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Item: Caribbean Princess
Rating: 2.6
Author: bigducks

Caribbean Princess Cruise Review to Canada, New England, New York

bigducks

Contributor Level: Purser

Cruises: 7+ cruises

Review: 1

Helpful Votes: 4

Overall rating:

2.6 out of 5

13 Night Canada & Colonial America (Ft. Lauderdale To Quebec)

Sail date: July 23, 2022

Ship: Caribbean Princess

Traveled as: Family (older children)

Reviewed: 2 years ago

Review summary

Princess has really gone down hill since our last cruise.

Embarkation

4 out of 5

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

1 out of 5

Skimpy

Dining Room

1 out of 5

Poor choice on menu. It a paired the we’re cutting corners. Forced to go to Chops to eat or the buffet not up to standards we called it the hog trough.

Slice Pizzeria

4 out of 5

Good pizza always had plenty. Closedown early.

Onboard Activities

2 out of 5

Excursions Deck

1 out of 5

Stood in line for an hour after our family of 10 got 8 on the excursion an two got sold out. Finally told by desk that if any cancelations we would be added and tickets would be under the cabin door. Well no tickets and our family said there was empty seats.

Passenger Services

2 out of 5

Goog if you could find someone most times we had to serve our selfs.

Entertainment

2 out of 5

Opera

Princess Theater

2 out of 5

Saw one show it was opera. The rest of the time choppes reservations overlaped.

Children's Programs

No kids

Service and Staff

3 out of 5

Room Stewards fantastic. One bartender for a whole deck waiters few and far between. Room service so late we missed it because of excursion. Medallion worked well but no personal to back it up.

Ship Quality

4 out of 5

Cabin / Stateroom

4 out of 5

Okay

Ship tip

Be patient

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Ports of call

Ft. Lauderdale (Port Everglades), Florida

4 out of 5

Norfolk, Virginia

3 out of 5

Brooklyn, New York

1 out of 5

Docked in Brooklyn had to buy tickets for ferry to get to NY SAME for return stood in line for hours to board. Eat up a lot of shore time. Missed seeing a lot of NYNY

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Newport, Rhode Island

2 out of 5

Boston, Massachusetts

2 out of 5

Short shore time

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Bar Harbor, Maine

5 out of 5

Best stop.

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Saint John, New Brunswick

2 out of 5

Short

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Halifax, Nova Scotia

2 out of 5

Short

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Sydney, Nova Scotia

2 out of 5

Short

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Quebec City, Quebec

3 out of 5

Split our shore time over two days half on an afternoon the other half packing and off ship by one. Had to move our own baggage from port to bus to Montreal Sheraton nice hotel out by one flight from Montreal to Orlando @ 7:pm delayed for 60 minutes all arrangements by Princess. Arrived Orlando stood in line at budget car rental for 3 hr. Because of the late hour there were no cars available they finally found one it was filthy an everything was set to KM ARIVED HOME AT 0600.

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Disembarkation

1 out of 5

6 Comments

1960cruiser 2 years ago

Although 7 months ago was the last time on this ship, I did not observe any if tge issues you encountered. If you are in the MDR, yes portions are small, but you are allowed to order as much as you can handle, but wasting food is not the answer either. I always enjoy reading,, (that's sarcasm), peoples comments, which they feel is an accurate account about how poor a cruise line is, especially when they haven't cruised on that line for over 8 years.

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Gwbigdog 2 years ago

Oops 😬 thanks

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RoyalCruzer 2 years ago

Poor cruise line that people continue to defend with no merit. I'm sorry for your bad experience.

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AuntPinkie 2 years ago

Sorry 😢

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RetiredRay 2 years ago

Are you sure you are rating the right ship? Chops is a Royal Caribbean brand. Glad our 16 days on the Regal was the total opposite of your experiences, it would have been a long trip. Sorry things did not work out for you. Oh, and skimpy is the common complaint these days on the food. But the good side to skimpy is that you no longer see a ton of wasted food going back to the garbage. If you are still hungry, order the same or another dish, they are happy to bring it to you.

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CruzeFan 2 years ago

Thanks for the review. Cruising is definitely not the same now as it was prior to Covid, and probably never will be the same again.

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