Star Pride Review

4.5 / 5.0
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Circumnavigating Iceland on the Star Pride

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nirrhhabus
6-10 Cruises • Age 80s

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Sail Date: Aug 2018
Cabin: Ocean View Suite

The Star Pride is relatively small (abt 250) with everything scaled down to that size. Service was competent & friendly & more than sufficient to handle the guests efficiently. With all of the well publicized problems with virus transmission aboard ship, one would have expected a staff more focused on this issue. Although there were hand sanitizer stations available on the ship (e.g. outside of dining areas) the staff was not involved, at all, in encouraging passenger use as was the practice on other cruises. There seemed a fetish to learn every passenger's name by the 2nd day as if that would automatically elevate one's perception that it alone signified personal service. Perhaps that desire to provide personal service motivated some dining & cabin staff to inappropriately address guests by their given name. Food quality was uniformly superior. A free "specialty" restaurant (Candles) was disappointing. It was not special in any sense of the word. The space used for serving breakfast & lunch was utilized. The tables were "on top" of each other. The service was competent but not fine dining. The menu was limited. After our initial experience, we cancelled our future reservations there & chose to dine in the main dining room. The Fitness Center was poorly conceived--mediocre equipment was squeezed in to a too small low 'ceilinged' room that almost always felt crowded & somewhat unsafe because of that. Two different mediocre duos (keyboard & singer) provided the "entertainment." Too many of the shore excursions were excessively priced. For those who did not choose strenuous activities, they generally consisted of long boring bus tours sprinkled with differing quality of attractions. The disembarkation process was flawless as was the transfer to the airport.

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Ocean View Suite

Cabin S1

Cabin was well located amidship. It was quiet & spacious with lots of storage space. There was a spacious walk-in closet for hanging items as well as additional drawers & a safe. The bathroom was a large & included a double sink & a regular sized tub-shower combination. There was more than average bathroom storage space. The beds were too hard & an extra duvet on top of the mattress was necessary to soften the experience. The living room was large with a couch & 2 easy chairs.

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