Are these views from personal experience or from posts found on the boards?
I enjoy Princess very much. We sailed in September, along with 13 other sailings on Princess, and I find the food and variety great. Staff was wonderful. Only thing really missing was the chocolate on the pillow. You can opt to have room service just as in the past but we opted to have once a day. I really don't need my bed turned down. We are leaving Sunday back to Alaska and are looking forward to the experience with all expectation that it may be short staffed but I'm on vacation so I can wait an extra 10 or 20 minutes.