We're scheduled to cruise at the end of June and it has not been a good experience yet. I heard such good things about Princess and already disappointed. I am understanding that there is a lot that has changed and they are trying to get caught up from COVID cancellations. We were supposed to take this cruise last June (2021) and it got rescheduled. When our cruise got rescheduled we were put on a different cruise with different destinations. Fine, we will go with the flow. There is 10 of us on this trip so we tried to schedule our excursions early with so many of us. Since then, one of our excursions has changed what they offer. We were also just notified that our ship is scheduled for routine engine maintenance and we will not be cruising full speed so we are leaving Seattle an hour earlier, a port has been removed from our itinerary (which cancels one of our excursions), we arrive at another port hours later (which is after one of our other excursions was supposed to start) and we have a reduced amount of time at this port as well as others. When I call to find out what we are supposed to do about that excursion, they said that they have no details for us so right now we just have to sit and wait. With 9 out of the 10 of us doing excursions, it's not that easy to get us all in another excursion. I feel bad for the customer service reps because the company hasn't really provided them any tools to handle these calls. I am hopeful that the actual trip is better than what my experience has been with them thus far but I'm already concerned.
I wrote the above May 10th. I have been reading the reviews go those who cruised in May and I'm even more concerned. I'm not sure how "scheduled maintenance " goes on for months. If anyone is on this trip now, is there still bathroom issues?
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