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Sky Princess Cruise Review to Europe - Mediterranean

Cruises: 7+ cruises
Reviews: 5
Helpful Votes: 89

Overall rating:

3.9 out of 5
Sky Princess

7 Night Mediterranean (Rome Roundtrip)

Sail date: November 03, 2019

Ship: Sky Princess

Cabin type: Suite

Cabin number: E221

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 4 years ago

Review summary

Brand new ship with some problems. Our cabin had co start noises behind wall maki g difficult to sleep. Not much response from maintenance . Food choices could have been better. Usually Princess staffs new ship with best crews. Not necessarily the case here.

Embarkation

2 out of 5
Norovirus on ship. Embarkation delayed as we sat or stood in overcrowded lounge

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

3 out of 5
Buffet was mediocre at best. Food often cold and choices were limited. Never heard of any and we have over 70 cruises.

Onboard Activities

5 out of 5
Cruise staff for entertainment were great. Some we had sailed with before and were glad to see again. Lots of fun.

Entertainment

4 out of 5
Some good

Service and Staff

3 out of 5
Great cabin steward but Di I g room staff on a few occasions left much to desire. Bums rush attitude. Crown grill staff excellent.

Ship Quality

5 out of 5
Beautiful ship. Improved on Princess Live and Club 6

Cabin / Stateroom

5 out of 5
Mini suite we we always enjoy

Ports of call

Kotor, Montenegro

5 out of 5
Love this little city

Corfu, Greece Did not visit port

Been here before and did not feel like getting off

Valletta, Malta

5 out of 5
Beautiful old city. Want to visit again.

Messina, Sicily

5 out of 5
Love the clock tower at noon

Naples, Italy

1 out of 5
Total rain deluge made anything impossible.

Livorno (Florence & Pisa), Italy

5 out of 5
Took tour to Lucca and Pisa. Very enjoyable

Genoa, Italy

4 out of 5
Very windy, rainy day. Just walked along Port area. Had to cancel tour because of weather.

LA SEYNE-SUR-MER (TOULON), FRANCE

1 out of 5
Beautiful anchorage but too far away and available tours not interesting. Have to spend half time in transit.

Gibraltar (U.K.)

4 out of 5
Great shopping. Very crowded.

Barcelona, Spain

4 out of 5
Been here many times . Just walked Las Ramblas. Big demonstration going on for Women’s Rights.

Disembarkation

5 out of 5
Stayed on ship for next cruise
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5 Comments

javawoody    3 years ago

Thanks for the review and sharing your experience

RetiredRay    4 years ago

Looking forward to boarding in October, hope that the bugs are worked out.

Fiesta83    4 years ago

Glad you enjoyed your cruise despite the noise

AuntPinkie    4 years ago

Sometimes the early cruises on a new ship still have a lot of “growing pains”. We will be on the Sky in January, hopefully they will have all the glitches fixed! Thanks for sharing your experience!

Cruiserike0322    4 years ago

I hope the cruise was good as a whole

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