Overall a good experience
Island Princess Cruise Review to Alaska - Gulf of Alaska
7 Night Voyage Of The Glaciers Northbound (Vancouver To Anchorage)
Sail date: June 07, 2017
Ship: Island Princess
Cabin type: Suite
Cabin number: C230
Traveled as: Large Group
Reviewed: 7 years ago
Review summary
Princess does an excellent job with logistics; you never feel like you're spending all of your vacation standing in line. The crew is generally very friendly and helpful. The food is very good. We enjoyed all of our excursions and felt that Princess made good choices in the companies they worked with, even though we felt that some were more expensive than was warranted. We were celebrating a special birthday and we didn't really expect much so we weren't disappointed. The credit for the spa could only be used on a port day, and who stays on the ship on a port day?! We had a family member buy us a special breakfast in our room for the occasion; this included a coffee card for 15 free premium coffees. The problem was that we didn't get this until the day before disembarkation! These things were little, as was the "prize" we won of a crystal paperweight that had a koala bear and Australia etched on it - we were in Alaska! The only real complaint we had though was the bathroom in our stateroom. We paid the extra money for a mini-suite so that we would have a real bathtub/shower combo instead of the tiny shower in the regular rooms, and the tub was very narrow and had a low ceiling and for some reason the shower curtain was constantly blowing in against our bodies. The tub area was also moldy and rusty. My husband is not inclined to use Princess again because of the bathroom situation, but other than that we were mostly pleased.
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Ship tip
We chose anytime dining, thinking we could make reservations for our group of 7 each night. As it turned out there were 2 nights that they would not take reservations and the other nights they would only take them for certain times (I believe these were 5:30, 5:45, 7:30 and 7:45).
Ports of call
Vancouver (Canada Place), British Columbia
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