Beautiful Hawaii
Pride of America Cruise Review to Hawaii
7 Night Hawaii (Honolulu Roundtrip)
Sail date: January 07, 2017
Ship: Pride of America
Cabin type: Balcony
Cabin number: 11540
Traveled as: Couple
Reviewed: 7 years ago
Review summary
This cruise gave us an overview of Hawaii. We started our trip with a six day on our own stay on the big island of Hawaii. We loved our stay there but would not have had any idea about the other islands. Now we know that while the other islands we visited on the cruise each have great points about them, our heart is with the big island and we will return there for future trips to Hawaii next winter. We had a veranda and it was worth the extra cost because this ship is crowded especially for lounging around the pool. Our best excursions were to the seahorse farm in Kona and the gardens in Kauai. As far as the food was concerned it was great with especially good pineapple. Their coffee is so so and it isn't the good Hawaiian coffee we had on land. Their workout area does not allow for stretching or floor work at all. The large area that is used for classes could be left for people to use when class isn't in session. But it is locked up and there is no room anywhere else. There were also a lot of complaints about their "water policy". The security people as you boarded back after a day ashore made you either drink or pour out all liquids. They said it was not their policy but the ships. We felt this to be abuse especially since we had bought our water on the ship for our excursion. Be prepared for this to either chug or pour out. Some people had bought some type of plan to use the SPA area during the cruise and I can see that might be an advantage since the showers while good are tiny. All in all we enjoyed our introduction to Hawaii on this cruise.
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The pool deck area is very crowded. If not going ashore for the day use those hours to get to use that area. One day when we got back early from a shore excursion was the only time we used the SPAs around the pool.