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Ruby Princess Cruise Review to Coastal - West Coast

Cruises: 4-6 cruises
Review: 1
Helpful Votes: 39

Overall rating:

3 out of 5
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Ruby Princess

7 Night California Coastal (Los Angeles Roundtrip)

Sail date: November 01, 2015

Ship: Ruby Princess

Cabin type: Balcony

Cabin number: C618

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 9 years ago

Review summary

Princess did an outstanding job of handling embarkation and disembarkation, not as good a job of handling the 3000 passengers on board.  Ship felt over crowded.  For example, twice, we were not able to be seated in the 8:00 p.m. evening show in the Princess Theater, even when getting there 10 minutes or more before curtain time.  A third time we had to be separated to get seats.  One time we were there 30 minutes early, got decent seats and then got to watch some other passengers falling asleep around us.  A lot of the staff had poor English language skills and could not answer simple questions.  On the plus side, our assigned dinning room waiters were very good as was our stateroom attendant.  The food was very good, with some servings being excellent. 

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

5 out of 5

Onboard Activities

1 out of 5

Entertainment

1 out of 5

Children's Programs

3 out of 5

Service and Staff

3 out of 5

Ship Quality

1 out of 5

Cabin / Stateroom

3 out of 5
When seas were unsettled, the cabin was noisy. The panels squeaked all night. We reported it the next day and a man came to look at it but said he couldn't do anything unless he was there when noise was happening. And, of course, it didn't happen again because seas were calm after that. Also, air conditioning was unresponsive to controls, very hot stateroom when we came on board. Otherwise, cabin small but nice and the balcony is huge!!

Ship tip

Set at waiter Juan's table if possible in Di Vince dinning room.

Ports of call

San Pedro (Los Angeles), California

1 out of 5

San Francisco, California

5 out of 5

Santa Barbara, California

3 out of 5

San Diego, California

5 out of 5

Ensenada, Mexico

3 out of 5
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2 Comments

Gwbigdog    2 years ago

Thanks for sharing your cruise.

kenospizza    9 years ago

we went to all the shows on our Alaska cruise in August. full ship. We usually got to showroom at least hslf hour early. had a few drinks before show started.

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