Grand Princess

Pros: Flawless embarkation/disembarkation, well organized shore excursions. The ship rarely feels crowded.
Cons: Food, food, and food! Inadequate seating in the Princess Theater.

More often than not, we choose a cruise primarily based on the itinerary. Next comes the price, and a close third would be the Cruise Line itself, although there are a couple NOT on our list of desirables. We are not particularly loyal when it comes to ...

Pros: Excellent, friendly service. Passengers kept well-informed. Clean, well-maintained ship.
Cons: Constant "pushing" to buy products and drinks. Entertainment and cruise director's staff.

Introduction We took the Grand Princess on a 7 day cruise to the Eastern Caribbean (from F ...

Pros: Excellent service, beautiful view, great food, tons of activities.
Cons: Flight reservation frustrations...

I was on the Grand Princess 7-day Caribbean cruise in mid-February. I was very pleased with the cruise overall. In fact, I loved it. It was the best 7 consecutive days I've had.


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Pros: Superior shops and services; Highly professional and unobtrusive staff; "Personal Choice" dining options
Cons: Ship needs refurbishing; Activity schedule geared toward older passengers

If my husband and I had not sailed on the "Star" and "Golden," sister ships to the "Grand Princess," we may have been disappointed in the appearance of this ship and its activity schedule. We were on the "Star" in March 2002 for her maiden voyage to the ...

Pros: ship size, layout, cabins, service
Cons: itinerary, pastries

In order to obtain my certification as an accredited cruise counselor, I had to visit many, many ships, and cruise on several of them. Selecting this ship to fulfill my longer cruise length requirement was an easy choice. Both the Grand Princess and...

Pros: Good food, great service, excellent value, a couple of wonderful shore trips.
Cons: Disembarkation took hours, sub-par entertainment, problem with tenders, smoke issues, perpetuating the tanzanite scam.

This is a review of our Western Caribbean cruise out of Galveston, TX on January 27, 2007. I'm Al, she's Josie. EMBARKATION: We arrived around 2:30 p.m. and were aboard ship within ten minutes. The combination of a passport and boarding pass (printed ...

Pros: Great Service. My husband and I felt like a King And Queen.
Cons: It was our first Cruise so everything seemed perfect to us.

I got married 02/02/02. My mother bought my husband and I a Cruise for a wedding gift. Neither of us had never been on a cruise before so we didn't no what ship to go on. we went to a travel agent and she recommended the Grand Princess because we wanted...

Pros: Great itinerary, good food and choices in dining rooms.
Cons: Service can be uneven at times, food in buffet area is weak.

Introduction: In late May and early June I was on a 10-day Baltic cruise with Princess Cruises traveling with my father and sister. This was my fifth cruise with Princess. The cruise both embarked and disembarked in Copenhagen, Denmark. The ...

Pros: Entertainment, Food, Cabin, Embarkation
Cons: Costa Maya, Some of the dining room service, Lack of creativity in vegetarian entrees

Before I give my review of the ship, I guess I should tell you about the people I traveled with: I sailed with my fiancee, and a couple we are good friends with, and we are all in our early 20's. My fiancee has been on several other cruises with ...

Pros: Good ports to visit. Desserts are very pretty (but absolutely tasteless).
Cons: Filthy rooms, poor food, extremely poor bar service. Extremely poor internet service.

Notice that the mass majority of the reviews here were written before the Princess line was bought by the new ownership. This review applies to the cruise ship as run by it's new owners. My daughter 27 and I, 52, love to travel. We usually travel ...

Pros: great entertainment, very clean and beautiful, excellent size, great staff and food
Cons: maybe the price?

The Grand Princess is a fabulous ship, and one of the best cruises I have been on. Me and my fami ...

Pros: Pampered feeling
Cons: Older age group

My trip on the Grand Princess took place in February, 1999. We went for the 7-day Eastern Carribean package, at a price of about $1149/person for an outside cabin + we did our own airfare from BWI to Florida.

The only other cruise I had been...

Pros: Fresh water pools, Personal Choice Dining,
Cons: Tour Excursions are expensive, very small drawer storage spaces in the cabin

We took our trip on the Grand Princess during Thanksgiving week (November, 2002). My husband and I had been on 2 cruises with Carnival prior to coming aboard the Grand Princess, so we had an idea of what cruising was like, just not with Princess. Our...

Pros: Balcony rooms, beautiful neon-less ship, Personal choice dining, and tables for two!!
Cons: Ship is HUGE (can get lost), entertainment & buffet could be improved.

As an avid cruiser on Royal Caribbean and Carnival, I was really looking forward to our first Princess cruise. I had heard that it was great and their ship and service were top notch. I am pretty particular when classifying things "top-notch" and so ...

Pros: Beautiful Ship, Great crew, Good Food, Nice Room, one great act on board!
Cons: Ports are not great, No pool towels, Expensive excursions, Don't bother with Painted Desert

Let me start by telling you who we are, My husband and I are in our 40's and we have been on 4 cruises. This was our Second Princess cruise and although we loved it .. we have some advise for those who choose this ship. I am a College Director of...