Majestic Princess

The schedule itinerary of the cruise resulted in five sea days. A better routing could have eliminated 1-2 of them. Princess needs to audit the excursions they are offering and make sure the product description on their website is accurate and complete.

We loved the cruise, the formal dining room food and staff and our amazing room steward, Michael deserves a raise! He was outstanding!

The cruise gives you a great overview of New Zealand, but my husband and I should have done a land tour to give us more time to see New Zealand. So much more to see, but you are limited on time when you are cruising. Also, do NOT book your tours directly with Princess. They overcharge for their tours. We purchased out tours with and wth Viator. Note: Make sure your allow time to get back to the ship in time.

i do not believe Princess had adequately catered for 3500 Australian passengers. Specific beers, wines were frequently unavailable and inadequate seating in the Crown Grill bar. Frustratingly, one of the four elevators forward was out of action for the whole 22 day voyage, citing unable to get parts, despite stopping at sophisticated cities such as Shanghai, Hong Kong and Singapore. Numerous times elevators would bypass our deck, particularly when the Princess Theatre was being used.

A very interesting combination of ports. We had never been to 5 of them. A great preview for another trip. Ship was extremely smooth sailing. We had high winds one night and barely felt a twitch.