On Mar 25, 6:09=A0am, "Boomer" wrote:
> You're saying that you had to share Princess Cays with a Cunard group?
> Strange that they scheduled a stop there at the same time.
> We found the walk into Charlotte Amalie to be more like 30-40 minutes & th=
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> sights along the road weren't the prettiest. It was still worth the time f=
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> the exercise.
> We were on the same cruise a year prior & found the same seating problems
> although the Entertainment was decent. Did they still have the musicians a=
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> the Horizon buffet in the evenings?
Hi, Boomer,
No, we were the only ship that called on Princess Cays that day. You
are right, it was confusing the way I wrote it. Sorry. I was just
teasing Tom K, who recently visited Princess Cays while on a Queen
Mary 2 cruise. Because he and I are both fair and require lots of sun
protection, I asked him about the cabanas...that's where I got the
lore on "plenty of shade" to be found, which wasn't my experience!
It seems like I've read of occasions when Princess and its affiliated
lines have more than one ship scheduled for the Cays...but I couldn't
be sure. I love checking the ports calendars at www.cruisecal.com --
very handy for planning.
I didn't do the walk to Charlotte Amalie myself, so my long-legged
husband and son might have underestimated the time. My daughter and I
started out on the walk just to get a taxi to take us to Coki. It was
a bit aggravating. Because no one wanted to go to Coki at the same
time we did, the taxi stand "director" started telling us lies about
Coki to try to get us to change to another beach so he could cram us
into a half-filled taxi and avoid sending a taxi out with just two
people (for the uninitiated, "taxis" on St. Thomas are shared van
rides in big vans or multi-seat open-air jitneys). So we just walked
out of the cruise terminal and hit the road toward town, we got picked
up in a few minutes.
Regarding entertainment, I don't know about musicians in the Horizon
Court, as we ate all dinners in the dining room. We did enjoy the
several different individual and groups of musicians who played in the
atrium every afternoon and evening, and Bert Stratton was the piano
man my MIL enjoyed so much (my husband and I thought he was fun for
one night--he is something of a legend, folks either love him or hate
him, apparently, this was his last week at sea for a while). We like
production shows and were disappointed to find we had already seen the
two shows featured during the week--and the last time we cruised on a
Princess ship was 16 months ago, which shows how "stale" their
rotation program is. There was no headline musical entertainment the
entire week, which was a first in our 18 cruises across all mass
market lines; rather, they filled all those spots with
comedians...including Sarge, another Princess standby we've seen (and
not liked) before...and magicians. It sorta hurt when we were in port
with the Costa Fortuna and heard some of her pax talking about the
Three Dog Night show on their cruise. Okay, so I'm a sucker for those
old groups that play the cruise circuit. ;) So this is why we rated
the entertainment fair...but like food, that's such a subjective
factor, others might have thought it was a bang up cruise in the
entertainment department.
So, thanks for reading my review. Where are you going next, Boomer?
Diana |