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Value For Money  4.75/5  (4.75)
Cabin Design  3.50/5  (3.50)
Entertainment  4.00/5  (4.00)
Fitness Center  4.00/5  (4.00)
Food Quality  4.25/5  (4.25)
Ship Maintenance  4.50/5  (4.50)
Spa  4.00/5  (4.00)
Specialty Restaurant  4.50/5  (4.50)
Staff and Service  4.00/5  (4.00)

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Value For Money  4.19/5  (4.19)
Cabin Design  4.04/5  (4.04)
Entertainment  3.48/5  (3.48)
Fitness Center  4.05/5  (4.05)
Food Quality  4.32/5  (4.32)
Ship Maintenance  4.41/5  (4.41)
Spa  3.68/5  (3.68)
Specialty Restaurant  4.48/5  (4.48)
Staff and Service  4.44/5  (4.44)

 
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Coral Princess
Coral Princess

Ushering in a new era in design, this exciting new ship is one of cruising's most advanced passenger vessels. The Coral Princess cruise ship offers the same vast array of public room space as Princess' renowned larger ships but, in a twist, spread over two decks and with fewer passengers aboard and offering the most staterooms with balconies in the Princess fleet.

Coral Princess passengers will enjoy many of Princess' famed Personal Choice Cruising options and services, along with some exciting new features..

Our ships may be big, but they don't feel big. That's because we used our extra space not to cram in more people but to create more small intimate places. Our deck plans offer lots of restaurants, theatres, bars, swimming pools and so on. We call it "big ship choice and small ship feel" (sm).

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Our previously preferred cruiseline continues to diminish in quality., January 8, 2012
Reviewer: gomontavista
Pros: Price
Cons: Service, food, onboard activities
Date of cruise: 12-20-2011
Departure port: Los Angeles
Region visited: Panama Canal
Cabin category: Outside
Cabin number: 5310
Found through: CruiseCompete.com
Good for children: Yes
Good for teenagers: Yes
    
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Value For Money   5.00/5  (5)
Cabin Design   3.00/5  (3)
Entertainment   4.00/5  (4)
Fitness Center   4.00/5  (4)
Food Quality   3.00/5  (3)
Ship Maintenance   4.00/5  (4)
Staff and Service   2.00/5  (2)

We have been on several Princess cruises (as well as NCL, Celebrity, Royal Carribbean, Carnival and others) and should reach Platinum level with Princess after this cruise.

But, over the years, we have noticed a degradation of service and I believe it unlikely we will ever reach the top Black level of Princess' customer loyalty program. Service levels have receded over the years and while in the past, Princess provided engaging onboard programs, the emphasis is now on selling photos and jewelry.

On ship culture seems to have become one of just going through the motions. No staff appeared to even want to provide a good experience to the passengers. In past cruises, staff often tried to interact with us, but on this cruise, they were very standoffish. Our first cruise, on the retired Royal Princess, was exemplary, but things have gone downhill ever since.

In general categories:

The ship. The Coral Princess is one of the newer Princess ships we have been on with the typical spaces found on medium sized ships including a large screen on the upper deck (servicable, but with a few broken pixels and sound subpar to what we have heard on Carnival). There is an outdoor pool and an indoor pool (movable top) which is reserved for adults. Two outside decks in the back are reserved for paying guests ($10 for a morning or afternoon). There was one upscale Italian restaurant ($20) and another New Orleans specialty restaurant ($20) which we didn't go. We wanted a steak and seafood restaurant, but none here. There is a theater at the front and a two level lounge at the back which often provided different shows with two showings each night. Some shows were repeated multiple days as well.

Itinerary. Because of unrest in Mexico, we were informed that Princess chose to avoid the country, instead making a beeline from Los Angeles California to Puntarenas, Costa Rica, with 5 days at sea. Other ports included Panama, a refueling stop in Cartegena, Columbia (4 hours), and a short stop in Aruba (Compare this with our last Princess Panama Canal cruise which offered 3 additional stops in Mexico and another in Guatamala and a second in Costa Rica within 10 days - this cruise was 14).

Food. In short, very disappointing. It appears that the cooking staff are international without any concept of American food.

