Diamond Princess

This travelogue highlights a 7 night cruise to the Mexican Riviera on board the beautiful Diamond Princess (116,000 tons and 950 ft long).)

... a very late night I awoke at 4am to noises outside our hotel. Jumped out of bed and saw what the commotion was about - The Diamond Princess was docking - Yes right outside our window. I got Barb out of bed so she could experience it too. The ship was ...

... try to sell you the products they use during your treatments. We didn't buy any of the products when we both got a massage, but they tried hard to sell it to us. Mostly, we thought the Diamond Princess to be a very enjoyable ship to travel on for 7 ...

DIAMOND PRINCESS – 15/05/2011 - DAY 9 Three days since we were last ashore with six more to go before we reach Seward in Alaska on Friday, 2146 nautical miles away. It makes me wonder why the first explorers to sail these seas ever bothered.  ...

... that has paid and stewards to attend to any needs but it’s just not our cup of tea. After dinner we headed to the Princess Theatre to watch the first of the many shows that we’ll be attending during the course of the cruise.  This one ...

A day at sea as the ship travelled North towards the inside passage. It was an opportunity to look around the ship and get to know the facilities. There was a lecture by the on-board naturalist, but it turned out to be a slide show of pictures of ...

It was the day of the cruise, so it was an easy morning packing, checking out, and taking the metro to the Vancouver Waterfront. Getting on board early to avoid dragging the luggage around seemed like a good idea – but that reckoned on the cruise ...

... expect them for every meal from now on. The food was quite good and comparable to the quality level that we’ve experienced with Princess over the past few years and perhaps just a notch or two up from the fine fare we had with Norwegian last year. ...

Shiney met us at 9:30am for our 2 hour trip to Laem Chabang Port to catch our Princess Cruise Ship. He was nice enough to make an extra stop yesterday at the Asia Hotel so we could pre-check in for the Cruise. After a few wrong turns at the Port we ...

The Crown Princess had several design differences from the Grand and Diamond Princess ships. We thought all of the changes were improvements. The restaurants had bathrooms inside or near by which the other ships did not. There were extra ...

We set sail on April 17 and we spent 4 days at ...

... Talent Show - quite a number of acts and mostly good entertainment. After dinner we spent a short time watching the 'Sun Princess' dancers, then opted to go to the alternative show with Italian born Australian vocalist Tony Pentano. He sang a variety of ...

OK children, the lesson today is what happens when you cross the International Dateline (as, apparently, we did today). This is the official explanation as written in today's "Daily Patter", our daily paper.  “As we pass the International ...

More about the 4 person cabins.  On embarkation we had a “top bunk” challenge.  Would Ann be able to climb up there or not?  With a vast audience of oz-bussers I rose to the challenge and, old bones creaking, managed to haul ...

Yesterday we pulled into Vladivostok for the day but I decided to stay on board.  Nothing appealing about Russia and when everyone came back on board they said much the same.  Nothing to buy, nothing to see but at least, unusually for Russia, ...