PaTravelers Cruise Review on Pride of America on Oct 13, 2018

Pride of America Cruise Review

PaTravelers

Contributor Level: Second Mate

Review: 1

Helpful Votes: 16

Overall rating:

4 out of 5

Sail date: October 13, 2018

Ship: Pride of America

Reviewed: 6 years ago

Review summary

I’ve read so many bad reviews about the ship and to a certain degree I agree, if you are looking to go on a cruise with all the standard amenities associated with a cruise these days then this is not for you. HOWEVER, if you’re on the ship to see as much of Hawaii as you can, while spending as little time traveling between the islands as possible, then this is exactly the ship you want to be on. We stayed in an Oceanview cabin to keep the cost down knowing we were going to spend very little time on the ship during the day. We ate at the buffet as well as both main dining rooms along with the Cadillac grill. The food was not bad, not great, but not bad and I did find the breakfast to be very good at the buffet. The state rooms seem smaller than other ships. We spoke with many other couples on the cruise who had read negative reviews and some even said they thought of canceling, however, once they got on board they were glad they did as they got to see much more of Hawaii than they had expected in the week they were onboard. Why spend time in airports going island to island while also having to change hotel rooms? Almost to a person the people we spoke with didn’t understand how people could look at this cruise with everything written and think people would review it based on other cruises when in fact it is not a cruise, it’s a mobil hotel. Now that we’ve had the opportunity to visit a significant portion of Hawaii, the four main Islands, when we return and we plan to, we will probably stay at one location on Kauai or Maui for the entire time. But for our first trip together to Hawaii this, in our opinion, was the only way to go. Bottom Line: If you’re interested in seeing as much of Hawaii as possible then do not let all the negative reviews turn you away from taking Pride of America. Just remember you’re there to see Hawaii not to go on a cruise!

6 Comments

cruisereckoning 4 years ago

Thanks for the review

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graham123 6 years ago

Thx

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GinaJayCruisers 6 years ago

Thanks for your information, we are going for exactly the reason you stated! TO SEE ALL HAWAIIAN ISLANDS! We just came from Freedom of the Seas and we read a lot of bad reviews and they could not have been more wrong!!! Excellent cruise

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yailuv2cruise 6 years ago

Thank you, excellent review. This is exactly why we chose POA for our first visit to Hawaii in January 2019!

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CruisesbyChris 6 years ago

Well said.

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surfandsnorkel 6 years ago

The Cadillac grill is the best. It has the best cheese sticks. Lol. POA was our very first cruise. It did not disappoint.

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