Pizza is served outside and the first reaction to the giant (24"?) flat pads was yuck. However, they tasted much better than they looked. Selection was minimal with cheese pizzas and pepperoni pizzas provided along with a varying additional selection (we recall a four cheese pizza (not good) and one or two other varieties served over the 14 day run). Note that the sparse pepperoni was not evenly distributed with some slices getting several pieces and some slices being very sparse. If you are used to getting pizzas with lots of toppings piled on, forget it. These were actually as flat and maybe thinner than a pancake. Without a sign, it was difficult to determine what was on the pizzas (Pepperoni is easy to spot, but the others could be anybody's guess. This was very disappointing compared with our cruise on the Regal Princess (5 yrs ago, Panama) which had a dedicated pizza restaurant also serving calzones in a relaxed atmosphere in a dedicated dining area or our Princess cruise to Alaska (from San Francisco) which had a part time pizzeria in a lounge area.

Typical hamburgers, hot dogs (the typical stereotype - what's in the dogs - applies) and fries are served on the top deck.

Soft serve was provided, but the machines could not handle the demand until well into the cruise. An enhancement ($$) to the soda card allowed shakes, but they used regular blenders which resulted in very thin shakes. They should have invested in a dedicated shake dispenser or a real shake mixer.

The Horizon buffet was a typical cruise buffet experience with often rude staff (they scolded people caught in the unmarked queues the wrong way) and a lack of viable choices. While other cruises provided different foods on both sides of the restaurant and the front, they were the same here). In the past, cruise buffets would be decorated with carved fruit, but this proved sparse on this trip. There were no noodle bars, stir fry stations, nor other amenities offered on competing cruise lines.

Breakfast was repetitive, with the same thing served every day, albeit with minor variations (sometimes rice, sweet potato hash (yuck), other hash mixtures). Breakfast sandwich was almost always ham and egg on a muffin. We ate around 9:30 and the once warm sandwiches were invariably soggy on the bottom and rock hard on the top. They had an egg/omelet station, but the other eggs were big premixed cakes of pour out of the carton blandness. Beverage service was poor. Orange juice was only available through the wait staff, who often quickly asked what you wanted, but rarely delivered anything, and at other times delivered something other than what you asked. I usually asked for orange juice, but only got it a couple of times. No refills were provided, and we seemed to be ignored when we tried to get some. There were only a few types of lunch meat which remained unvaried throughout the trip.

Lunch and dinner provided variety but only a few outstanding dishes. There were a lot of Indian foods available - different chicken, multiple rice, curry, etc., but very few Indian passengers. No Mexican, and Italian pasta was the same everyday with a bland tomato sauce. Tortilla chips were unflavored, unsalted, and not cooked correctly, with bad sauce, if available. At one lunch, a sandwich bar was provided with a variety of breads and a few different meats, cheeses and garnishes, but it was obvious the staff was not accustomed to making sandwiches, and their assembly was entertainment in itself. We did not taste any since the line was long, and the slow assembly process was a joke (How hard is it to put sliced meat on bread?). At another lunch, there was a dessert bar (which we were told took 3 days to prepare), but it was little more extensive than a typical American coffee shop, and the staff had difficulty figuring out how to cut slices of cake. Lemonade was advertised and often requested, but only delivered once in 14 days.

Traditional dining. The wait staff was okay, but spent a great deal of time waiting for the food trays to come. Dinner took around 1 1/2 hours for our assigned seating (with the room typically half empty). Appetizers were okay, but with middling variety (a different pate each day, all tasting the same. Soups were mostly broths with slight variation. I am not sure, but it seemed like a college cafeteria where what you didn't finish one day would be served the next day with a few different vegetables thrown in. Desserts were good if you like souffles and creme brulee (both very good) (different descriptions each night, but they tasted the same), but other choices were minimal. The baked alaska was disappointing. This is the first parade which did not have a flame - they used led lights, and the ones we got were not the same ones paraded (different shape - ours were very even and may have come from a box). Beverage service was lacking after the first night. Portions were small, but reasonable. The soup was hot once, but otherwise was just lukewarm. This is our first cruise without a midnight buffet, and although we had king crab one night, our waiter claimed to be surprised indicating that in prior cruises, it was not available.

It was very disappointing NOT to have a Midnight Buffet (No Champagne tower on New Years Eve either although they did have a Champagne tower earlier on the trip).

I did not have to worry about gaining weight on this trip.

Bars. Very plentiful with reasonably good service, but we noticed that if they ran out of mix (e.g. Margarita Mix), instead of getting another box, they would add ice or orange juice, or leave the glass half full. There was a lot of drinking on this ship, so bar sales seemed good.

