Princess doesn't shine

Golden Princess Cruise Review to Mexico

Cruises: 7+ cruises
Reviews: 2
Helpful Votes: 27

Overall rating:

2 out of 5
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Golden Princess

3 Night West Coast Getaway (Los Angeles Roundtrip)

Sail date: November 30, 2014

Ship: Golden Princess

Cabin type: Oceanview

Cabin number: E401

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 10 years ago

Review summary

Princess advertises "Any Time Dining". On our recent cruise, this meant if you didn't get in line at least 1/2 hour to 45 minutes before the dining room door opened, you were left standing in line for 2 hours. Although they had 3 dining rooms, only one was offered for the 5:30 dining room option of "Any Time Dining". With over 2,000 guests on board, what a frustrating experience. Even after getting seated, we were quite disappointed in the quality of meals. We have had a much better dining experience on Holland America and Norwegian.

Please know this does not reflect our opinion or experience with Cruise 411. With Cruise 411, we have always had great service!

 

 

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

1 out of 5
Quality just not there.

Onboard Activities

3 out of 5

Entertainment

5 out of 5
Great entertainment.

Children's Programs

N/A

Service and Staff

5 out of 5
Our cabin steward, Ernesto was superb.

Ship Quality

1 out of 5
Our room smelled like sewer.

Ship tip

Don't drink cafeteria or dining room coffee. Couldn't wait to get home to brew me a cup of good stuff.

Ports of call

San Pedro (Los Angeles), California

5 out of 5
I found a wonderful garden center where we stayed overnight in El Segundo.

Ensenada, Mexico

5 out of 5
We found the vendors fun and friendly. I had a great massage downtown.
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1 Comment

glomarrone    9 years ago

Princess needs to fix this.  Are they trying to sabotage Anytime Dining???  Anytime dining is the wave of the future.

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