Our Stay could have been better!!

Item: Coral Princess
Rating: 2
Author: sbono

Coral Princess Cruise Review to Panama Canal, Central America

sbono

Contributor Level: Purser

Cruises: 2-3 cruises

Review: 1

Helpful Votes: 45

Overall rating:

2 out of 5

10 Night Panama Canal Partial Transit (Ft. Lauderdale Roundtrip)

Sail date: March 06, 2016

Ship: Coral Princess

Cabin type: Balcony

Cabin number: D221

Traveled as: Large Group

Reviewed: 8 years ago

Review summary

my trip start out great! I was looking forward to a balcony room for a 10 day trip to the panama canal. The first day the ship was really rocking motion pill time. checked out ship came back people fixing the leak in my hall for 6-7 days with buckets, tiles, drills hammers all over in front of my room. Shut the water off for one day from 9-12. They were there with ceiling tiles out and men every where in the hall constantly. When that was done they started cutting the carpet up and putting down new carpet! Now how is that for putting up with crap on your vacation!!!. It was a pain coming out of our room every day with them standing their daily. The staff in the provence dining room was awesome. we had a great time at every evening evening meal. also our waiters at the wheel house for bogo drinks were fantastic. The ship was always rocking i was taking motion sickness meds three times a day for almost the whole trip and the water was not that rough. I have been on other cruises so this was not my first ride, Besides the rocky ship the beaches were great, nice and blue the weather was beautiful every stop was great. I thought panama canal was long. It was 7.5 hours and it took up the whole day of nothing to do but sit on the boat and watch the canal. Nice trip!

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

3 out of 5

not alot of choices seem to be the same things

Entertainment

5 out of 5

Service and Staff

5 out of 5

vincent balsamo waiter,very nice, great smile and a person that makes sure he makes people happy. also Fedmil dedios, Junior waiter, He is a very nice guy always making sure we were well taking care of, and very happy that he could wait on us. He also assisted Louis in helping to do cpr on one of our friends in our group. Then there is Louis We have never laughed so hard before while enjoying a great meal.Louis is a great entertainer. He should be on stage. He was very pleasant and a joy, to watch him keep dee and steve entertained . We were very greatful for haveing been a party a table 125 and been served by Vincent, Fedemil, Louis, and sometimes Dragon!!!

Cabin / Stateroom

5 out of 5

We left a tip for Leo, I was suprize that we did not get any towel animals. I have been on other cruises where they made one every night. Maybe you don't this or not but people do like to see this. They are cute and funny, Maybe you should have a class and show them how to make them, We bearly saw our person. we how ever see the men in front of our door everyday. They were there for a week fixing the leak with buckets, drills, hammers, the ceilling tore apart and cords going all over the place in front of our room. But did anybody, ever bother to ask if we were fine with that or give us a discount on anything!!!

Ship tip

Check the ship out first, read the reviews!!

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Ports of call

Ft. Lauderdale (Port Everglades), Florida

5 out of 5

Oranjestad, Aruba

5 out of 5

Cartagena, Colombia

5 out of 5

Panama Canal (Cruise Into Canal)

5 out of 5

to long in hot sun 7.5 hours

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Colon, Panama

5 out of 5

the trip was ok the panama canal was just to long in the hot sun

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Puerto Limon, Costa Rica

5 out of 5

if you take this one do the river rafting it will be the best time of your life!!

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George Town, Grand Cayman

5 out of 5

W e did seven mile beach Nice !!

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6 Comments

Gwbigdog 2 years ago

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socal60 7 years ago

It's a bummer that they didn't just run to the hardware store and get the parts to fix the LEAK. Or that they didn't leave the wet carpet so it could grow mold. What were they to do? It fix it at sea. I can't believe you freaking people don't understand that when something breaks it needs to be fixed. Could and should they try to move you? Yes but if there ain't nothing to move you to I guess they could have put you out in the Lido deck in a tent. I once stayed at a hotel that the fire sprinkler when off just before we got there. The were fixing carpet and walls all around our room but we dealt with it and made the best.

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gottcoke 8 years ago

I agree with you. They should have let the water leak the whole time you were on board. And than they could just cancel the next cruise to fix it. Screw the next 2000 people just so you did not have workers in front of your cabin. And I also agree that they need to make the canal shorter. Hey lets send billions to dig another canal so cruise ships don't have to send so much time going through.

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hozjan 8 years ago

I was on this same cruise. Just got back today. It was my 18th cruise with princess and I thought it was great. It is not princesses fault it was a little rough a couple of times and it really was not that rough! Why go to Panama Canal if you don't want to do the day of scenic cruising?

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SueTomCruisers 8 years ago

Occasionally rough seas will happen - if you're going to cruise in the future -- which for many reasons I think you should NOT -- learn to deal with it!

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SvetlanaS 8 years ago

Gaylene-nobody will want to find you cabin in the middle of remodeling that lasted for 7days! Sbono - did you ask for different room?

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