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Ruby Princess Cruise Review to Alaska

Cruises: 4-6 cruises
Review: 1
Helpful Votes: 16

Overall rating:

3.4 out of 5
Ruby Princess

10 Night Alaska Inside Passage (San Francisco Roundtrip)

Sail date: May 20, 2022

Ship: Ruby Princess

Cabin type: Suite

Cabin number: E731

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 2 years ago

Review summary

Typical experience but high levels of Covid so they need to go back to requiring masks and no self serve food.

Embarkation

3 out of 5
Long Line but moved quickly. Took about 90 minutes to check in

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

3 out of 5
I ended up with Covid in isolation for 7 of the 10 day cruise. Food always got to me cold. The salads were good. Pasta and meat not so much. I was surprised they were allowing self serve in buffet area with no masks required for cruisers.

Onboard Activities

4 out of 5
I got to see one show before I got Covid. It was good and music on the ship was good.

Entertainment

I was in isolation

Children's Programs

No kids

Service and Staff

5 out of 5
By far the highlight of our cruise was the guest services person assigned to me and my husband while in isolation. They went out of their way to check in and try to get me anything we needed.

Ship Quality

4 out of 5
Clean and well laid out.

Cabin / Stateroom

4 out of 5
The cabin I booked and got to spend 3 days in was great. Very quiet, with large balcony. Everything worked well. My isolation room - A338 - was also quiet but the motion lights blinked on and off constantly. Because of Covid, they refused to fix it.

Ship tip

Wear a mask, get vaccinated and boostered, relax and have fun

Ports of call

San Francisco, California

4 out of 5

Icy Strait Point (Hoonah), Alaska Did not visit port

Ran late and could not dock

Haines, Alaska

3 out of 5
Small, not a lot to do but nice scenery

Juneau, Alaska Did not visit port

I was in isolation

CRUISE ENDICOTT ARM & DAWES GLACIER

1 out of 5
Ran late so didn’t get to see glacier - very disappointed

Prince Rupert, British Columbia Did not visit port

I was in isolation

Disembarkation

1 out of 5
Isolated customers were brought to a dining room. There was about 100 of us. They did not feed us breakfast or lunch and wasn’t let off until almost noon. There were only seven cars for about 100 of us to bring us home or to our hotels to isolate. It was total chaos.
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