Princess Chatter

While we won't return to the grand class ships any longer- just to many problems with them that we don't need. We'll be waiting to a chance to sail on the new Sun class out of Florida, perhaps in the fall of 2024.

We've come to enjoy the better layout, food selections & shows on the newer ships and don't care about the itinerary at all since we've covered all the islands on the Caribbean many time over. I've been surprised at the number of people who choose to say on the ship at many of the ports just to enjoy the ships atmosphere when the majority rush off to see the sights.

Glad to see they came up with some new shows for this new ship. I'm getting bored with the production shops on the Royal class ships already.

That sounds like a fun trip. 

If you cruise often enough you'll find that does occur from time to time.
There's not much that you can do about it, except whine.

Who reads the cruise contract, until you have a problem. 

I'm not totally eliminating it for now.
We'll wait till the price is reasonable.

From what I heard they've done away with the wooden skewers also. I guess they're bad for the environment also or maybe they're just to expensive. ??

We just returned from the Ruby (Nov 6th sailing) and found some things a little disappointing. The production shows are really outdated, but that was to be expected.
Buffet food was really disappointing to say the least. Very little variety with sometimes only 1 main item offered. We had a lot of port days & couldn't use the DR for lunch.

The redeeming thing was the food in the DR which we found pretty good overall. We never had one bad meal in the DR.

One night we went to the Crown Grill & it was terrible. We had 2 or 3 appetizers each although our waitress pointed out that it was limited to only 1 appetizer but she had to confirm it with the Chef to get approval for more. 
Our main course of Rack of Veal was so tough neither of us actually finished it. For $80 spent, we wouldn't return anytime soon.

Most of the crew did a good job except for the new cruise director, Jess. Her constant screaming into her mic made her announcements unbearable. We're used to a more laid back attitude for a CD & her attitude was more suited for a Carnival cruise. 
Maybe were just getting to old for that bubbly attitude. She certainly didn't fit the typical Princess stereotype.