Kids take over all the pools

Item: Sun Princess
Rating: 4.5
Author: NatalieRS

Sun Princess Cruise Review

NatalieRS

Contributor Level: Purser

Cruises: 1 cruise (first)

Review: 1

Helpful Votes: 7

Overall rating:

4.5 out of 5

15 Night Indonesia (Fremantle Roundtrip)

Sail date: December 23, 2019

Ship: Sun Princess

Traveled as: Large Group

Reviewed: 4 years ago

Review summary

If you want a peaceful holiday, don’t go during school holidays. Too many kids taking over the pools unsupervised. The adults only pool was either out of order or too crowded due to its tiny size. Be nice to have one of the main pools for only adults. It’s not fair on people who don’t have kids.

Embarkation

5 out of 5

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

5 out of 5

Onboard Activities

4 out of 5

Entertainment

4 out of 5

Service and Staff

5 out of 5

Ship Quality

4 out of 5

Cabin / Stateroom

5 out of 5

Ports of call

Makassar, Sulawesi, Indonesia

1 out of 5

Semarang, Java, Indonesia

5 out of 5

Komodo Island, Indonesia

5 out of 5

Bali, Indonesia

5 out of 5

Lombok Island, Indonesia

3 out of 5

Fremantle (Perth), Australia

5 out of 5

Disembarkation

5 out of 5

9 Comments

Seadogcruising 4 years ago

I might also add that I was on the same cruise as the reviewer and the main pool was generally empty.

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Seadogcruising 4 years ago

It’s common sense that there would be children on a cruise during school holidays. They paid for their cruise also. Maybe you should sail on Viking cruises

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Cindyann 4 years ago

I agree about the kids 😊

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cruisereckoning 4 years ago

Thank you for the review, we are always careful about when we pick dates for our cruise.

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Cruiserike0322 4 years ago

Nice review, good advice of when to go

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CruzeFan 4 years ago

Never cruise during the holidays if you don’t want children aboard. The other options are to try Crystal, Symphony, Seabourn, Regent Seven Seas or Viking which have fewer or no children.

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1960cruiser 4 years ago

If you dont like kids using the pools, well unfortunately that's too bad, their parents paid for those kids, so they have just as much right to it as you do. I will agree that too many kids in pool is a bummer, but that's they way it is. Also, in case you didnt know, Australia's summer is North Americas winter. So if you cruise during that time, kids are out of school.

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jess2020 4 years ago

Oooo we are doing this cruise this year but on sea princess !! Do you have any info on the ports you visited ? Any good tours you recommend ? Or don’t recommend getting off at? Also do you no if your allowed to get off the ship if your not doing a princess booked tour ? Thanks 😊

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Poolie 4 years ago

I agree about kids! I check the country's that I'm leaving from, to make sure there are no holidays!

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