This review is the last post in my LIVE From. If you want to see tons of photos and detail, check it out:
https://boards.cruisecritic.com/topic/2996368-live-from-the-sun-princess-9-mar-2024-10-day-mediterranean-second-voyage/
I’ll keep these comments about the ship, rather than ports or other things.
Stateroom
Reserve Minisuite
We loved the minisuite - with one exception covered ...
1) No production shows. The arena isn’t ready and actors need to rehearse. Everyone was given a $60 credit.
2) Santorini port visit was cancelled. Something about the cable car in town was undergoing maintenance. Crete was substituted.
3) I’d suggest making dinner reservations each night in horizons level 6 or 7. Then if you want to go to a speciality restaurant jsut cancel the horizons ...
I wanted to try a royal class ship and picked the enchanted princess for the European ports. But as luck will have it . They had to cancel Madeira due to a naval pilot strike. The ship is beautiful, clean but is showing wear in the cabin and hallway carpets, and lumpy beds. The only annoying things are the cost cutting measures put in place. Note cost cutting words were used by Princess staff. ...
Please note, this is a long, detailed, log-like review. If you just want the summary and conclusions just scroll on down to the bottom!
We traveled for 13 days before the cruise. A summary of pre-cruise travels: Porto was a “10” all around. Sintra a solid and enjoyable “8.” Florence perhaps a “3” if I am being generous. If we had to plan this again, we would have stayed longer in Porto and ...
We chose Enchanted for its itinerary which ran from Rome to Athens in 7 days. We had previously sailed on the Royal for a 10 day UK itinerary so we knew what to expect from food, ship entertainment and value. While overall I still rate Princess 4 stars there are several changes that are worth mentioning. 4 big reasons I say Princess is driving me away. First, I purchased the cruise 9 months ...
Having sailed with Princess on previous occasions we booked a 7 night cruise on The Enchanted Princess. Cabins were up to the usual Princess standard, spotlessly clean with nice decor and very comfy beds. The ship overall is beautiful, with new lounges and 3 complimentary main dining rooms to choose from (Amalfi, Santorini and Capri) Food very good with plenty of choice. Its a big ship, but we ...
I chose the 21 Odyssey because our favorite line didn't go to Gibraltar. This and Turkey was new to me. Some of the port calls are too short, by the time you bus to where you're going and back it eats up most of the stop. Like Kotor, Montenegro. Our tour was to Budva, historic Kotor, St. Tryphon and the Maritime Museum. By the time we got back from Budva, we had 45 minutes for the remaining ...
I chose this cruise for the itinerary and I have never sailed with Princess before. This was my seventh cruise and I traveled with my husband and my mother. We were in two mini suites on deck 8 starboard. The cabins were absolutely beautiful and our cabin steward, Ale, was the best we have ever had.
The food in the main restaurants was excellent much better than we had experienced on both MSC ...
Absolutely seamless and quick embarkation process.Very professional and helpful staff.
Excellent Stateroom.Very well maintained. Quick room service. Very attentive stateroom steward William who promptly looked after all our requests and always kept the stateroom neat and tidy.
Beautiful ship,many restaurants and bars so a wide choice.
Entertainment was not like it used to be pre Covid. ...
We chose this cruise for the ports primarily .We were celebrating our 48th anniversary .The Enchanted Princess is a great size, not too big and not too small. It was very easy to find our way around the ship quickly. The ship was clean and the staff almost everywhere were awesome. The food was "fine " but nothing spectacular. The app was working ok. We had cruised in Feb 22 and actually thought ...