NEVER again, the SS Minnow, run by Gilligan and the skipper
Crown Princess Cruise Review to Europe - Western Europe
12 Night British Isles With Kirkwall (Southampton Roundtrip)
Sail date: June 30, 2019
Ship: Crown Princess
Cabin type: Balcony
Cabin number: B309
Traveled as: Couple
Reviewed: 5 years ago
Review summary
Let me start with an embarkation where without prior notification they confiscate your passport, ostensibly to speed up international travel. BALONEY. I have been on multiple European cruises and this is the first time it was ever done. Additionally with identity theft on the rise, I DO NOT want anyone with my passport. And of course they tell you to have some other sort of government ID on you. MEMO TO IDIOTS. When you travel overseas you do not necessarily bring other ID with you. On of course after I had my heart set on the Normandy Beaches, and BOOKED a Princess Tour [they bought out all of the available seats on any Normandy Tours so they were the only game in town]I find out that I cannot go because I am disembarking at LeHavre and am no longer their guest. [I was their guest when they took my money]And of course they let the TOURING passengers off of the boat immediately and let the disembarking passengers wait until 830 to leave. Absolutely obnoxious and disrespectfull. Regarding food: I have NEVER spent a week with tasteless food that belongs in a college dorm cafeteria like this. It is pathetic. Does the chef have any clue how to spice food. Tasteless was a kind word: The only decent coffee I had was in the specialty coffee shot [had to pay] the only decent cake was in the specialty restaurant and the I cannot say that I enjoyed a SINGLE meal on the ship and I AM certainly NOT a foody. In short, the the expense USE ANOTHER CRUISE LINE. I have sailed, Holland, Royal Carib, even Carnival and each of those were better than this dump. And my favorite is leaving ports late because of Low tide. Memo to idiots. Any of us who took third grade science know that Tidal Charts are predictable months in advance. I guess the SS Minow and its captain and master Captain and Gilligan skipped that class in boat school.Embarkation
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Don't go. Sail Cunard or another line.
Ports of call
St. Peter Port, Guernsey, Channel Islands
Kirkwall, Orkney Islands, Scotland
Invergordon (Inverness & Loch Ness), Scotland
South Queensferry (Edinburgh), Scotland