embarkation and was stuck waiting in Southampton for over 3 hours this was g the best start but didn’t put us off
We found the ship very overcrowded and understaffed the service was pretty poor and the staff seemed ...
My husband booked this mini seacation as it was such good value. Southampton a couple of hours away so all good.
COVID testing process at the port nightmare for us and quite a few others. They check your vaccination details against your ID whilst in the very long queue! However, my NHS app wouldn’t load so we got pulled out of the mahoosive queue to get it sorted. It took about 10 minutes ...
1. When we left Scandic hotel in Copenhagen we asked a Princess rep in the hotel how to buy a ticket for a shuttle to the airport. She rudely said we hadn’t pre-booked one so to “find your own way there”. The taxi cost about 250 Danish crowns.
2. We lined up in the priority boarding line up and it was much slower than the regular line because so few non-platinum people were embarking. A waste ...
We chose the cruise because of ports we wanted to visit.
We have elite status on Princess and had been on the Regal twice before and this third time was a big disappointment. The quality/selection of the food was limited and awful and either over cooked and/or frequently cold. Many evenings the diningrm menu offerings were mediocre enough to warrant our going to the buffet, where service was ...
We will NEVER cruise Princess again!
We took this Cruise because of the destination: Norway and Iceland:
This was a Special Family celebration cruise planned and paid for by Mom celebrating her 90th birthday.
Ship was very old and customer service the worst!
For Mom's birthday she got a banner and balloons that said: "Happy Anniversary." :(
Our scheduled family birthday ...
Whilst the embarkation and dis embarkation went very smoothly and the cabin and the ship itself was of a good standard we were left feeling disappointed at quality of the food on offer and the additional charge if you wanted a steak rather than what was offered on the menu.
The price of beverages was a rip off, $6.75 for a can of Guinness probably with their buying power they get it for less ...