On board shopping. "Sales" were very frequent, but not much new merchandise. On the Panama Canal transit, they had beer carts roaming on deck as well temporary stands on deck selling the same merchandise like street vendors (tacky).

Entertainment. This was the first cruise which did NOT have live entertainment on deck on embarkation. Live entertainment on deck was limited to one hour on a few selected days. The atrium had a good classical trio (violin, bass, piano) and the guitarist (good) from the ship's band (mediocre) played on occasion. The bars had the typical groups each evening. Shows varied. Guest performers (magic, comedian, singer) were very good although the comedian missed his audience on his first performance (Southern California jokes are not good for a conservative older audience). The ventriloquist was entertaining. The hypnotist was fake (don't have an audience participant leave after the performance through a stage door). The ship's cast was very disappointing with singers well below typical for cruise lines and dancers high-schoolish (except one - the short one (Filipina?) - the only one who appeared to dance to the music). This was unfortunately accentuated when the ship regulars tried to do a Motown show the evening after Jimila, an excellent guest singer who sang Motown the night before.

Activities. The worst of all of our cruises. No variety. There were a few lectures (not generally on topics related to ports of call), but no handicrafts nor much of anything else (prior cruises had activities to kill the time - drawing, needlepoint, other things). There was trivia everyday and a few bridge sessions, but in general, nothing of substance was scheduled. A few times, they tried on-deck activities.

Photos. There were 3 formal days with multiple opportunities for photo sessions. They provided incentives to buy more photos (eg: buy 4, get 1 free, buy 3 more, get another free, etc), but once you reach the end, you start over. We would have bought more if offered a discount, but since the discount card started over, instead of spending a few hundred dollars more, our extra photos were disposed of.

Service desk. Our bill was wrong (double billed for an item), and they really did not want to correct it. First reaction was that we were trying to pull something, but they manually went through all the ships receipts and finally discovered we were correct. Our credit was run on an imprinting machine, the first I had seen in several years. The counterperson "helping" us was busy with answering the phone and doing other stuff, so it took a long time to get our credit, and there was a long line behind us.

Last day service. Forget about it. It appeared that they know you are getting off the ship, and it felt like the staff was done with everything - get the passengers off the ship and start with the new incoming clientele.

Would we go on this cruise again. Probably. It was our daughter's best cruise yet, but because of other passengers she met on board, not the food, amenities, ship, nor ports of call. It was a cheap last minute cruise for us booked for the holidays. It was available and served its purpose. If we found a viable alternative (with available connecting flights), we would have gone elsewhere. Not a dream vacation, but still a vacation. Kind of like eating at McDonald's. It is not good food, but it will satisfy if you are hungry.

Disclaimer (or disclosure). On a previous Princess cruise (Panama - 5 years ago on the Regal Princess), our luggage went overboard on embarkation. Princess did not know what to do, other than to tell us they were not responsible, blaming it on longshoremen (We placed our luggage into Princess' hands at the airport while we transferred by Princess shuttle to the Cruiseport).

Princess currently makes it a point to disclaim responsibility for luggage at any time even if they are the ones handling it. After our cruise, Princess finally reimbursed us for our out of pocket (replacing our damaged possessions which were inventoried on the ship), but they refused to replace our trip, which continues to cause us consternation. Compare this with Carnival, who recently had a mishap on one of their cruises - they refunded their passengers as well as provided their passengers with a free future cruise.

With a refusal to reimburse us for our lost vacation, Princess has become second tier for us in our future cruise vacations, but we will still consider them as an alternative.
 
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(Review ID: 665)
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
 
We loved this cruise, October 31, 2011
Reviewer: bigenna
Pros: Very interesting seeing the Panama Canal
Cons: Food is too good and plentiful - gained weight
Date of cruise: October 11, 2011
Departure port: Fort Lauderdale
Region visited: Panama Canal
Cabin category: Balcony
Cabin number: E701
Found through: CruiseCompete.com,Cruise line website,Cruise community site,Cruise deal website
    
bigenna saw things this way
Value For Money   4.00/5  (4)
Cabin Design   3.00/5  (3)
Entertainment   5.00/5  (5)
Food Quality   5.00/5  (5)
Ship Maintenance   5.00/5  (5)
Staff and Service   5.00/5  (5)

We really enjoyed our time on the ship. Our stateroom was near the back, on Emerald Deck, just to the rear of the lifeboats. We were far enough back that they did not obstruct our view in any way. Our covered balcony had a little table, two regular chairs, and two recliners - very comfy. The weather was good so we spent some lovely mornings there, enjoying the quiet. Even though we were virtually on top of the Universe Lounge, noise was not an issue at all.

