Sky Princess is a beautiful and comfortable cruise. However what "lured" us to the TA portion of FLT to S Hampton was the whole "Moroccan Grand adventure" and that turned out to be a bust as the captain skipped the port, as well as La Coruña port, and in return gave us a meek $100- for missing both ports. It totally felt like deceptive advertising, even if it was for safety, then do not advertise so boldly featuring the Spice market in Marrakech, or make a much better compensation for missing the ports - we were not "cheap" clients and spent on Princess Plus Package, Spa packages, specialty restaurants, for nothing in return. We were even 2-3 days at sea with no wifi, with no reasonable explanation at all- seems to me Princess do not respect passengers on for TA portion, but we went for the whole 28 days. Also pretty boring in entertainment.
Embarkation
4 out of 5
All went smooth
Ship experiences
Food and Dining
3 out of 5
Overall great looking ship as all was new- food was average
Onboard Activities
2 out of 5
Maybe not our type of crowd but activities were boring
Entertainment
We did not go to an of the entertainment
Children's Programs
No children
Service and Staff
4 out of 5
Ship Quality
5 out of 5
Beautiful ship - areas were cleaned and well maintained
Cabin / Stateroom
4 out of 5
Cabin very comfortable with great utilization of space to fit a lot of clothes and accommodate toiletries in bath
Ship tip
Our cabin location was great mid ship on 12 th floor
Cruise cancelled the port claiming storm ahead and wanting to be "ahead of the storm" to make it on time to S Hampton and pick up rest of passengers. Explanation did not seem satisfactory and the whole advertising was precisely "Moroccan adventure" Only gave us a meek $100- credit for missing the port
Cruise cancelled the port claiming storm ahead and wanting to be "ahead of the storm" to make it on time to S Hampton and pick up rest of passengers. Explanation did not seem satisfactory . Guests that got off in S Hampton were totally disappointed for missing Santiago Compostela. Only gave us a meek $100- credit for missing Morocco and Coruna ports
Got to port Thu evening vs Saturday claiming to get ahead of storm. The cruise did provide free shuttles to center of S Hampton but nothing to do there - we took train to London. Weather was cold rainy miserable. Did take excursion next day to Stonehenge and Salisbury which was good, but also horrible weather
Our favorite stop in Costa del Sol- took tour to nearby Marbella- one of the most beautiful cities we've seen- then back to Malaga to walk in town, beautiful and great weather!
Another great little stop- we were standing in a horrible line to take cable car up to see the Macaco monkeys, but turned around and took 6 people passenger taxi van that toured us all over, including up to the monkeys, as well as Michaels' cave and several view spots- totally worth it. Don't waste your time with cable car-only one one going and one coming and kind of dirty- nothing cool about it- Madeira cable car was stunning by contrast!
Even though dampy, rainy cold, beautiful City- visited Guggenheim on our own which was great, then walked the City and went to local "pinxtos" tapas stop- awesome!
A bit messy to get to the coach bus to take us to Heathrow airport-tight flight, but poor driver alone to handle all luggage, then drove very slow... we thought we would miss flight
If you are unhappy about missing ports due to safety concerns…you might check your passenger contract and see if are entitled to any compensation at all. Could be that nothing at all is required to be given as compensation.
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