It was a nice trip.

Item: Discovery Princess
Rating: 3.9
Author: tagtlt007

Discovery Princess Cruise Review to Coastal - West Coast

tagtlt007

Contributor Level: Purser

Cruises: 7+ cruises

Reviews: 2

Helpful Votes: 49

Overall rating:

3.9 out of 5

Verified Review

4 Night West Coast Getaway With San Diego (Los Angeles Roundtrip)

Sail date: December 19, 2023

Ship: Discovery Princess

Cabin type: Balcony

Cabin number: E601

Traveled as: Family (young children)

Reviewed: 10 months ago

Review summary

We are elite Captain's Cir and find the new policies regarding specialty dinning to be boring and less quality (Particularly Alfredo's). Also, the plus packages for long voyages when view more carefully are not as good as it first appears. It says, based on 7 day cruise, but the language says it applies to entire voyage, thus a 16 day Hawaii or 30 day LA to Sydney are not as good--2 dinning for 7 ok, 2 dining for a 16 not good, and 2 dining for a 30 is terrible. YOU NEED A REDUCTION FOR NON-ALOCOLIC DRINKERS. We have two cruises planned and schedule for 2024. If you don't make changes, our rating is only go lower and lower. PS: The taste of the food has gone down since we started cruising with you years ago; is it that you don't use the Italian chefs of the past, or just more passengers mean lower quality?

Embarkation

4 out of 5

Where were the elite and suite lines???

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

2 out of 5

Slow dining room. Buffet was extreme well organized, but hard to find seating. Very disappointed in your changes to Alfredo's being a specially rest, with less quality. I don't remember if there was a sushi time at the buffet in the past, but moving it to specialty with very limited seating is a bust.

Onboard Activities

4 out of 5

Discovery kids was pretty well received.

Children's Programs

4 out of 5

Service and Staff

4 out of 5

Every one put in great effort. Dining room was slow, but may have not been waiters fault. May have been the kitchen.

Ship Quality

5 out of 5

The buffet design was magnificent. Love the photos on the decks (please post a link on your website of all of the photos--would love to have them as a continuous screen saver. Do not like the removal of the walk around the 7 floor deck--UGH

Cabin / Stateroom

5 out of 5

A242 cabin not E601.

Ship tip

Beware that the ship does not have the around the deck on 7th floor, and no other deck has a good walking area.

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Disembarkation

5 out of 5

11 Comments

Ladyjunecliff 10 months ago

We like the Princess Plus for tips, gelato, premium coffees, sodas, Wi-Fi, Gastropub or Alfredo’s Pizza, rare alcohol. I agree, if it’s a long cruise, it’s probably ripping you off for specialty dinners. We love the buffet and it seems to be most popular. Thanks for your review.

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bndfromaz 10 months ago

We miss the Promenade wrap around deck on the newer Princess ships. Hopefully they will bring them back.

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willwork4cruz 10 months ago

You may not know this but getting the Plus package is optional. If it is not a good deal for you then don’t buy it then complain about it; just don’t buy it. If someone is not a big drinker then the Plus package would never be economical.

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moondogy 10 months ago

Good points, but do we really believe anybody important from princess reads this site? I find emailing someone like Jan Swartz gets a little better results.

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TB654321 10 months ago

Thanks for the review!!

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Gwbigdog 10 months ago

Good points, thanks for your

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javawoody 10 months ago

Appreciate your view

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WorldCrusinJW 10 months ago

Thanks for the review

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Niavlys 10 months ago

Quality is diminishing on every ship it seems these days...

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cruising2004 10 months ago

Thank you for your review. You might want to email Princess directly as they will not be seeing this review.

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karlgrgurich 10 months ago

Can understand your view of the Princess plus packages. We never get them at all. We are Platinum, so get the discount on the wifi. We find it cheaper to just pay for our drinks and add in a specialty restaurant if we choose….

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