Chosen because of its destination. New Zealand. First impression. The ship was big. Cabin was very comfortable. Nice touch with floor lights when using the bathroom at night. Plenty of hanging space and storage.Initial thoughts that the ship had a lot of rust for its age. Fixtures and fittings in some public areas looked tired.. Theatre was very good but only catered for 1400 passengers per show ...
This was the cruise of our dreams....and New Zealand didn't let us down.
Sadly there was much to disappoint on board.
We found organisation often chaotic specially on days we had to tender. You had to queue for tickets to join then queue to get off and it took an absolute age. Another occasion we had to queue for a ticket just to join the queue to get off the ship to get on a shuttle bus. ...
Chose this cruise sailing from Sydney to see the Fiordlands unfortunately we were not told that there is only a small chance to see them, Apparently the ships are often denied entry to the Fiords because of possible weather. So of course we did get to see that portion. Had we known about this we would not have booked.
On the first night we tried the dining room (Botticelli) the Chef in there ...
Overall, it was a great cruise, probably one of the friendliest crew we have ever experienced.
Positives:
1. Great crew. Very friendly especially at all the bars.
2. Very comfortable bed.
3. Free room service, very decent menu and you now order through the TV. Very timely service.
4. Great variety of entertainment.
5 very smooth and efficient embarkation and disembarkation. ...
What was to be a celebration of our birthdays turned out to be the worse cruise we ever sailed with Princess! We are platinum members and have never experienced such rude and brusque attitudes from crew members from all of our travels! From a RUDE Maitre'd---who made me cry and kept walking by looking at me and never attempted to address the situation, to rudely being awoken at 5am with hammering ...
We boarded the Ruby princess in Auckland for a 14 night cruise over new years all the way to Sydney.
As we boarded the ship which was fine & easy to do, there were no offices to greet us just custom people, ( in the past we have always been greeted by offices ) made our way to our balcony cabin on deck 11, our room service man was there, nice enough man, I asked what type of animal would he ...
We chose this cruise as an celebration of my birthday. The Ruby did not meet our expectations at all. The staff was not at all customer oriented and for the most parr were just going through the motions. The buffet was subpar. The Vines lounge was excellent and a great offering. The staff in this lounge made our cruise. Overall This was by far the worst cruise we have taken and we have taken 7, ...
We a seasoned cruisers haven traveled on many different cruise lines many of which are associated with Princess Cruises.
Having made many enjoyable trips prior on other well known cruise lines we decided to try Princess cruises.
My wife and i were excited to be joining friends on board for an end of year cruise some of whom have had many enjoyable trip with Princess lines.
As always we ...
it was full of old people not much to do
entertainment was poorly organised.
veriety of food was poor,the food was basically the same day in day out in lido deck 15,breakfast mainly.
it was annoying to find 2 people sitting at a table of 6-8 when we have 7 of us i feel that staff could organise a little better.
it was great that the staff were lookig after everyone with tea and coffie ...
What Princess Cruise Lines won’t tell US citizens embarking from Australia. They will try to cheat you!
1. Although you purchase everything in US dollars, your onboard credit you were promised is not in US Dollars anymore, but in AUD. We were jipped!
2. TIP: Usually the tip is mandatory/included in most cruises for US citizens, but you do NOT have to pay the fixed tip for Embarking from ...