Hawaii Cruise Reviews

The cruise ship was good. It was small with very little outside activities. Food was good. Ship was clean. Service was good. The bad part....... The excursions were booked full before we could get there. Due to a very long travel, we were not able to get on the ship until late in the day and the long lines at the excursion desk made it impossible to get the "Road to Hana" excursion. I think NCL should consider reversing the cruise itinerary and have Maui the last two days. Also the Pearl Harbor excursions were all booked. We were able to arrange off-ship excursions for most of the places we wanted to see.

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Our first day on board as we were about to enter our room, the steward was right out side of our room and informed us we could not use our bathroom as it was not flushing properly. Later that day it was working. The second day after our excursion when we came back to our room, the toilet would not flush once again. I called and reported it but no one came. Our neighbor knocked on our door and ask if we were having problems. So I told him yes. He said his hadn't worked all day. Since we were gone for most of the morning we weren't aware of this. They finally fixed it later that day. The dining experience was not really super either. The first night the food was great. From then on it seem to go down hill each night. The female wait staff were always in a hurry and were ready for us to hurry up and leave. The two male wait staff were much more friendly and willing to give our information. Christopher was really great and so was Jon Michael. We got great service from both o...

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Besides not having anyone meet us at the plane to take us to the ship, the rest was fair. We are so used to Royal Carribean standards that the Solstace was jusr not up to par.

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The ship was very nice;however, certain amenities were lacking--no game room and very few games available, very small library, no lounge chairs on the promenade deck, only deck chairs, the quality of entertainment was ok, but did not hold up to other cruise lines, and the wait staff while very good was also not up to prior cruises on other lines. On the plus side our stateroom was very nice, the food was excellent, and there was more than enough seating all around the ship. We would not choose Princess again, unless it was an exceptional value.

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We arehoping to see atleast ocean view but we diod not enjoy at all it is completely obstructed when we boought the tiket it says partial obstruction, onthe we are disapplointed over all all services and friendly cruss member

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We had an awesome time. So much to do on board, we had 9 sea days and we were never bored. Great shows, lots of games and activities to keep you entertained. The food was outstanding and very plentiful. Television was a little lacking. They had several cruise info channels one of which ran a video of one of the game shows, the same game show, over and over 24/7 for 15 days. They had Direct tv but there was 4 sea days with no reception. They had 3 channels with movies, but only one had a movie during the day and the others played movie previews. The crew and service was outstanding! We had a extended balcony cabin it was very roomy with a really nice large balcony.

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this cruise was wonderful carnival did a great job one excursion was terrible and they should take off their recomendition list to many people to enjoy this 2,000 people like cattle not enough food or utinsels and could not enjoy the show the waiter in the un assigned dinning are Canrado was excelent very personal and caring he should get 5 stars also the hostess nicole was wonderful the ship was very clean and the shows were entertaining

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First of all let me start by saying that we are newly retired folks who enjoy being on a cruise ship. Although we have done a fair bit of East Coast travel we are always looking for a reasonably priced, clean, and updated room. We do not stay at five star hotels and eat modestly at family restaurants. With that in mind, let me begin..... We have now sailed on THREE NCL cruises and have found them to be very good!! Embarkation was a breeze and the rooms were ready very early in the day (by about 1pm) for a 7pm departure. WE arrived at the pier at about 10:30am and the porters took opur bags immediately for checkin. For the small tip involved, we avoided a line up for the regular baggage checkin, which did not open until 11am. At 11am we allowed through security and on to the registration desk to get our room keys. At noon we were able to go onboard for lunch. Very restful and unhurried!!! Our room was a balcony cabin 7034 which is right above the Mardi Gras lounge, a bit of a con...

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The cabin was very nice and the ship's personnel very helpful and friendly. Compared to a previous Norwegian cruise the cabin was better on Princess but the food was not as high quality, particularly at the buffet. I personally do not like having to dress for dinner and formal nights in particular. Norwegian's Freestyle dining is much more appealing and relaxing to me. I did enjoy the quality recent movies available to watch on the ship. Not as satisfied with the on board entertainment. Overall the cruise to Hawaii and back was satisfying.

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After checking in we were sent off to wait for an hour before getting on the ship. The stop in Mexicor was really not long enough to do anything, and then it delayed in Honolulu by having to go through immigration. We didn't get off the ship until 11:30. The staterooms were very nice and clean. The TV remote had to be held up high to change channels or volume. There alwasys seemed to be bathrooms out of order around the ship, especially the womens room by the Vista lounge, A couple of the jacuzzis were also out of order for most of the cruise. The Scholarship at sea series was great. We reaaly enjoyed the talks by John (naturalist) and Elizabeth. The nightly entertainment was OK. I liked the first comedian, the magician, the pianist, the impressionist, and the floor shows were good. Some of the staff was always friendly but the majority of them just seemed to ignore you. I will probably not take another Princess cruise. This was my first, after traveling with Norwegian ...

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