CROWN PRINCESS IS BROKEN

Crown Princess Cruise Review to Alaska - Inside Passage

Cruises: 7+ cruises
Review: 1
Helpful Votes: 17

Overall rating:

2.5 out of 5
Crown Princess

7 Night Inside Passage With Glacier Bay National Park (Seattle Roundtrip)

Sail date: May 28, 2022

Ship: Crown Princess

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 2 years ago

Review summary

Crown Princess is BROKEN!!! We are currently on the Crown Princess. One of the motors is broken, there is a terrible vibration in the back of the ship and sounds horrible. In the dining rooms you have to almost yell to hear others at your table. The ship is also traveling at very slow speed. Port times have gone from a day to just a few hours, due to travel speed times. Another port has been canceled all together. When visiting with customer service, I’ve been told this has been a problem for the last several cruises. I asked why we weren’t notified? They stated they did send notification of the itinerary changes. They did send notification 24 hours prior to departure. I checked emails, we were notified late Friday, We we’re traveling to the departure port city on Friday for early boarding on Saturday and didn’t have service or check emails. We are now stuck on a ship for 7 days. Only 3 ports of call and 2 of those shortened excursion days with excursions canceled. Only one excursion day is longer than 6 hours. The cruise is over 168 hours with in port times less than a total of 26 hours. WE used to cruise every year, we always wanted to do an Alaska cruise, now I think we’re done never cruising again! -- Jim Hyde

Embarkation

2 out of 5

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

3 out of 5
DINING ROOM Feels like an earth quate is happening under it

Onboard Activities

4 out of 5

Entertainment

4 out of 5

Service and Staff

2 out of 5

Ship Quality

3 out of 5
It's Old and not updated

Cabin / Stateroom

3 out of 5

Ship tip

Crown Princess is BROKEN!!! We are currently on the Crown Princess. One of the motors is broken, there is a terrible vibration in the back of the ship and sounds horrible. In the dining rooms you have to almost yell to hear others at your table. The ship is also traveling at very slow speed. Port times have gone from a day to just a few hours, due to travel speed times. Another port has been canceled all together. When visiting with customer service, I’ve been told this has been a problem for the last several cruises. I asked why we weren’t notified? They stated they did send notification of the itinerary changes. They did send notification 24 hours prior to departure. I checked emails, we were notified late Friday, We we’re traveling to the departure port city on Friday for early boarding on Saturday and didn’t have service or check emails. We are now stuck on a ship for 7 days. Only 3 ports of call and 2 of those shortened excursion days with excursions canceled. Only one excursion day is longer than 6 hours. The cruise is over 168 hours with in port times less than a total of 26 hours. WE used to cruise every year, we always wanted to do an Alaska cruise, now I think we’re done never cruising again! -- Jim Hyde

Ports of call

Seattle, Washington

1 out of 5

Juneau, Alaska

2 out of 5
Port time was reduced to a couple hours

Icy Strait Point (Hoonah), Alaska

2 out of 5

Disembarkation

1 out of 5
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9 Comments

Gwbigdog    2 years ago

Thanks for sharing your cruise.

Cruisiegal    2 years ago

I hope they give you future credits

rnemire    2 years ago

They need to cancel cruises on that ship and FIX IT

AuntPinkie    2 years ago

javawoody    2 years ago

I say relax and enjoy the rest of the cruise

Carnivalfoodie    2 years ago

CruzeFan    2 years ago

Thanks for the review. This was reported a month ago and all passengers were notified of the issues and changes. It’s always important to read all information sent by the cruise line and to check the website often for updates. This was sent on April 28 to those booked on upcoming cruises - “, “Please be advised that due to scheduled engine maintenance, Crown Princess will not be operating at full speed during your upcoming cruise. This in no way compromises the safety of our guests and crew, which is our highest priority but does require us to make some revisions to your cruise itinerary.”

byhisgrace    2 years ago

I hope they make it right for you all.

karlgrgurich    2 years ago

I think that’s terrible. They should take that ship out of service, fix it and rebook people on other ships that aren’t even sailing Alaska at full capacity.

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