Saturday, December 3, 2022

Diamond Princess back in service - my review

 Diamond Princess is back in service. My 20 day cruise has only about 1100 passengers and the same amount of crew.  Here’s the good and not so good

Cabins

Smaller than most other Princess older ships

Very comfortable beds

Lights near the bed and washroom come on automatically 

As always the cabin steward is excellent 

Love that they added the extra charging usbs by the bed to the light stand

Food

The food is ok in the buffet but repetitive 

There is no international cafe. 

The pacific moon restaurant has the best ambiance 

Dinner food is usually quite good but so many shrimp dishes

The omelettes are very good

Ship layout 

Same as the other ships , with lots of self laundries 

Love the deck on 7 - kept nice and wider than the other

They have closed the front of the ship on 14 - not good when coming into port


Staff

Friendly 

Some responsive and some useless 

Like the cruise director and most of her team -A good experience with them

Many in training  on ship


Princess will no longer give you back the port fees when they cancel a port

Ship has toilet and air conditioning issues at back of ship and cabins starting with a 3 so beware regardless of floor

No pools are heated so we’re unusable even though it was really hot

Passengers really old - avg. age over 70

Entertainment in theatre really bad

Movies in room good with lots of selection 

Overall a blah kind of ship with nothing memorable 

Hope this helps 

Marcia








Hope this helps

Marcia


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