This was our first time on Princess after six cruises on Celebrity. If the 'Star' is representative of the Princess product it will probably be our last. First I'd like to say the staff was great. Everyone went out of their way to make the trip enjoyable. However, the staff can only work with the resources they are given and someone at the corporate level seems to have taken costs savings to a new high. The portions in the main dining room were unusually small and usually over cooked (scallops and lobster tail like rubber). The only ice cream we found outside of the dining room was on deck 14 by the pool. It was soft serve vanilla and chocolate and at best it was ice 'milk'. We ended up eating more evening meals at the buffet where you could at least make yourself a decent salad. The paper towels in the public restrooms were coarse and brown like something you would find in a backwoods gas station. Instead of hotel style individual soaps and shampoo there were large pump bottles of body wash and shampoo in the shower. The other couple we were traveling with had been on Princess 9 other times but not for a couple years. They were quite shocked at how much it had changed. We go on a cruise to feel pampered and 'special'. So many little things screamed 'cheap' that it really detracted from the cruise experience.