good itinerary to tour Hawaiian islands when on a budget.

Item: Pride of America
Rating: 3.4
Author: yuxuanz

Pride of America Cruise Review to Hawaii

yuxuanz

Contributor Level: Deck Hand

Cruises: 1 cruise (first)

Review: 1

Helpful Votes: 19

Overall rating:

3.4 out of 5

Verified Review

7 Night Hawaii (Honolulu Roundtrip)

Sail date: August 19, 2023

Ship: Pride of America

Cabin type: Inside

Cabin number: 8707

Traveled as: Large Group

Reviewed: 1 year ago

Review summary

It is a good cruise for a quick visit to Hawaiian islands. It's convenient and economical.

Embarkation

5 out of 5

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

3 out of 5

Buffet and Liberty restaurant are good, consistent in quality. Skyline restaurant's food quality and service varies dramatically. Among 3 dinners and one breakfast, one dinner was so awful to the point that the meals were inconsumable because of over salted and overcooked shrimps and well-done ribeye steak( paid $30 for it). The servers for 2 nights' were rude( we had a table of 8). The servers had an attitude like they didn't like to have so many customers to serve and food orders came out slow. East Meet West is a completely disappointment. The name of the restaurant sounds like Asian food gets come Western twist or vise verse. But instead, the menu tries to provide Asian dishes but with a complete disaster. Most of the Chinese dishes are so off and taste strange and unpleasant. The waitress served all the same appetizers in one dish which were supposed to be in separate orders. We ended up to have to separate them one order by one order by ourselves. We are a big group with people from different families and had placed ordered individually. Therefore orders shouldn't have been served mixed together.

Onboard Activities

3 out of 5

Jacuzzi, Ping-pong. The pool is too small.

Entertainment

3 out of 5

Magic show is good. kind of disappointed to not have any musical theater show and good movies.

Service and Staff

3 out of 5

Except for couple servers at Skyline restaurant, most of the service I received from room stewards and ship personnel are great.

Ship Quality

3 out of 5

Cabin / Stateroom

3 out of 5

Cabin number was changed to 4106. it is in good overall. but the cleaning service is not detailed with some of days that the trash under the sink was omitted. All trash bins having no liners makes me worry about the sanitariness of the room overall.