Fantastic Alaskan cruise

Item: Golden Princess
Rating: 3.9
Author: docspons

Golden Princess Cruise Review to Alaska - Gulf of Alaska

docspons

Contributor Level: Purser

Cruises: 4-6 cruises

Review: 1

Helpful Vote: 1

Overall rating:

3.9 out of 5

7 Night Voyage Of The Glaciers Southbound (Anchorage To Vancouver)

Sail date: July 06, 2019

Ship: Golden Princess

Cabin type: Suite

Traveled as: Large Group

Reviewed: 5 years ago

Review summary

My wife and I had a wonderful time and felt the nature of Alaska. This was our bucket list and we weren’t disappointed. Would do it again on a different ship

Embarkation

5 out of 5

Quick and easy

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

2 out of 5

Princess was nickel and diming is. We paid $800 for the drink package and we had to pay for bottle water and diet Sprite. Very upset with this. Not as much variety in the buffet. Main dining rooms were excellent.

Onboard Activities

5 out of 5

Played ping pong. Slot tournament. Shopping. Golf putting

Entertainment

5 out of 5

All the performers and shows were excellent

Service and Staff

5 out of 5

Excellent waiters all over the ship. Went out of their way to help us. Our room was always clean

Ship Quality

3 out of 5

The ship is old. Rusty on our balcony. Carpets were old over the ship along with the furniture

Cabin / Stateroom

3 out of 5

Clean because we had a good steward

Ship tip

Don’t buy drink package

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Ports of call

Whittier (Anchorage), Alaska

4 out of 5

Took the train to Skagway. Beautiful and very comfortable

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Cruise Hubbard Glacier

5 out of 5

Cruise Glacier Bay

5 out of 5

Skagway, Alaska

5 out of 5

Beautiful place. Went on train to the summit

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Juneau, Alaska

4 out of 5

Went and saw a musher and his dogs. Good time

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Ketchikan, Alaska

3 out of 5

Went and saw a local tribe. Felt this was a tourist trap.

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Vancouver (Canada Place), British Columbia

3 out of 5

Flew home from here

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Disembarkation

5 out of 5

Fast and easy

2 Comments

Shh813 5 years ago

Every ship with try and get you to spend money. You need to do better research on the drink packages, that sounds much too high wnere it doesn't even include water. Also, for your next trip to Alaska, go Celebrity Solstice. Best food, very best itinerary.

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bobduck1993 5 years ago

This is well worth the time,we did it back in 1997 and has said that we would do it again as well ,just haven't yet.Glad that the over all experience was positive

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