Princess Grand Princess Cruise Reviews for Fitness to the Mediterranean from Rome (Civitavecchia)

We have so far never repeated Cruise line,because we always missed something,Costa Fortuna ,Hal Noordam total bad experience,Celebrity Mercury.This was our first cruise with Princess and we where impressed from the start.Embarkation,we where in our cabin in less than 30 minutes that is from arriving at the terminal in Civitavecchia.The cabin was very bright,the steward very helpful,the buffet food ...

October 13, 2009 Egypt and Aegean aboard the Princess Grand. The basics: This is our 4th cruise and second aboard the Grand. We booked a Mini on Dolphin deck 9 forward. Room steward Raymond. The verandah is totally uncovered on this deck and has four chairs. There is a laundry up one deck on 10. A Princess cruise and there was 2 formal nights. The first sea day was day two, formal. The Next ...

Our Best Cruise so far, 4th with Princess.Two couples, mid-fifties, celebrating our 30th wedding anniversaries, and friend Paula's birthday. Grand Princess clean, staff great, can see signs of ship's age.Prefer Princess over other lines for demographics, service, value.Cabin steward, Tsvetomir was great, as was waitstaff Victoria and Benny in Da Vinci anytime dining. Wish Princess would ...

Our arrival into Rome was flawless and our B&B had arranged transportation from the airport. As we exited the baggage area the driver was there waiting and our trip was uneventful except for the Rome traffic. The B&B we chose was located close to the Vatican and our hostess met us at the door and helped us get settled. Our accommodations were excellent but small. Breakfast was served daily in ...

Grand Princess Eastern Med Oct 17th-Oct 28h First a couple notes. I will try not to repeat what has been said before in prior reviews and concentrate on only those things that have not been mentioned or are new. My wife and I are reasonably seasoned travellers and don't tend to take many excursions, preferring to do many ports on our own. For this reason, most of the notes on ports of call ...

After much research and great doubts on the size of the Grand Princess, we decided to book their 12 night Med Cruise as it included all of the ports we wanted to see (Rome, Monte Carlo, Livorno, Naples, Santorini, Kusadasi, Mykonos, Athens, Olympia, Corfu and Venice). I planned 3 days pre-cruise in Rome, 2 post-cruise in Venice and 2 in Paris before flying home. We left LAX on a direct ...

In general, from previous experience on the Grand Princess, we found the ship to be somewhat disappointing. The ports of call, however, were great, starting in Civitavecchia, and traveling to Florence, Cannes, Barcelona, Gibraltar, Casablanca, Cadiz, Lisbon, Vigo, Le Havre, and Southampton. The Princess-arranged pre-cruise extension in Rome at Hotel Cicerone was very nice. Clean hotel, clean ...

Mediterranean Vacation  July 2006 We spent 17 days on a pre-cruise 3 night visit to Rome, 12 night Mediterranean cruise on the Grand Princess, and a post-cruise 2 night visit to Venice. Thanks to a lot of input from the CC Boards we had an awesome experience for this first time visit to the Mediterranean. We were 3 families consisting of 6 adults plus 5 children (ages 9 through 15). The focus ...

The Grand Princess doesn't quite live up to its "Grand" name. The atrium is only three decks high, and the so called "Panoramic Lifts" are only glass at the atrium (decks 5, 6, 7) and deck 14 (overlooking the pool). Elevators took a while to catch and the stair cases were terrible to use. Beyond deck 7 there is no midship stair case, the aft set of stairs only starts at 5, cuts off at 6, and the ...

This is our fourth Princess cruise in the past 3 years; we sailed on the Grand in 2002, the Star in 2003, the Dawn in 2004. This was our honeymoon european adventure. This ship is showing her age and in need of some minor refurbishment -- furniture/carpet replacement, deck chair replacement, cleaning, etc. The crew were very friendly and happy. We had a great time overall. Criticisms & Praises: ...