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Emerald Princess Cruise Review to Hawaii

Cruises: 7+ cruises
Reviews: 5
Helpful Votes: 81

Overall rating:

4.8 out of 5
Emerald Princess

15 Night Hawaiian Islands (Los Angeles Roundtrip)

Sail date: January 03, 2019

Ship: Emerald Princess

Cabin type: Inside

Cabin number: C714

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 5 years ago

Review summary

I had read a couple of bad reviews, but we were very pleased with the ship, the staff and the excursions

Embarkation

5 out of 5
Easy on, room ready, lunch fine.

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

4 out of 5
Everything wa good. Buffet crowded but nice variety. Main dining room food good and enjoyable company

Onboard Activities

5 out of 5
Hit us, lectures on places we would visit, karaoke, shows. Movie under the stars

Entertainment

5 out of 5
Excellent

Service and Staff

5 out of 5
All went out of way to take care of us

Ship Quality

5 out of 5
Nice ship. They actually put down new carpet in our room during the cruise

Cabin / Stateroom

5 out of 5
None of the inside rooms are big but it met our needs. Very clean and bed good

Ship tip

Go to back of ship decks 15-17 for lovely place to sit and relax. Lounge deck 18 back of ship great too

Ports of call

San Pedro (Los Angeles), California

5 out of 5
Easy to get to through airport and get to cruise.

Honolulu, Oahu

5 out of 5
We spent day in town. Just took Hilo Hattie free shuttle, walked to beach and rode trolley around down and then Germaine’s Loua that night

Nawiliwili, Kauai

5 out of 5
Loved excursion to canyon

Lahaina, Maui

5 out of 5
Took catamaran, saw so many whale, very nice day

Hilo, Hawaii

5 out of 5
We did a private excursion through taxi driver named Frank. He was amazing. Took six of us all around area. I would recommend him.

Ensenada, Mexico

3 out of 5
Just took shuttle downtown. It was clean, people friendly, but not much to see or so

Disembarkation

5 out of 5
No problems
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6 Comments

Gwbigdog    2 years ago

Canadachick    5 years ago

We go March 11 as well. Looking forward too this. Was on the Crown Princess in Feb 2018. It looks identical.

buckyboy    5 years ago

Staff were great on the Emerald when we went too.

JefftheJedi    5 years ago

NIce review .. we depart 11 March .. can’t wait Maholo

monksy91    5 years ago

I absolutely loved the emerald princess. Felt so comfortable on board and loved the vide and atmos. Hugely recommend her. Just waiting for her to come back to Southampton some day.

Canadachick    5 years ago

Glad and relieved. Going on her in 48 days

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