Vancouver to Asia Princess Diamond Princess Cruise Reviews

We are seniors ; 15+ cruises with lots of time. The 22 night cruise left from Vancouver and went to Alaska, Korea, Japan & China. The ports were all new to us. We pre booked a few sightseeing tours - but it was easy with some prior research to arrange last minute tours on our own at the ports. Princess did a very good job of describing the ports (the night before)and arranged for buses to take us ...

After reading some of the negative reviews here I was hesitant to book a cruise on this ship. I was also a bit hesitant being on a boat for 22 days with so many sea days. But it was such a low price since it was a repositioning cruise I decided to book it anyway. I was sure glad I did. Most of the complaints people have are nit picks to me. Embarkation - smooth. Took about 30 minutes to go ...

On Sept 22 we left Vancouver Canada for Asia via Ketchikan,Juneau,Skagway and Whittier Alaska. Six days at sea brought us to Muroran Japan, then Vladvostok, Russia, Pusan South Korea, and Dalian,Qingdao and Xingang China. In Xingang we took the ships tour to the great wall. It was a wonderful way to see these ports and easy, as the ship handled all the paper work. Most ports had free shuttles into ...

We've been on several Princess cruises, this was our second trip to Alaska, but have not gone this far north. The extra days to go to Whittier and Glacier Bay was a better Alaska experience. I say that because you just aren't seeing the typical tourist town. You are seeing miles and miles of wilderness, we were so lucky to see a lot of sea life. This was our first time with a balcony. It was ...