Sapphire Princess Cruise Reviews - Reviews

Relaxing cruise. Princess Cruise Line offered excellent cruise excursions. Beautiful ship design. Lots of great dining available for dinner. Friendly and competent staff available to help all the time.

Ushuaia is very beautiful and the highlight of this route.

Great cruise. I found some towns that I would enjoy returning to for a longer visit

This was the best cruise in 29 years of cruising, My agent, Donnie Brummer, got me exactly what I wanted for a cabin. The trip was phenomenal! Best excursion I have ever experienced was the Princess excursion in Montevideo - The best of Montevideo and Wine tasting tour. Good solid city tour, but the winery had exceptional wine, OUTSTANDING food, and the TWO floor shows. A Tango show that rivaled any of the clubs in Buenos Aires and then another show all about Carnival, A unique experience I will treasure forever. OH, and Antartica was great too. hahahahaha, seriously, we were fortunate and saw everything I wanted to see, and expected/hoped to see and experience.

We really enjoyed the cruise. Weather dictates what you will on a cruise to Antarctica, but the captain make a genuine effort to allow us to see as much as possible while keeping the ship safe and on schedule.

I enjoyed seeing Antarctica and passing Drakes Passage in a larger ship was great. Onboard activities were consistent. Food was passable, but nothing to right home about. Very limited options for people with food allergies. Ship had no diet coke (or other diet caffeinated soda).

Cruise was good, getting on and getting off was a disaster

Elite members no longer have 250 free minutes of Internet. Instead they give you half off of an Internet package. In other words you are now forced to buy a package if you want to have any access to the Internet. In the past I used to use my 250 and my wife’s 250 (500 total) to get a thru a week of our Internet needs. Now I have to pay extra. And for what? The Internet stunk. Very, very, very slow, but that is to be expected when you have download speeds of 1.5meg and 2,000 people accessing the line. And everyone is trying to send pictures back home! Guest services. In the past guest services always had 2 lines, one for Suites and Elites, and the other for everyone else. If you were in the elite line, anyone of the 6 or so guest services reps would call on you, making it quite fast to get your issues resolved. Not anymore! Now there is a person at the end of the counter with a sign that says suites and elites, and he’s the only one handling it. All the other reps handle everyone else. There are no queuing lines so it’s a real cluster F as to who will get called on. Bottom line don’t get in the elite line as it’s the slowest moving. Wine: Previously on trips longer than 7 days, in addition to the full booze package, Princess offered discounted bottles of wine. They offered like 7, 9, 11 or 14 or more bottles. It averaged out to around $20 per bottle and you could select bottles from the menu, up to $30. There were typically at least 3 whites and 3 reds. If you saw a $35 bottle that you wanted to try, you just paid the extra $5 (or any price of $30). NOT ANY MORE! I was really planning on this for our trip to Antarctica because I’m not going to buy a 33 day booze package for over $2,100, but Princess no longer offers this. Booze package only, take it or leave it. And now if you just want to buy a bottle of wine, the cheapest red or white I could find on the menu was $40. That’s for Canyon Road which sells for $6.79 at Total Wines. You would be far better off buying a case and paying the $15 corking fee on each bottle! Television: Only a few channels available but much better than in the past. In the past pretty much the only news you could get was via BBC. On this cruise we had MSNBC, CNBC and Fox, and so I was very happy with that. They also had a number of good movies on demand.

Find a different ship or upgrade its level of quality.

Service was excellent -a bit disappointed in food . Expecting more Hawaiian dishes or a Luau . Came home with a rough case of Covid but at least it didn’t happen during the cruise . Several rooms on our floor were locked in for days I felt so bad for them .

well worth the price. We just wanted to get away and relax. with the onboard cruise credits and casino free play, we probably broke even.

We will be booking Princess from now on whenever is possible, this cruise was so great that now all I want to do is cruise vacations- very relaxing and carefree.

The overview of the 15-day Hawaiian cruise is excellent. We highly recommend to those who aim at a good vacation of relaxation, as there are 9 days at sea. We consider that we have plenty of things to do on the ship. As for the shore excursions, usually we spent half a day to know the islands, though superficially. Yet, there will be always revisits! There are more seniors on the ship, a lot in wheelchairs, walkers and canes, couples helping each other. Once the tour bus driver asked about people who celebrated their anniversaries, and the 45-50 anniversary group is the most. One lady even shouted out 63 ( years)! A very heartwarming experience to share the happiness with fellow teammates! ❤️❤️❤️

Overall great trip. Crew was fantastic! I'll go again!

Good times! Can’t wait to go again! We loved the areas we visited. Easy to get around and find our way back. When we we’re on the ship we didn’t ever have a negative experience!

One of our best cruises! My wife, who was hesitant about signing up for this cruise, said she would do it again in a heartbeat!

The fact that Normandy was cancelled ruined the trip.

This cruise was to see Northern light and we all got to see it. I feel very privileged. We are from Texas so not much chance to see them. One of the best cruises.

Interesting cities were visited. Saw the Northern Lights from the ship. Snowy weather.

Loved our summer 2019 cruise to Norway! The ship, food, staff, and excursions were all fabulous! Our travel agent, Deanna, booked our dream vacation!