Sapphire Princess Review
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10+ Cruises • Age 60s
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Sail Date: Jan 2019
Cabin: Balcony
Left Heathrow on 4/1 on my least favourite airline - British Airways, flight was uncomfortable and food was mediocre, as British Airways always is.
Shanghai - An airport and a cruise terminal to be avoided. Endless form filling, endless fingerprint scans, endless photos, endless baggage scans. Then we were told that the ship will be late docking due to poor weather visibility. Thankfully Princess arranged several coaches for a tour of Shanghai including a lunch and visits, we were shattered and just couldn't muster any enthusiasm and losing the will to live! Eventually got to the Cruise Terminal and more fingerprint scans, more photos and more baggage scans, then a long route march to the ship, and so to bed!
Nagasaki - A very interesting city that we visited on a Princess tour and a city I would like to revisit.
Cabin Review
Balcony
Cabin BE
This is the second time we've stayed in this cabin and as usual it is a reasonable size and well equipped with a very comfortable bed and fully functioning bathroom.
Port Reviews
Nagasaki
Very interesting tour and was pleased that the guide had pitched the atomic bomb neutrally in that she was not anti-American and did not portray Japan as downtrodden.
Shanghai
This was a free tour to keep us occupied as the ship was several hours late docking, but we were all tired from the overnight flight from London, stressed out by Chinese Immigration and had all lost the will to live!
Hong Kong
Ignored all advice from the Port Lecturer as she kept harping on about Kowloon, Kowloon, and Kowloon yet ignoring the existence of Hong Kong Island. We have friends and family on the Island and so they were our guides especially when we rode on Hong Kong's amazing little trams!!
Koh Samui
Interesting tour of Ko Samui visiting two Buddhas and watching monkeys picking coconuts. Weather was against us.
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