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Emerald Princess Cruise Review to Australasia

Cruises: 4-6 cruises
Review: 1
Helpful Votes: 74

Overall rating:

2 out of 5
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Emerald Princess

Australia & New zealand

Sail date: February 13, 2017

Ship: Emerald Princess

Cabin type: Oceanview

Cabin number: E505

Traveled as: Large Group

Reviewed: 7 years ago

Review summary

The foods served in the Dining Room (Da Vinci) are salty making them not edible. More so for elderly where sodium intake must be kept to its minimum. To make matter worse, there isn't much choice of specialty dining available as compared to the Golden and Diamond ship. Otherwise, we could have opted for specialty dining to replace those served in Da Vinci and Michael Angelo. Unlike the Golden and Diamond ship, the Grill and Pizza served in the sun deck of the Emerald are tasteless.  

 

The ports can be divided into essential and non essential. The essential ports being Port Chalmers, Akaroa and Tauranga. The rest are non essential.

This cruise, we have to skip Port Chalmers and Akaroa i.e. 2 out of 3 essential ports. While skipping the 2 essential ports are unavoidable due to fog, it would be good that an alternate ports be planned ahead rather just skipping the ports.

 

The saving grace for this experience being the good service crew. We appreciate their friendliness and hospitality. The embarkation and disembarkation were efficiently conducted. Kudos to the crew.  

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

1 out of 5

Onboard Activities

1 out of 5

Entertainment

1 out of 5

Service and Staff

5 out of 5

Ship Quality

3 out of 5

Cabin / Stateroom

3 out of 5
Stateroom is clean

Ship tip

Look out for Specialty Dining. They are often best to substitute those serve in the Fine Dining Room and the Horizon.

Ports of call

Sydney, Australia

3 out of 5

Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

1 out of 5

Cruise Fjordland National Park

3 out of 5

Port Chalmers (Dunedin), New Zealand

1 out of 5

Akaroa, New Zealand

1 out of 5

Picton, New Zealand

1 out of 5

Napier, New Zealand

1 out of 5

Tauranga, New Zealand

3 out of 5
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7 Comments

Tbcruise    7 years ago

Been on many of the ships. Missed 2 main ports while on Emerald in the past and was well compensated. Always loved everything about all our cruises.

ItaVero    7 years ago

Thanks for the review. We've always had a good time on the Emerald.

MisterMet    7 years ago

We had a wonderful time on the Emerald.  Sounds like things have changed since she went down under.

emmah67    7 years ago

'Essential ports' is a matter of opinion. For me I love Napier and wouldn't have been happy to miss it whereas I didn't lose sleep over missing dunedin.

DarbZ2017    7 years ago

Ahhhhhh Codswallop.. staff accommodate... you let them know...

Deniseg    7 years ago

As for the food, they can make a special low sodium meal from the menu just for you. A friend that went in multiple cruises with us did this. You pick out the night before what you want.

willwork4cruz    7 years ago

It would be awesome if cruise lines had alternate ports lined up for when a port is missed due to bad weather. It would take a lot of money and probably some magic but it would be nice.

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