Superb late deal
Crown Princess Cruise Review to Europe - Northern Europe
8 Night Norwegian Fjords (London Roundtrip)
Sail date: August 10, 2013
Ship: Crown Princess
Cabin type: Balcony
Cabin number: R209
Traveled as: Couple
Reviewed: 7 years ago
Review summary
Our second cruise came almost five years after our first and happened because we had a good, late deal emailed to us offering us an outside cabin upgrade for the price of an inside one. As the cruise departed from Southampton (30 minutes from our house) we took up the offer. Getting on board I became giddy with excitement at discovering we hadn't just got an outside cabin but a balcony instead. The Crown Princess was familiar in its layout since it was a Grand-class ship like our previous trip on the Diamond. Being a shorter trip it had more families and felt busier overall but we discovered that the adults pool outside the Sanctuary had a current machine (it's present on all the Grand-class Sanctuary pools, I believe) which replaced swimming laps in a crowded pool satisfactorily. We enjoyed the art auctions and puchased a piece by an artist we'd appreciated on our first cruise but been not quite well-off enough to buy at the time. Ship's decor was familiar and light, dining was good, service was very good, and the excursions we took were all fantastic even if the hike up to and behind the waterfall at Geiranger was a little more strenuous than we'd presumed. But we made it and were glad we did.
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If in the small, adults-only Sanctuary pool there's a current machine you can switch on by pushing bar situated between the two hot tubs.
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