Asia & Indian Ocean Cruise Reviews

Loved it and the ship and food was the highlight Ports were interesting except Darwin which was awful.

Great cruise line. Everything always runs smoothly.

This was the first part of a longer cruise that continued to Southampton, and many of the remarks above apply to the whole trip. With luck, I'll be able to review the other segments. I don't know if it was the ship or the air travel, but I came down with a bad cough that took me three weeks to shake. Fortunately, the weather was warm and the seas flat, so I took to sleeping on our balcony. The high humidity helped a lot.

Highly recommend Cunard for excellent service and friendly staff.

Thought we would enjoy India more than UAE but in fact it turned out to be the other way around. I think a week in Dubai would be enough to see all the main attractions. Cruise ship is fine and most service is of good standard. Excursions are a little overpriced in my opinion and you would be better off doing them yourself (Particularly Dubai). All passport controls take a very long time and you must get your passport checked at least 5 times in each country, or port. So time consuming in humid conditions.

Disappointed with ship, there’s just “something missing” which lots of other fellow guests have also said.

This our second cruise, which we were very excited to do but unfortunatly it did not meet upto our expectatons. If this was my first cruise i'm not sure i would be back. I am still living of my first cruise with The Jewel of the seas. After the first week of not feeling special we spoke to Diana in customer service who went out of her way to give us a better experience. I am also thankful to Jamaila and Sri, who also served us brilliantly. We will be travelling with Royal Caribbean next year and hope that it is better.

Ship was amazing plenty to do, staff friendly and helpful. Food lovely and plenty of it. Places we visited were very interesting, glad we took the tours though the ship as we got plenty of history & information about our surroundings from the local tour guides. We would have liked a little more free time in these places to explore but some ports were industrial as the ship was so big, so you had to get a bus to nearby villages.

We knew this would be a Chinese Cultural Experience but with over 2000 British and Australian passengers onboard the dining was geared to the Chinese passengers. The service and quality of food was terrible and we had to pay to dine in the Speciality restaurants, only Chops Grill was any good

This was our first cruise with Princess and we loved it. For us this is on the same level as Celebrity, and we will surely book with them again. The service is excellent, the food very good and we had no remarkt or complaints on the organization.

NICE CRUISE ITINERARY, WITH BEAUTIFUL ASIAN CITIES. UNFORTUNATELY, DESPITE YEARS OF CRUISING, THIS WAS OUR WORST EXPERIENCE EVER AS WE CALLED IN ADVANCE TO CHECK ON THE VISAS NEEDED, AND WHAT THEY TOLD US WAS NOT ACCURATE AND HAD TO DISEMBARK IN THE MIDDLE OF THE TRIP FOR LACKING ONE VISA...

Being on the transition cruise from China to Australia it was a disappointing experience but I am sure Princess will sort out the bugs and cater well for the Australian market. Without the magnificent staff and wonderful new friends we made it would have been a cruise I’d forget quite quickly.

Apart from the debarkle at the embarkation the rest of the cruise was great. We visited good ports and had plenty of sea time to kick back and relax. The Majestic is a great addition to the Princess fleet.

A total nightmare for us from the embarkment, the very expensive extended mini suite where we couldn't get a drop of sun, couldn't take good photos because of the too high partition between balconies, canopy around our deck, and support beam on the right side. Very mediocre food in dining room and Market Place (ex Horizon court). And nothing fancy. Best was the bakery. Reduced menu in the Room Service compare to all the other Princesses.

Not for the young or young at heart unless you are happy to do nothing for long periods. THIS TRIP WAS 22 DAYS. Although it is rumoured to change for the Australian market this should have happened on this trip as the majority were Australians travelling back to Australia and expected so much more for a new ship 1st time to Australia, certainly has made an impression for all the wrong reasons. Respectfully, suited to the older cruiser ( average age on this trip 67 yrs, a number of very young kids brought the average down ) May be better with shorter trips. We will not travel on this ship again and maybe not with Princess again.

Perhaps the lack of communication with passengers embarking at Shanghai Re lenghthy delays could have been better managed by the crew. There were many stories that were told of who was at fault but in the end the welfare of the passengers was of utmost importance under the extreme weather conditions that we experienced

As we cruised with friends from previous cruises we all had a good time with plenty of laughs along the way.We all liked the Any Time Dining so we had a table with the same waiters each night which was good.

Cruise was overall OK much mini suite and club class dining excellent some of the excursions I felt were overpriced and poorly organised especially cycling in Na Trang Entertainment was generally good Seating etc over crowded Too many Elite members

For a first time cruise I was really let down disappointed having been the first I would say in overall it's put myself and partner off to cruise again along with others on the ship saying the same worst cruise they have done and done plenty

Fabulous ship and excellent itinerary which was Hong Kong, Fukuoka, Nagasaki, Kumamoto, Shimonoseki and back to Hong Kong, not as the app lists it. As noted, facilities on the ship are universally excellent and two many to list here. We felt that the food menu especially was compromised by the location and ethnicity of a proportion of the passengers which is very understandable, but this had a big impact on the lack of choice on the main dining rooms. We love trying new foods, but it all got very ‘samey’’ after the first few days. One casualty that we didn’t know about was Jonny Rockets, which has been replaced with a permanently empty noodle bar. I don’t eat many burgers, but a do enjoy a Jonny rocket or two - not at the same time... The lack of manners and poor treatment of staff was very evident all over the ship, primarily by passengers from a specific country. We were not at all happy to see this, but the brilliant staff dealt with it very well. Overall a very enjoyable cruise, with some aspects that were a little disappointing.