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As a local who is very concerned about the plan to dump 500 migrants in a remote island community with too few police officers to cope, I can't believe Princess Cruises are planning to continue stopping at Portland Port when they are going to be putting a migrant barge right next to where the ship docks, tons of safety concerns for passengers! The itinery makes Portland sound amazing but there's no warning of the migrant boat being placed in the second worst funded area for police in the UK.. How can this be legal, let alone safe? What happens when passengers start getting attacked? Not enough safety information being provided in the itinery, this is dangerous!

All in all, nice ship, great cabins, very good food, so so service, great in some places, tired and forced in others. Please beware of the extra tips, they are not mandatory and are too high. We were told they are pretty much mandatory by Princess, turned out they weren't, we got the refund eventually. Spa is amazing though, outside area standard and nice, not much to do outside apart form ok mini golf and nice pools/Jacuzzis, sadly people stay in those for 3 hours, they are not private!

Princess Cruises - Why are the pools freezing cold? On my last 3 Princess cruises (Caribbean Princess May 2022, Regal Sept 2022, Enchanted Princess Jan 2023), the pools were too cold to swim. I asked one of the Engineering crew why? He told me they keep them between 23 Deg C (73 Deg F) and 30 Deg C (86 Deg F). The pools were probably 73 Deg Fahrenheit. This is way too cold for me and most of the other cruisers as the pools were empty of any swimmers. Princess needs to keep the pool temperature higher, between 78 Deg F and 86 Deg F, 80 - 84 Deg F would be perfect. I didn't enjoy my time on the ship for this reason and I'm hesitant to book another cruise with Princess.

Went on a short 4 night trip from Southampton on 15/4 and the bar and room service was absolutely shocking. WAY understaffed, we often had to wait well over 30 minutes for our drinks order to arrive - if it ever did - which is not what you want when you have paid for the drinks package. Drinks to room service also even slower, we ordered a coupleo f bottles of water on the last night about 9pm , nothing ever arrived despite the App saying it had been delivered. I reckon a good 50+ staff short across all the bars & delivery services. Sky Princess was going to dry dock for a couple of weeks after our cruise ended so I think they had kept staffing to an absolute minimum as running things down. Also the entertainment wasn't as good as on our previous trips - there were a couple of Asian assistant cruise directors who had trouble with pronounciation for the quizzes and gameshows which wasnt what you need when playing. That said Paul and Sarah, the two cruise directors in charge, did a very good job. Will be going back to Royal Caribbean next time.

Currently on the Caribbean Princess. Ship is overcrowded & understaffed. Queues for food especially on sea days. Very few quiet areas as they seem intent on ‘entertaining’ you come what May. Back to Celebrity next time.