This is our second cruise to the Caribbean on the coral princess. While the ship is starting to show its age on a lot of different levels, we feel it is very well-designed.

This is the second year in a row that some of the ports work canceled or substituted due to weather. The seas were too choppy to dock in both Costa Rica and Grand Cayman, so while we did not visit either of these two spots, we did visit Belize Which was not on the scheduled itinerary. With the exception of the panama canal itself, the ports that we visited we're sort of uneventful. Carategenga is a big city without lovely : " old town" section. We were able to book a private tour for the four of us, with our own guide, in an air-conditioned van, for $50 each. As I recall, if you book the tour through princess, you were in a much larger group and it's probably closer to $75 a person. Not much to see in Colon, but there is a large grocery store right there if you need a few things. The visit to Aruba was really too short to do much I believe the hours for from about 8 AM till 12 noon.

With the exception of in different bartenders, which seems to be the case on almost all cruise ships, the staff on the coral princess was exceptional. we found the food very good bordering on excellent. Certainly an older demographic, we are in our mid 50s, and we're certainly part of the younger group. Read more