Europe - Western Europe Cruise Reviews

Overall, we made the best of our vacation but it was not the cruise for us. We were surprised to find everything on the ship in English with the majority of guests being from the U.K., then America, then Asia. But with a long overseas trip, almost everyone was over the age of 65. The service was poor, the food was poor, the cruise director Dave was terrible, and the activity schedule was poorly planned.

We booked this cruise because of the itinerary and are very happy we did this. Great itinerary. HOWEVER, we had two very rocky days at sea. We had 17 foot waves for over 36 hours. I'm not sure this ship was designed for these type of waves and swells. On the second night at sea, many passengers said they had difficulty not being rocked out of their beds.

I will take this cruise again some day to visit the ports we missed due to weather.

This is a great cruise for history lovers. Every port has some very interesting venues to see and learn something new. Since I went in December, this was not a typical go to the sun type vacation, but the history and culture more than made up for the low temperatures. Still managed to come back with a tan.

great cruise ,staff was good,all trips was good.This is averwelming what you are asking

A good price bargain for booking a year and a half in advance. Interesting ports of call itinerary. An aging ship too small for 2200 passengers. Do not need shopping opportunities on excursions.

The ports of call were good...places we hadn't been to before. The ship was just ok...old...and entertainment we had seen before. We were surprised how many smokers there were on the ship. Cigarette smoke wafted down one stairwell/elevator area in particular.

Loved this late November cruise. It was a great getaway before the holidays. The itinerary was great and as a bonus included 3 days at sea. Would highly recommend it!

A wonderful experience, especially for an American who was surrounded by Brits and Australians, we only me 5 other Americans on board. Very lovely ports. Totally loved the voyage.

We enjoyed the ship and the staff. As mentioned above our suite and the attendant were marvelous. We cant speak for the excursions as we get into town and select what we want to do.

We took this trip because of the itinerary and the extras offered such as paid gratuities, onboard credit, and free excursions. That was as expected. The botched airport to ship transfer was a real downer. It cost $139pp and we could have taken a direct train from the airport to Southampton for 16 euros. The ship itself was OK, but showed its age.

Destinations were scenic but just ok (except for Edinburgh-that was very nice, although the price of the "Edinburgh on your own" bus was too high- better off with a taxi next time) Great staff. Well run ship. We had lots of fun. Miss them already!

Our 45th wedding anniversary. A wonderful trip. First time for anytime dining and for this cruise it was necessary as we came back late and tired most nights.

The cruise was filled with events that will keep you occupied. Weather turns out to be great when we reached a port. Onshore excursions were well organized. However, our tour bus was trapped in traffic getting back to the pier at Dublin. Several lanes of traffic were merged into one lane only thus causing us to be late by as much as 30 mins. However Princess was excellent in handling this situation. They telephoned the guide and waited for us. Exciting trip.

Once again, wonderful crew and excellent service. Very organized, even when we had to delay arrival into a port, our excursion was re-scheduled to a later time and ship left later. Loved the ports, the scenery. People were so friendly. This is a great vacation to see the British Isles!

Due to mechanical problems, we did not leave Dover until the next day and had to miss our first port, St. Helier. Huge disappointment. We loved Waterford, Dublin, and Edinburgh. The food on the cruise was the absolute worst food we have experienced. Old, inedible, disgusting in the main dining room, buffet, everywhere. We ate off ship in every port. Other than our wonderful room steward, service was poor. We will never cruise Princess again.

The trip was good, My issue is that the ports are advertised as the itinerary. The ship should have included all transportation to the actual centers of the cities.

I would book with Windstar again in a minute. Loved the Star Legend ship as the size of the rooms were so relaxing and tons of space to hold everything we brought with with and accommodate the new stuff we bought. Wonderful cabin attendant Desi who immediately was able to soften the bed for me a bit. I found the bed to be quite hard and also found softer pillows for us. Our waiter each night was Deva who we had met when we were on a prior Windstar cruise and remembered us. Met a new waitress Trisna who had a smile for everyone on board and learned my name the first day and what I liked to drink. Kristi who now works in the onboard tours, was our photographer on the Windsurf and immediately remembered us from our previous trip. Met the new photographer Rhea who was also extremely friendly and went on a tour at every port and got some amazing pictures. I love that they have reasonable package deals and you don't feel pressed into buying their pictures. Our captain was great and made sure to point out things as we were traveling. We had a pod of blue whales who swam with us for a bit outside of Iceland. We did a 360 spin in the Geiranger Fjord so we could all see the waterfalls. We had a piper playing his bagpipes as we left the dock in Kirkwall Scotland and then the captain got up closer to the Orkney Cliffs just outside of Kirkwall. We lucked out with amazing weather, sunny blue skies. Definitely a trip to remember!

Our overall trip was marred by the fact that one of the three rooms we booked had wet carpet and mold in it. Two in our party had to bunk with others for one night, and carry things to another empty room for another night, while Princess crew cut up the carpet and tried to replace it. The room still smelled moldy by our counts. The Third night Princess convinced another passenger to change rooms with us, and it was smooth sailing from there. Still, after cruising on a new Princess ship in Baltic two years ago, The Caribbean Princess is showing her age.

Cunard does it right. We couldn't have asked for a more perfect holiday. Nothing was impossible. Nothing was too much trouble. Nothing was denied. We were never told no. It was our first cruise on one of the queens but it won't be the last.