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Regal Princess Cruise Review to Caribbean - Western

Cruises: 2-3 cruises
Reviews: 5
Helpful Votes: 146

Overall rating:

4.9 out of 5
Regal Princess

7 Night Western Caribbean (Ft. Lauderdale Roundtrip)

Sail date: January 15, 2017

Ship: Regal Princess

Cabin type: Balcony

Traveled as: Family (older children)

Reviewed: 7 years ago

Review summary

This boat was beautiful! Everything is clean! Service is top notch! I would point out that if you are a younger crowd looking to party and attend the comedy clubs that are a little bit naughty this is not the boat for you.

Embarkation

5 out of 5
We were really surprised at how fast we arrived on boat. We arrived and the line was long but moved fast! Luggage was all delivered to our room by time the muster drill was done.

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

5 out of 5
The food in the main dining area was really good. The service was fast and very friendly. The buffet had a wide range of different ethnic foods to please all. They have the BEST pizza restaurant on board. They do serve more than pizza and they also serve brunch. There gelato is delicious! We were able to use our cafe card to buy our gelato but I believe they got rid of that option recently. I was told you can save your cafe card if you didn't use it up for an up coming trip on Princess as well. The grill out by pool has really good veggie burgers and the best fries! They also have a pretty good selection of food on the room service menu.

Onboard Activities

4 out of 5
Pools were nice. They were hardly ever crowded. Water was warm. At night they have a pretty light show by pools. They do show movies at night by pool but we never attended. Our favorite entertainment was their version of The Voice. It's pretty fun to see all the awesome talent in the boat! We saw 2 comedy shows. They were ok. The shows are catered to an older crowed. They rest of our family who was with us were disappointed because they are young and it wasn't funny to them. Not much entertainment for younger crowd. We did live bingo! You can win a lot of money. Seems like everyone who won used the tablets instead of the paper.

Service and Staff

5 out of 5
This boat has a very good system! You would notice the crew did everything in a routine. Boat was always clean! We never ran into one rude staff member. Our room Stewart was friendly and always had our room cleaned twice a day!

Ship Quality

5 out of 5
Shops are nice. They offer some pretty good items. They even did huge sales.

Cabin / Stateroom

5 out of 5
Having a balcony was so nice! The room was a good size. I liked the closet area. Big enough for all our stuff. Bathroom is your typical cruise boat bathroom. Everything was clean. There were enough plug ins in bathroom and vanity by bed. T.V was nice and they offered newer movies to watch.

Ship tip

If your looking to save money, have everyone in your party 21 and older bring a bottle of wine/champagne on board. Ask room service for wine glasses and fill your own glasses to take to dinner with you. Also, my husband and I bought the picture package. So any picture with one of us in it was included in the price. Since we had our entire family with us, we took a lot of group pictures. They print enough pictures for each person to have one but we took them all and gave them to our family members so they didn't have to pay.

Ports of call

Ft. Lauderdale (Port Everglades), Florida

5 out of 5
We had time to fill until our flight left so we did the Everglades tour and the Flamingo park. It was a good excursion.

Princess Cays (Cruise Line Private Island)

5 out of 5
This place was my favorite part of the trip. Us girls immediately went snorkeling. It's best to go as soon as you get there before everyone starts swimming. Water is clearer. Good amount of fish to see. Water is so clear and clean. The lounge chairs are comfortable. Mixed drinks are good. The boys did the shore fishing excursion. They caught and released some cool looking fish. The fishing equipment was old, cheap, and barely worked. We also rented the paddle boards. They rope off an area for you to use. Food was good and included in trip. Buffet style. They have veggie burgers!

Grand Turk Island

5 out of 5
We didn't do any excursions. There is a lot of shopping there. The beach seemed more crowded and longe chairs fill up fast. We ended up on other side of dock. No fee to sit at lounge chairs with canopy. Little food shack/bar right there. Mixed drinks are good food was ok. Really good snorkeling in that area. Not much people on the other side of dock. There are a ton of reefs in that are!

George Town, Grand Cayman

5 out of 5
We got a taxi and had them drop us off at 7 mile beach. They took us to the very end and less popular area. We were very disappointed. I think we were by the sewer pipes. It smelled! You have to pay to sit in there chairs and they were very old, plastic and uncomfortable.

Cozumel, Mexico

5 out of 5
We loved cozumel! We took a taxi 2 miles down town were all the shopping is. We found ourselves at The Thirsty Cougar bar/restaurant. Drinks were delicious and food was awesome!

Disembarkation

5 out of 5
Disembarkation was smooth. We had a huge group and we had no problems.
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2 Comments

AWashoe    7 years ago

GIL155    7 years ago

Glad you enjoyed the Regal Princess. Agree about the partying, not so sure about the naughty comment. An awful lot of senior cititens are NOT visited by Santa.