Island Princess Cruise Reviews - Reviews

A very nice cruise. Going thru the Panama Canal locks is an experience. It is amazing this canal was built over 100 years ago with technology available then and that it is still doing the job as well today as when it opened. It is a monument to the people who designed and built it. One hopes that the new locks, which are designed to conserve some of the fresh water necessary to lift/lower the ships, will last as long and be as reliable as the original.

Overall the positives outweighed the negatives as we both enjoyed the people we met on the cruise and the experience itself.

Overall the cruise was fun. I would recommend it.

We had a very enjoyable time. Meet great people and loved the evening bands and dancing the evening away.

Great cruise. Ship was nice. Great food. Showers in cabin were too small.

Not a princess cruise fan but they had a veterans appreciation event on board and all veterans were shown appreciation for their service.

We took this cruise to gain familiarity with ship prior to planned world cruise aboard in 2021. We were pleased.

Left port 11+ hours late due to propulsion motor problem and changed itinerary from Juneau to Prince Rupert B C ...not much to do in this port. Greater compensation for changed itinerary ..

Loved this ship, clean, bright and well kept. Food and drink were great! Shows were ok.

This cruise totally exceeded our expectations!! We have only positive memories & experiences from this trip. Highly recommend Princess and the Island Princess.

Awesome sights. The boat had plenty of inside windows to look out if you didn't want to stroll the deck in the chilly wind.

Spectacular cruise with great scenic location. The perfect size ship for relaxing. Definitely not a cruise for kids.

I would sail on the Island Princess again. Excursion staff, food service staff, and cabin staff were amazingly good. Desk staff left a great deal to be desired. Not a great value, dollar for dollar; won't book balcony TBA again. Have had larger inside cabins. Marginalization of smokers still a sore spot; excuse of "worldwide trend" threadbare at best.

Wonderful itinerary, great crew and beautiful ship

It was a relaxing cruise overall, glaciers were quite amazing. Beautiful and awesome scenery.

My first cruise was incredible. The scenery in Alaska was majestic and the ship board experience was much more than I imagined. I had a wonderful balance of relaxing on the ship, top notch entertainment and excellent customer service to help me feel pampered.

overall a great vacation/cruise, both land and sea! Service was impeccable! Two issues were lost luggage which was later found and huge over charge at jewelry store Effy aboard trip. Do not buy anything on board ship!

We took this cruise on January 29.2019. Our room (E315) grunted loudly when the boat was in motion. We couldn't sleep. When I told the girl at the service desk she said nothing could be done and there weren't any other rooms available. I had to call every morning at 8 to get dinner reservations. I have severe acid reflux and cannot eat after 7 PM. Every day at 8 AM the girl told me there were no reservations available until 7:30 and I would have to stand in the line. When we stood in the line and waited for a table there were many empty tables in the room, so the girl lied to me. We were told by a waiter that princess added 250 passenger capacity to the boat and the restaurant couldn't handle it. That also explains why we had to get to the theater 45 minutes before the show to get a seat. If we arrived 10-15 minutes before the show it was standing room only. We booked three tours through Princess. The tour of Cartagena was fabulous. The tour of the new Panama Canal locks and Fort San Lorenzo was horrible, dangerous, and should be discontinued. Princess gave us a 40% refund on that tour. They should have refunded the cruise. We were exposed to fighting by locals around our bus, racing the wrong way into traffic by our driver, and an hours-long delay waiting to get back across the canal on a ferry boat. The boat & train ecotour in Costa Rica was safe but bad. We saw no wildlife on the train spent more time going through an industrial area than it spent in the jungle. Except for one sloth, the wildlife we saw on the boat was the same I have in my backyard in Florida.

This cruise a fun time with friends! It seemed targeted for older adults.

We loved having extra days at sea on this cruise. We relaxed, watched movies, played cards with friends and explored the ship.