Sun princess a new ship not ready to be sailed

Sun Princess Cruise Review to Europe - Mediterranean

Cruises: 2-3 cruises
Reviews: 2
Helpful Votes: 37

Overall rating:

3 out of 5
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Sun Princess

19 Night Best Of The Mediterranean (Rome Roundtrip)

Sail date: April 08, 2024

Ship: Sun Princess

Cabin type: Balcony

Cabin number: 12534

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 6 months ago

Review summary

To be fair to guests for the lack of entertainments, for missing promised high end activities and amenities, for charging unusual high cost for pier transits, high cost excursions, lack of food quality control, Sun princess should partially refund money to guests to compensate for their disappointments.

Embarkation

3 out of 5
smooth

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

2 out of 5
buffets is clean, food quality not as good as the other princess ships

Onboard Activities

2 out of 5
Park 19 (water slides and zip line) is not opened for guest

Entertainment

2 out of 5
overall rating at 2 stars due to Sun princess promised shows were not available on the 1st 10 days of cruising. For the following 9 days cruise, there was only one show 'pirate' quite OK.

Children's Programs

We traveled as couple, though I didn't see children's program on the daily schedule.

Service and Staff

3 out of 5
All personnel staff are courteous. I gave an overall rating of 3 stars due to the lack of leadership to direct the staff and deliver satisfying services. for example, staff in 'Eatery' are courteous and hardworking, but the food is somehow boring, somewhat salty and oily, everyday the same menu. Staff at guest service are well manners, but the excursions too expensives, the port /pier transits is guest's cost, etc...

Ship Quality

3 out of 5
The ship is clean and well maintained, the overall rating of 3 stars is for lack of promised amenities and shows

Cabin / Stateroom

4 out of 5
The room is comfy, though the usable space of balcony cabin is less than an oceanview cabin due to the balcony counts as space.

Ship tip

Don't book Sun princess for now, wait until Sun princess is more ready and has all their advertised amenities ready for enjoyment

Ports of call

Civitavecchia (Rome), Italy

3 out of 5
Too far and inconvenient to reach city center of airport

Corfu, Greece

4 out of 5

Kotor, Montenegro Did not visit port

Replace by BAR

Mykonos, Greece

4 out of 5
Beautiful but crowded

Santorini, Greece

3 out of 5
Beautiful but crowded, the wait of cable car to go down were too long, we ended up walking down

NAPLES (POMPEII), ITALY

3 out of 5

Gibraltar (U.K.)

3 out of 5

Cartagena, Spain

4 out of 5

Palma De Mallorca, Balearic Islands

4 out of 5

Barcelona, Spain

4 out of 5

Marseille (Provence), France

2 out of 5
Pier transit $16/pp

Genoa, Italy

4 out of 5

La Spezia, Italy

4 out of 5

Disembarkation

2 out of 5
Sun Princess shuttle bus for transit to airport is too expensive, the cost double up compare with outside providers
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7 Comments

BnCTcruising     1 month ago

Thanks for sharing.

Gwbigdog     6 months ago

Thanks for sharing your cruise

javawoody     6 months ago

Inaugural sailings never seem to live up to the hype.

Dumfy75     6 months ago

Great itinerary though, hope you at least enjoyed that.

cruising2004     6 months ago

Sorry this inaugural sailing was not up to par. Thank you for your review.

Flcruisepro     6 months ago

There's always bugs to work out on first cruises. As you said, it will probably get better after the crew gets up to speed with the new ship.

HeavySeas     6 months ago

Thanks for sharing

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