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Our Princess Cruise Experience; So Disappointing
We cruised with Princess Cruise line on the Crown Princess to the Hawaiian islands out of San Francisco, CA 4/4/24 and returned 4/20/24. We have cruised before, but this particular cruise was a complete disappointment. We have always been impressed with the great buffets on our past cruises and other dining options in the past, but the buffet wasn't; as good as, Golden Corral! The salads had no flavor, bacon was raw in appearance, Baked beans were just Pork n Beans. People were filling their drink cups and thermoses at the waitor's drink stations; if there had been a pandemic we would've been in trouble! I am always cautious; using my own bleach wipes to be safe when we dined, but even though I still ended up sick. I would venture to guess that at least 1/3 of the cruisers if not more became ill. I have never been sick on any other of my cruises in the past. I took photos of many people filling their personal containers at the drink station daily. We booked an excursion through Princess in Kauai to see a plantation and Panoramic Opaekaa Falls.We could not believe that this was an excursion provided by Princess cruise lines. Boarded a small train at the plantation for what consisted of a total of about 25 minutes (10 minutes of which was a stop to feed pigs and chickens, which we could've done at our local zoo!) The excursion promised shopping at the end of the train ride, but we were told we had 10 minutes to reboard the bus. This was barely enough time for a bathroom break; in fact, we ended up leaving two of our passengers behind. When we arrived at Opaekaa Falls, we were again told that we had 10 minutes to walk to the overlook and get back to the bus. It took the better part of 10 minutes to get everyone off of the bus! For this we paid $129.95 each. We along with several other participants in this excursion were left wondering what we even paid for... This was pretty much a no frills cruise.