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But sometimes we have to journey back in order to move forward. And sometimes we need to be away from our children for a few days in order to be a better mother. While the Golden Princess is definitely succumbing to the aging process and her style is somewhat dated and drab, she still keeps pace with much younger ships and maintains excellent hygiene. You’ll know you’re doing it right when someone asks, “Prego? ” and you answer, “deck 14 midship” and they follow up with, “no, are you prego? ” Unbotton your jeans and pat that food baby with pride.
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Princess has also become more flexible; Personal Choice Cruising offers alternatives for open seating dining (when you wish and with whom you please) and entertainment options as diverse as those found in resorts ashore. Like their predecessors, the interiors of Grand-class ships have splashy glamour in the sweeping staircases and marble-floor atriums. Surprisingly intimate for such large ships, human scale in public lounges is achieved by judicious placement of furniture as unobtrusive room dividers. The 300-square-foot Times Square–style LED screens that hover over the pools show up to seven movies or events daily.
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I just assumed that all balconies had a ceiling so you could sit outside if it was raining, and you would have some protection from the sun. You could see cabins several decks above you, and been seen on your balcony from those cabins. If you decide the buffet isn’t worth regaining the 5 pounds you lost in anticipation of this cruise in a single sitting, you might consider these other options also on the Lido deck (deck 14). Horizon Court would be perfectly fine if there weren’t so many other great dining options. Try the buffet and judge for yourself, but don’t keep coming back if it disappoints – it will likely continue to do so. I had Anytime Dining, meaning I could show up at any time the dining room was open like a traditional land-based restaurant.
Chef preparing food
The spacious closet was by a large set of storage shelves and the bathroom. You could not access the shelves (and safe) or the closet, while someone was trying to get in and out of the bathroom. This is just poor design, and may have been considered acceptable when the Golden Princess was first cruising. Other more modern ships do not have this configuration issue.
She was being so rude that I honestly was tempted to throw her overboard myself! Why she didn’t research her cabin before booking I have no idea. I also filmed daily vlogs when I was onboard, these include lots of restaurant and food footage. Make sure you visit my YouTube channel to check the videos out there.
All staterooms have color TV with CNN and movies, a radio and small refrigerator, and spacious bathrooms with storage space and hair dryers. The medical center is one of the most advanced at sea, the first to offer real-time teleconferencing support from a leading national cardiac care center in the United States. Seven- to 14-night cruises offer two opportunities to put on the Ritz in formal attire. Many men opt for dark suit instead of tux, while their distaff companions often prefer dressy pants to gowns.
The nightclub on the Golden Princess is at the back of the ship and is up a travelator. I thought that this looked really cool and the actual club itself is pretty big. The dance floor is rather small but it never really got too busy.
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Other amenities include a refrigerator, hair dryer, TV, closet and bathroom with shower. Subsequent ships did not have the same design problem, so Skywalker’s remains. The most incongruous factor about these mega-ships is that the public rooms aren’t much bigger than those on much smaller ships, and there are surprisingly few bars and lounges for a ship this size.
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These main dining rooms predictably offer Princess’ Continental-style cuisine unlikely to win any culinary awards, but also elicit few complaints. For gourmet dining, try the alternative option, refined but not snooty, Sabatini’s Trattoria for a wonderful selection of Italian antipasti, complemented with such garnishes as Sevruga caviar, delicious pizza, homemade pastas, soups and breads. Salads are tossed before your very eyes, and soup ladled into fresh bread bowls. Seafood predominates on the list of main courses; there are lobster, langoustines, tiger prawns, Chilean sea bass and scallops, with red meat dishes also on offer. Save room for the exquisite Italian pastries that will be wheeled before you toward meal’s end. Both Vista Lounge and Princess Theater hosted renowned entertainers and grand production shows.
