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: 38

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: 8 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.

Thumbs up

Disembarkation

5 out of 5

11 Comments

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