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Emerald Princess Cruise Review to Europe - Western Mediterranean

Cruises: 4-6 cruises
Review: 1
Helpful Votes: 47

Overall rating:

4.4 out of 5
Emerald Princess

7 Night Western Mediterranean (Barcelona To Rome)

Sail date: June 29, 2019

Ship: Emerald Princess

Cabin type: Balcony

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 5 years ago

Review summary

Wonderful, visited many incredible place, Acropolis, Pompeii to name a few, relaxed, made new friends, what more could you ask for, negatives were minor, memories priceless.

Embarkation

5 out of 5
Very easy, no queues, great

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

4 out of 5
Buffet: I think we were spoilt for choice when we sailed Regal Princess, on the Emerald, buffet area a lot smaller and not as great choices, but food was good, Main Dining Room: decent enough but I mainly had the Salmon or the Chicken which is on the every night Menu only because I’m fussy but my husband ate everything and enjoyed it. Crown Grill: Payed twice to go there, and I am only giving them 3***’s at the most, first time not many people in the room we arrived at our sitting time of 7.30 about 10 minutes prior for a drink first and asked to be seated by a window and was told you should of got here about 7pm, we were seated 7.30 waiter friendly enough Steak was delicious but had to keep asking for our drinks, 2nd visit was appalling, Waitress pleasant enough once again arrived earlier for a window seat was told bad luck first in best dressed which is fair enough but why have seating times and let people in at any time, this time though we ordered Steak again and from where we were sitting I could view 2 Meals on the counter waiting to be served and sure enough they were ours and delivered to our table after 10 minutes and were cold🥶 bought this to the attention of staff and was told sorry but it’s busier in here tonight what do you want, this in my opinion is not good enough when paying top dollar.

Onboard Activities

4 out of 5

Entertainment

2 out of 5
Ships Theatre shows very poor, and heard this from a lot of guests, Ships Band The Sound not to bad, They had a DJ, DJ Nikki appalling as entertaining as a wet fish and I think she was replaced by someone before the cruise finished

Service and Staff

5 out of 5
Our room Steward Limo was amazing such a beautiful man, and we met some crew members whom we had met on other ships and had formed friendships with before so that was lovely to catch up with them and also to make new friends Like Gloria and Mojito to name a couple. But everyone we encountered were very pleasant and helpful no complaints on staff

Ship Quality

4 out of 5
Their was a bad smell smell on level 7 near the lifts at the shops for the first couple weeks so that was unpleasant but overall it was kept maintained and T every port you could see painting and maintenance being done.

Cabin / Stateroom

5 out of 5
We had cabin c705, which was of average size but big enough for two of us, enough storage space, bathroom small but that’s minor, great large balcony which was fantastic so if you wanted some quiet time away from everyone you had your own little haven to go to, I didn’t like the bed I think it was a bit old and mattress was a bit lumpy, but room was always spotless, ice bucket always filled, no complaints

Ship tip

Just get on and enjoy their will be things we like and things we don’t like but don’t let it spoil a great holiday, mine was Fantastic.

Ports of call

Barcelona, Spain

5 out of 5
I love Barcelona, I have been prior to this cruise and stayed 3 nights before this cruise, no excursions just wandered around the city and relaxed.

Gibraltar (U.K.)

4 out of 5
Went to the Seige Tunnels and Top of the Rock and saw the Barbary 🦍’s, also saw the lighthouse and one of the oldest 🕌

Marseille (Provence), France

4 out of 5
We got on the hop on hop of bus, we only got off at the beautiful big Cathedral and then we wandered around the harbour and had some lunch and 🍷’s

Genoa, Italy

5 out of 5
We went on an excursion to Portofino, Camogli and Santa Margherita , we wandered around all 3 ports and had a swim at Camogli, had lunch at our own expense in Santa Margherita and drinks at Portofino worth a visit.

Livorno (Florence & Pisa), Italy

5 out of 5
We just caught the bus into Florence and wandered around on our own as we had been here before as well, love Florence, purchased some 👠 and 👜 had some lunch and drinks wandered over the Ponte Vecchio Bridge again it’s always crowded.

Civitavecchia (Rome), Italy Did not visit port

We just caught the bus into Rome and wandered around on our own as we had been here before as well, looked at most of the sites again though, the Trevi Fountain, Spainish Steps etc lunch and drinks and went shopping as you do.

Disembarkation

5 out of 5
Very easy, bags put out the night before, went to our meeting spot to disembark and as we had just turned Platinum we were told we didn’t have to wait our time and could disembark the and there if we were ready to.
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3 Comments

Gwbigdog    2 years ago

Fiesta83    4 years ago

billcravey    5 years ago

Very nice to hear that you didn’t let the little things ruin your overall experience. Sounds like you had a very nice cruise!