Newlove cruise on Royal Princess

Item: Royal Princess
Rating: 2
Author: newlovej

Royal Princess Cruise Review to Caribbean

newlovej

Contributor Level: Third Mate

Cruises: 7+ cruises

Reviews: 2

Helpful Votes: 77

Overall rating:

2 out of 5

Verified Review

Sail date: October 31, 2015

Ship: Royal Princess

Cabin type: Balcony

Cabin number: E440

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 8 years ago

Review summary

Overall rating of food was not good. Pastries were dried out and appeared old. Selections were limited if you do not eat sea food. Dining service was extremely slow. Food was tasteless. Buffet was extremely crowded due to slow service in dining rooms. Limited activities were available on board. Midship elevators were near our room but always crowded and there are no stairs available at midship. Dancing was in the Piazza which was a very small dance floor and not the right atmosphere for dancing. The Princess singers and dancers were very good but did not perform every night. Many activities were merely sales pitches to sell products or services. Shore excursion personnel were very curt and needed customer service training. Photos were very expensive and photo package deals did not allow any variation. Shore excursions were over-priced for value received.

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

1 out of 5

Onboard Activities

1 out of 5

Entertainment

3 out of 5

Children's Programs

3 out of 5

Service and Staff

3 out of 5

Ship Quality

5 out of 5

Cabin / Stateroom

5 out of 5

Cabin stewardess was very good. Cabin was kept immaculate and attendant was very cheerful. Size of cabin was similar to other cruises but balcony was much smaller. We had no obstruction to our balcony view which was very nice.

Ports of call

St. John's, Antigua

5 out of 5

Castries, St. Lucia

3 out of 5

Bridgetown, Barbados

3 out of 5

Basseterre, St. Kitts

3 out of 5

Ft. Lauderdale (Port Everglades), Florida

3 out of 5

Princess Cays (Cruise Line Private Island)

1 out of 5

Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas

5 out of 5

Roseau, Dominica

3 out of 5

St. George's, Grenada

3 out of 5

Bonaire, Netherlands Special Municipality

3 out of 5

Oranjestad, Aruba

5 out of 5

14 Comments

Gwbigdog 2 years ago

oops

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GLe96GZO5xidrIh0rgM8z0fQZ 8 years ago

we should have an enjoyable drink on the glorious ship with wonderful staff call royal princess :-)

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corallady9 8 years ago

We are on the same sailing, chefds7. Hubby and I plan on having a great time!

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GLe96GZO5xidrIh0rgM8z0fQZ 8 years ago

I'm leaving on royal princess in 9 days :-) I know I will have a great time on princess; like i always do!

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karenowen 8 years ago

yohapihs, there is always one in every crowd and obviously this is THE one. I don't think it would matter, if it was a cruise or dry land, they wouldn't be satisfied. we are going on Royal princess in June for the 1st time, but this will be our 7th princess cruise and all on different ships.

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corallady9 8 years ago

Love it!

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yohapihs 8 years ago

so must be good, right??

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corallady9 8 years ago

Yohapihs, this will be my second cruise on the Royal and my 8th on Princess.

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yohapihs 8 years ago

im glad a lot of you dont agree with 'newlivej' not a good review for someone flying to Fort Lauderdale from Sydney Australia and looking forward to cruising on Royal Princess.. Thanks

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corallady9 8 years ago

Sorry for the typos!

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GLe96GZO5xidrIh0rgM8z0fQZ 8 years ago

Maybe newlovej needs to stay off cruise ships all together

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corallady9 8 years ago

Unkess things chsnged drastically since my last Princess Cruise, I tenf to agree with thr others who hsve replied.

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karenowen 8 years ago

I agree russp

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russp 8 years ago

Wow, not my experience at all, maybe there's just no pleasing you.

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