The dining room service was excellent, as was the quality of the food and the variety. We tried "anytime dining" on this cruise and overall really liked the experience. It was an opportunity to meet a lot of interesting people and provided flexibility re: the time that we wanted to eat. The only con, if any, was that unlike "traditional" dining, your waiter does not get to know you and therefore you don't get the unexpected little extras he would provide, knowing your tastes and preferences. But, having said that, all you have to do is ask and any of the staff will be more than willing to try and accomodate your wishes.

The entertainment was very good. The Princess dancers are very talented and put on a variety of very good shows.

They also had some dancing lessons on the ship, which we tried quite a few of. The instructors, Joyce and Sam, were very patient with us and provided easy to understand instructions. We happened to be seated with them at dinner one night and got to know them a little better. Very nice couple, and Sam never danced until he was 67 years old. (would never have had any idea that he was near 80)

I would not hesitate to recommend this cruise and ship.
 
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(Review ID: 306)
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
 
Wonderful cruise with great ports, September 7, 2010
Reviewer: tecjb
Pros: Ship was wonderful; right up to the glaciers; ship's naturalist was great
Cons: The embarkment process in Whittier was terrible.
Date of cruise: 3/10
Departure port: Whittier
Region visited: Alaska
Cabin category: Balcony
Found through: Cruise deal website
    
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Value For Money   5.00/5  (5)
Cabin Design   4.00/5  (4)
Entertainment   3.00/5  (3)
Food Quality   4.00/5  (4)
Ship Maintenance   4.00/5  (4)
Specialty Restaurant   4.00/5  (4)
Staff and Service   4.00/5  (4)

Everything other than the embarkment process was great.
 
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(Review ID: 135)
15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
 
Coral Princess Alaska Northbound, July 28, 2010
Reviewer: huskerdan25
Pros: Ship, food, crew, service
Cons: Nothing
Date of cruise: 7/10/10 - 7/17/10
Departure port: Vancouver
Region visited: Alaska
Cabin category: Balcony
Found through: Cruise community site
    
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Value For Money   5.00/5  (5)
Cabin Design   4.00/5  (4)
Food Quality   5.00/5  (5)
Ship Maintenance   5.00/5  (5)
Spa   4.00/5  (4)
Specialty Restaurant   5.00/5  (5)
Staff and Service   5.00/5  (5)

July 10 – July 17, Alaska Northbound.

My wife and I went on this cruise and had a fantastic time! The Coral Princess is a beautiful ship and it is the smallest ship we have cruised on so far (the others were the Sapphire Princess and Caribbean Princess).

We plan to cruise in this class of ship again. At no time did the ship ever feel crowded and there were times when it seemed like we were the only people on board. We loved it!

The upgrade fairy visited us at check-in and we were very grateful! We had booked P505, an outside cabin with a large window that did not have an obstructed view. We had decided that since we had decided so late to book the cruise (we booked in late March) that we would save some money for the excursions and not book a balcony. On our previous cruises, we booked balconies.

At check-in, I got the cruise cards and the ship layout card and it had A441 on it. So I told the person checking in that there must be a mistake as we had booked P505. He looked at the computer again and told me no, that was the correct cabin. Apparently we had been upgraded and had found out at check-in! WOW! We were so excited! What a great surprise and it greatly enhanced our experience. I will share more in the lessons learned section of this review.

We flew non-stop from Denver to Vancouver on July 9 (we always travel to the embarkation port a day in advance) as we didn’t want to do the Seattle and then transfer plan to get to the cruise ship. I am glad we went straight to Vancouver. Getting through customs was a breeze and we took the Canada Line (light rail) to downtown and walked five blocks to the Sutton Place Hotel. Beautiful hotel and we really enjoyed our stay there.

I wish I wasn’t a diabetic as I would have gladly gone to the Chocoholic buffet they hold on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. We didn’t get to the hotel until about 3 p.m. so didn’t have much time to really check out Vancouver. Being a Friday afternoon, the crowded downtown area reminded me of New York City. We walked down to Canada Place in time to see the Celebrity Millenium about to leave. Vancouver is a beautiful city and if we could do it over again, we would arrive earlier the day before or a couple of days before so we could enjoy the city.