Princess Theater was the main show lounge, with same-level orchestra seating, stadium seating behind, as well as a few boxes. Vista Lounge was cabaret-style, with chairs grouped around small drink tables and along large windows. Follows the complete list of Golden Princess lounges, bars, clubs and other entertainment venues for kids, teens and adults. Aft on Deck 18 is the Sports Court (multi-sports combined court for playing basketball, volleyball, football).
P&O Cruises is a subsidiary company and two brands owned by Carnival Corporation - P&O UK and P&O Australia. In 2000, P&O Cruises became subsidiary of P&O Princess Cruises, which merged with Carnival Corporation in 2003. P and O is the world's oldest cruise company, starting passenger shipping operations in 1822 on the routes connecting England with Iberia. Produced by Stephen Schwartz, the famous composer who wrote the music and lyrics for many hit shows such as Wicked, Pippin, and Godspell, this was one of the best production shows I’ve seen at sea. Arrive early to grab a good seat at the Princess Theater as it will be completely full by showtime. After teaching at a liberal arts college for over a decade, regularly emphasizing to current and prospective students the importance of a liberal arts education, I’m here to tell you to save yourself considerable time and expense and take a cruise!
Princess has a wide variety of onboard classes offered through their Scholarship@Sea program. Go dance the night away or enjoy a cabaret performance at the Golden Princess’ theater. What can you say about a ship that offers three main dining rooms instead of the usual multi-tiered, bigger than life one? They are more intimate and definitely quieter, but like the Princess “included in the cruise fare” cuisine, they are not likely to elicit a “wow” response either.
The renamed Golden Princess was planned to start cruises (as "Pacific Adventure") for P&O Australia with the 18-day repositioning cruise from Singapore to Sydney NSW. Following the Coronavirus crisis, Pacific Adventure is homeported in Sydney (restart date October 22, 2022). The roundtrips visit locations in Australia (including short breaks to Moreton Island, Melbourne Cup-themed, cruises to nowhere, Great Barrier Reef), Tasmania, New Zealand, South Pacific Islands (Fiji, Vanuatu, New Caledonia). In late-October 2018, P&O Australia announced the inaugural season of Pacific Adventure.
You can definitely tell that she is an older ship but this really didn’t ruin anything for me. I loved how quiet the ship was and how many places there were to grab a drink or some food. There was never any trouble getting a drink and all of the staff onboard were amazing. Deck 14 houses the Navigation Bridge/Wheelhouse, midship pool deck area (2x swimming pools - Main Pool and Family Pool), 4x Jacuzzies/hot tubs, a band stage. The Main Pool deck is served by Grandi Pronto (Pizza Bar), Luke's Burger Bar (premium beef and pulled pork burgers, seafood rolls), Pool Bar (beverages) and Ice Cream Bar (serving complimentary New Zealand Natural Ice Cream). My wife and I had a mini-suite on Dolphin deck (Deck 9, Cabin D608).
Dishes are designed to be shared banquet-style, such as Indian spiced duck samosas, Vietnamese rice paper rolls, Chinese dumplings, Japanese tempura-crusted sushi rolls, barramundi green curry, honey prawns, chicken satay sticks. Desserts include mango and sticky coconut rice, a jar of apple caramel milkshake, salted dark chocolate cake with sesame ice cream. The boat has 18 decks, of which 13 are passenger-accessible and 9 with cabins. The queen bed was comfortable, but had a very thick comforter. If you didn’t turn down the temperature in the room at night to at least “cold”—both thermostats—then you would get too hot under the comforter. This was a bit of an odd cruise, so short with no ports of call and requiring I fly south from my home city of Seattle to Los Angeles in order to sail north to Vancouver.
This also meant I wouldn’t have the same service team every night as is the case with Traditional Dining. I’ve always found this a less intimate and friendly arraignment and this time was no exception. Find a little patch of paradise in this adults-only retreat at the bow of the 16th deck after a busy morning ashore or during a leisurely at-sea day. Guests can book for a day or half-day, and while away the time with light meals and drinks and chill out with cool face towels and Evian water atomisers and relax with al fresco massages.
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