Dawn Princess

Pros: Nice staff.
Cons: Fraught with hawking; few quiet spots; run-down feel.

This is a review of the Dawn Princess from the point of view of a mother of a 2-year-old, first-time cruise passenger, and professor. This ship is really not recommended for parents of young children - or people with particular aesthetic expectations. ...

Pros: Beautiful, fun ship
Cons: None

We sailed on the Dawn last April in the Southern Carribean itinerary. We visited Barbados, St. Lucia, St. Kitts, St, Maarten and St Thomas.

We've been on 5 cruises, including the Crown Princess, and I must say that the ship, its crew, the...

Pros: Excellent service
Cons: Dominant older age groups

There is no better time to cruise the Inside Passage to Anchorage, and no better cruise line! We sailed northward at the end of May, and the weather was 50-60 degrees nearly every day (quite warm for glacier country). The Princess team did not let my...

Pros: Great Security, Great Staff,Great Ports
Cons: 10 Days are Better than 7, but still not enough

Every port we went to our ship was the only one to put a security tender boat into the water to patrol around our ship & several large keep back 50 meters banners off the ships side, it made us feel very secure. All our trips on this ship have been...

Pros: The price was an excellent deal for a 7 day Alaskan Cruise !
Cons: Seemed they were trying to get every dollar out for even non alcoholic drinks

This was our 4th cruise , the best location and also the best value to date! The ports of call were fantastic and priced fairly .

The new way they take gratuities (automatic) to your bill has pro's and con's . I feel this could reward sub...

Pros: Scenery, service, & entertainment as well as food quality and presentation
Cons: Princess excursions are a bit pricey, but very enjoyable. The art auctions are annoying.

Sorry you had a bad experience aboard the Dawn Princess but we had the opposite opinion. We sailed Alaska's Inside Passage 7 years ago on the Dawn with our family of four. The children were age 10 and 11. We all had a wonderful time. This past summer ...

Pros: Giving great apologies & gifts
Cons: not doing so when incidents happened

Princess Cruiselines is a class act. I sent the previous review to them & in 2 weeks we received a long letter thanking us for various compliments regarding their ports chosen as well as staff.

They were thankful that we pointed out areas...

Pros: Ship, crew, Alaska, cruise
Cons: Love Boat film crew on board

Since the Dawn Princess we have cruised several times. Nothing has matched trip, with the exception of the Love Boat film crew and stars, since. Blocked rest rooms, held elevators (??Stars will hold an elevator for 30 minutes}, constant radio chatter by...

Pros: great staff, great fun, wonderful places to see
Cons: small room

In December of 1998 I went on a Princess Cruise with my family. We visited a different place each day with a full day on the ship on Christmas day. We visited such places as St. Thomas, Dominica, Grenada, Venezuela, and Aruba. All of the places were...

Pros: Personal Choice Cruising.
Cons: None.

We recently took a cruise-tour of Alaska and Canada, abourd Princess' beautiful Dawn Princess. The marveluos vessel is much bigger than the 600 passenger Orient Lines' Marco Polo that I traveled on twice. It holds 3000 people. (2000 passengers and 1000...

Pros: Personal Choice Cruising.
Cons: None.

We recently took a cruise-tour of Alaska and Canada, aboard Princess' beautiful Dawn Princess. The marvelous vessel is much bigger than the 600 passenger Orient Lines' Marco Polo that I traveled on twice. It holds 3000 people. (2000 passengers and 1000...

Pros: Wonderful cruise - watched for good "deal" and all went so well.
Cons: At this time, there really are no "cons"...it's a great ship!

May, 2006, we cruised the Inside Passage on the Dawn. We felt the food the best of any cruises we'd done. Oct.,2007,we did same ship on Mexican Riviera. Everything was just fabulous! Our cabin steward was thorough, prompt, and actually took the time to be friendly and "know" us. We had a fantastic dining room waiter--opps! waitress....She was from the Ukraine and wonderful. The service was just out-of-this world. We asked if the chef was the same as our cruise from May,2006. He was. I really feel it must be his standards that keep the food what it is. Perhaps we've cruised enough that the evening entertainment sort of "pales".....they try, but we both get tired of the constant high-energy singing, dancing, jokes that hinge on the "edge"....but you don't have to stay there. And we didn't always. We went with good friends which makes a cruise so much more enjoyable--but I was sorry to hear that this ship will be transferred to Austrailia and that portion of the globe in another year. We really enjoy cruising with Princess--and this was our 3rd time on the Dawn.

Pros: Kids center so there is lots of new friends.
Cons: Dinner lines were long if you did not reserve.

This Cruise was one of the best family vacations. My family went this last Christmas and I was very excited to see that they put up all of the fun holiday decorations. They really took the extra time with the special holiday season. Another thing we loved was the food! The food was terrific and the workers (waiters/waitresses, cooks, cleaning, etc.) were all very friendly and helpful. The one thing that really sticks out to me is how the cooks and waiters were very helpful with a food allergy my family has. They were more than willing to double check ingredients despite how many other people they were helping. Family anytime dinning was the best way to go, because rounding up all of the family for a specific time was very hard. I would also do a few formal nights!The lines to get off the boat in the different ports were very long so I would recommend either waking up really early or sleeping in to miss the boarding and un-boarding lines. Over all this was a really great family oriented cruise and I would recommend it to anyone.

Pros: The crew was excellent. Very customer friendly.
Cons: Quantity of the food in the dining room was smaller than other cruise lines.

This is my 5th cruise but my first time w/Princess Cruise Lines. It was average and met my expectation. Smooth embarkation & disembarkation process. Surprisingly, eventhough the cruise was completely booked, the ship was not crowded. There were very few wait times in line, etc. The entertainment however was definitely below average. Their singers and dancers and their shows overall were not entertaining. However the other entertainers such as the illusionist, comedian, juggler were fun to watch. The cruise director was not very involved and had a dry sense of humor. Other than that the quality of the food was good, staterooms average, and personnel were very customer friendly. Overall, I'd recommend this particular cruise for first timers. There are definitely other cruise lines that I would recommend for those who are experienced cruisers.