Fun trip, but with older crowd.

Royal Princess Cruise Review to Europe - Mediterranean

Cruises: 4-6 cruises
Reviews: 3
Helpful Votes: 132

Overall rating:

4 out of 5
Royal Princess

21 Night Grand Mediterranean Adventure (Barcelona Roundtrip)

Sail date: September 30, 2017

Ship: Royal Princess

Cabin type: Balcony

Cabin number: B710

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 7 years ago

Review summary

The ports and the ship's food kind of spoiled for me on this trip. The food was un-inspire overall and most ports are way over develop and become a tourist traps. Maybe we like traveling on roads less travel and cruise are the exact opposite. But we can save cruise trips for families or friends in big groups.

Embarkation

5 out of 5
It's was fast and easy.

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

3 out of 5
We have been on 5 cruises, including Princess to Alaska and I find this ship's food is the most low quality and boring. Most dinner was un-inspire. The Crown Grill (specialty restaurant) was just not that good, our ribeye and lobster was not much better than steak and lobster night in the main dinning hall (very disappointed) we normally do 2 specialty dinner, this time once was enough. We saw what people had at the seafood restaurant, the portions look tiny, it use to be $29 for all you can eat, not longer :-(. I can get better deals back home.

Onboard Activities

4 out of 5
We used the fitness center many days. No rock climbing walls. Movies under the star was nice.

Entertainment

3 out of 5
Some of the acts was a little old, I guess it fits the crowd.

Service and Staff

5 out of 5
As good as you expect from most cruises. No surprises.

Ship Quality

5 out of 5
Love that they request guests wash their hand before buffets. Most common area seems clean.

Cabin / Stateroom

4 out of 5
Nice room size, the decoration could use a little update. It was clean as you expected. No complains.

Ship tip

Skip the specialty restaurants, it's no longer worth it in quality and quantity.

Ports of call

Barcelona, Spain

4 out of 5
Easy to reach the city center by the port on your own. Don't need ship excursions.

Toulon, France

4 out of 5
Easy to reach the city center by the port on your own. Don't need ship excursions.

FLORENCE/PISA, ITALY

4 out of 5
Arrange excursion on own own. Very easy to reach Pisa.

Mykonos, Greece

3 out of 5
Too touristy, wouldn't go again. or go on my own to visit less touristy island.

Santorini, Greece

3 out of 5
Too touristy, wouldn't go again. or go on my own to visit less touristy island. What a tourist trap and all it's tourist junks.

Naples, Italy

4 out of 5
Interesting tour to Pompeii. Sorrento is a total tourist trap.

Civitavecchia (Rome), Italy

3 out of 5
The port is too far from Roma, the excursion was too expensive to see not much. We tour Roma after the cruise and spend 4 days there and even that was not enough time. Day trip to Roma is a joke.

Kotor, Montenegro

5 out of 5
Our favorite port out of the cruise. It's not over develop like most islands in Greece, there's still charms here without all the tourist junks at every shop. Would like to spend few more days here on our own in the near future.

Disembarkation

4 out of 5
It was fast, easy and simple like it is suppose to be.

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1 Comment

GIL155    7 years ago

Seems like you have your own solution for future cruising. Not for you alone, but yes if with family and/or friends. Sounds reasonable.