Embarkation

We were so excited to be on a cruise again that we decided to take a taxi from the hotel down to Canada Place at 10 a.m. We ended up being the very first people in line at about 10:15 a.m. and we waited about 30 minutes before we could go through security and customs and to check-in. Things went quickly and smoothly and we were on the ship by 11:30 a.m., right after the platinum and elite passengers boarded. I had read of some nightmares around boarding at Canada Place but there were only two ships on July 10, the Coral and a Holland America ship (the Zuiderdam, I believe). Boarding was a breeze. And of course, we got the surprise news of being upgraded to a mid-ship balcony on the Aloha deck.

Ports of Call

Ketchikan: We had booked a tour of the city and Totem Bight with Northern Tours that left at 9 a.m. We were off the ship at 7 a.m. so we walked around town including Creek Street and did a little shopping before the tour. We really enjoyed the tour of Totem Bight and our tour guide, Leoti, was outstanding. She told us the stories behind many of the totem poles and the clan house. She also gave us very interesting information about Ketchikan and the area. We paid $35 pp for this tour and felt we got great value for the tour. We were back on the ship by noon for a 2 p.m. departure. We had hoped to catch the Great Lumberjack Show but the show times didn’t work for us.

Juneau: We pre-purchased round-trip tickets on the MGT “Blue Bus” to Mendenhall Glacier since we did not want to be rushed as many tours are. We paid $14 pp for the Bus and it took us very close to the visitor center while the city buses dropped people off much further away. We really enjoyed walking a number of the trails including the Nugget Falls trail and we got great up-close photos of the glacier and Nugget Falls. We visited the visitor center ($3 pp). We spent a total of 3.5 hours at Mendenhall and did a lot of walking but we really enjoyed not being rushed. We then returned to town and ate lunch at Traci’s King Crab Shack. We absolutely loved the crab bisque, crab cakes and the crab legs. We spent a total of $49 for our lunch including drinks. Well worth it and the crab legs were amazing! Can’t recommend Traci’s highly enough and it was located very close to the ships. After lunch, we walked up to see the old Russian Orthodox Church and then did some shopping. Around 2 p.m., it started to rain and it continued the rest of our stay. We decided not to take the Mt. Robert’s Tramway with it raining and decided to go back aboard the ship and relax. Of the three ports of call, this was our least favorite but we still enjoyed ourselves.

Skagway: We booked the Chilkoot Tours Carcross Rail and Bus tour, the most expensive tour we took on this cruise at $239 pp. It was worth every single penny! We totally enjoyed the train ride on the the White Pass and Yukon route train that took us all the way to Carcross along Lake Bennett. The train ride was incredible with scenery you can’t appreciate unless you are on the train. We stopped at the Bennett station for a very good lunch of beef stew, cole slaw, fresh bread and apple pie. We also had time to visit the one church in Bennett. Then back on the train for the final 27 mile push to Carcross, all along Lake Bennett. In total, we spent about 4.5 hours on the train. We got on the bus at Carcross (there were just 3 other couples) and went to Emerald Lake and the smallest dessert in the world. We had a couple on the Millineum who had to be back on board by 4:30 p.m. so we had to rush back to Skagway but part of the way back, they transferred to another van from Chilkoot and we got to enjoy the rest of the trip in a more leisurely pace. The guide/driver was hilarious and had all of us laughing with his stories on the ride back. He dropped us off in downtown Skagway and we checked out the shops and walked back to the ship. We stopped at the Skagway Fish House for some halibut and chips and then back on the ship in time to get ready for dinner.

Glacier Bay: One word…..amazing!! And we were blessed with blue skies and sun. I am so glad we chose this itinerary because I got some incredible photos here and we enjoyed room service for lunch while enjoying Glacier Bay from our balcony.

College Fjords: Another beautiful, somewhat sunny day. Here I was able to get photos on an eagle sitting on an iceberg watching sea otters swim by and three seals resting on an iceberg. Glaciers weren’t quite as dramatic as those in Glacier Bay but nonetheless beautiful. We got into College Fjords around 5 p.m so spent most of the day resting.

