We really enjoyed our cruise. Very relaxing and the crew where all very frendly

Item: Golden Princess
Rating: 4.7
Author: colleen57

Golden Princess Cruise Review to South Pacific - Australia

colleen57

Contributor Level: Purser

Cruises: 4-6 cruises

Reviews: 2

Helpful Votes: 63

Overall rating:

4.7 out of 5

13 Night New Zealand (Melbourne Roundtrip)

Sail date: February 11, 2018

Ship: Golden Princess

Cabin type: Balcony

Cabin number: B604

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 6 years ago

Review summary

We enjoyed ourselves, meet some lovely people. We will definitely go on another one.

Embarkation

5 out of 5

Very smooth we went off early taking our own bags. I would definitely go this way again as was very quick and easy

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

5 out of 5

We loved the coffee club, great coffee and cakes, service was excellent. Our staff in the main dining room where lovely. Felt very spoiled each morning going to the buffet with everything prepared and waiting for us would be nice to have that at home.

Onboard Activities

5 out of 5

We went to trivia which was great fun. Tried our hand at bingo, staff made it fun. The gym Is well set up used a few times, loved that it was there for us. Went to a few different shows at night enjoyed the singing and dancing., Had a quiet drink in a couple of the bars. All in all very entertaining.

Entertainment

5 out of 5

we enjoyed a few stage shows.

Service and Staff

5 out of 5

Great service from all personnel

Ship Quality

5 out of 5

We talked about the ships layout and how it would have all been planned out. Ship was very clean

Cabin / Stateroom

3 out of 5

Cabin was clean. We felt it was on the small size. When we where on open sea the noise was almost unbearable. We couldn't sleep for two nights when sea was a bit rough. We thought about calling the 6000 number at night but what could they do? Most of the noise was right behind our heads when we where in bed.

Ship tip

Take a USA power point.

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Ports of call

Port Chalmers (Dunedin), New Zealand

5 out of 5

We did do the train excursion. Really enjoyed it, it was all done by volunteers and they did great job use from the train with magnificent thoroughly enjoyed

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Akaroa, New Zealand

5 out of 5

Walked around the shops and purchased a few things. Nice little town.

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Wellington, New Zealand Did not visit port

Been there before so did a few things on the ship

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Gisborne, New Zealand

4 out of 5

Went for a long walk on the beach front, weather was beautiful

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