Whittier: Since we didn’t have a land tour planned, we flew back to Denver from Anchorage non-stop on Frontier. Used the Alaska Transfer Service and the drive to Anchorage was very comfortable and enjoyable. Once we got through the tunnel, the cloudiness and fog from Whittier was replaced with partly cloudy skies and beautiful sunshine. We enjoyed the scenery on the trip to Anchorage.

Disembarkation

Since we had our own transfer plans, we were allowed to walk off the ship anytime between 6:30 a.m. and 8:45 a.m. We decided to leave the ship around 8:15 a.m. and the process was very smooth. Walked off, got our bags and out to the bus for Anchorage. Since everyone taking the bus was off the ship and ready to go by 9 a.m., we were able to leave an hour earlier and arrive at the airport an hour earlier than planned.

The Ship and Crew – Coral Princess

What a beautiful ship and the crew were very friendly. We constantly got greetings and smiles. Our steward, Ramon, from the Philippines, was outstanding! We made three requests of him by paging him and he always responded within a couple of minutes. We asked for an egg crate after the first night because the beds were a bit hard for us. We also asked for more pillows as the pillows were pretty flat. The third request was due to our toilet deciding not to flush. He and those who fixed the problem were very responsive and got it taken care of within 30 minutes.

Our head waiter and assistant waiter were also from the Philippines (I, myself, am half-Filipino). Jose and Jerome were excellent. We were lucky to have great table mates (thanks, Lee and Jane and David and Judy!). Everyone had a great sense of humor and Jose quickly fit in and had us laughing quite often. His recommendations each night were spot on. We got excellent service and it greatly enhanced our dining experience.

The Food

We did something we hadn’t done on previous cruises and had lunch in the main dining room (Provence) when we boarded the ship. Glad we did instead of fighting the crowd in the buffet. Enjoyed our lunch and it was the start of an enjoyable dining experience. We had late traditional dining in the Provence (we always do traditional dining) and we felt the quality of the dishes to be very good. There was only one dish that I found unsatisfactory the whole cruise and it was the barramundi. For some reason it had a strong fish smell and taste. I love fish but this one didn’t go over well with me or our table mates. Otherwise, I enjoyed the food very much and every night ordered two main dishes because it was so hard to pick just one

The day we were in Ketchikan, we decided to eat in the Bayou Café. Excellent. The steaks were great as was the lobster tail that was $5 extra ($15 pp fee). For $40, we got a great dinner and really enjoyed the spices. We did not eat in Sabbatini’s since I am a diabetic and stay away from pasta (yes, it is very hard to do!). We are breakfast and lunch in the Horizon court with one lunch being room service on our balcony. Overall, we found the food to be of very high quality and taste.

Entertainment

We did not make it to any of the shows on this cruise. With late traditional dining and not finishing dinner before 9:30 p.m.(shows were at 8:15 and 10:15) and with us getting up at 5:30 a.m. each morning, we just didn’t feel like going to a show so late. So, sorry, can’t comment on the shows at all.

Naturalist Our naturalist was from the University of Georgia and while I enjoyed the content of the lectures, he had a delivery that put most of those in attendance to sleep. I had hoped that Murray (Yukon on the Cruise Critic forums) would have been on board as I followed his blog during this trips on the Coral in previous weeks. The park ranger in Glacier Bay did a great job with her presentation and, overall, I enjoyed the lectures.

Weather

I think we were very fortunate with the weather on this cruise. We chose mid-July because of our belief that we would have the best chance of good weather and it turned out that way for us. While most mornings were always foggy and cloud covered, six of the seven days we saw blue skies and sun. The only day we did not was Juneau and it rained quite a bit that day. Skagway was overcast when we arrived but once we got past the summit on the train, we got beautiful blue skies in British Columbia and the Yukon. Glacier Bay was the nicest day of the cruise and we enjoyed the warmth of the sun on our balcony!

Overall

Best cruise we have taken so far by far! I enjoyed the fact that it was more of an educational cruise than our past cruises. The scenery just can’t be matched on other cruises (except maybe for the Antarctic cruises) and I absolutely loved the Coral Princess. This was truly a completely stress-free vacation from day 1 to our return home. I took about 800 photos on this cruise and I will have memories of a lifetime. We will most definitely return to Alaska and next time, we will do a land tour to Denali and Fairbanks. Princess has given us three great cruises and has never let us down. We are booked on the 14-day roundtrip cruise to Hawaii on the Golden Princess for Thanksgiving 2011 and will continue to cruise with Princess.
 
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