xmas new years cruise feedback 2013 island princess

[ckr31]

just booked a 15 day cruise on the Island Princess Dec 21,2013 to Jan 5 2014 has any one did maybe this cruise over Christmas and New years or any other if so how was it and can you give me your personal feedback.

[Cruisin' Chick]

We were on the 2005/06 holiday cruise on the Island, but back then it was doing Hawaiian cruises. Five years later, we did the exact same (even starting on the same date) cruise on the Golden.

Princess will have the ship all decorated by the time you board. The Xmas decorations come down on the 26th and are replaced by NY ones. For us, on both the Eves on both sailings, it was a formal dinner night. On NYE, there's parties with live bands all over the ship and a countdown and balloon drop in the grand atrium. And there's no worries about having to get home from a party on roads with people who may have been drinking a bit too much.:D

[ckr31]

thanks so much for that reply and brief review

[rdsqrl]

[COLOR=Indigo][FONT=Comic Sans MS]I did the Christmas/New Year's Canal cruise on the [I]Coral[/I], so some of this review won't apply to you. However, post #23 details a little about the Christmas part of the experience.[/FONT][/COLOR]

[url]http://boards.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?t=1125879&highlight=excessively+tardy[/url]

[ckr31]

Thanks Rd that added alot of light

[Love.II.Cruise]

[QUOTE=Cruisin' Chick;36293066]We were on the 2005/06 holiday cruise on the Island, but back then it was doing Hawaiian cruises. Five years later, we did the exact same (even starting on the same date) cruise on the Golden.

Princess will have the ship all decorated by the time you board. The Xmas decorations come down on the 26th and are replaced by NY ones. For us, on both the Eves on both sailings, it was a formal dinner night. On NYE, there's parties with live bands all over the ship and a countdown and balloon drop in the grand atrium. And there's no worries about having to get home from a party on roads with people who may have been drinking a bit too much.:D[/QUOTE]

We were on that cruise and got off in Maui and got married at the Westin Maui, had our reception on board with guests that didn't cruise (some did cruise with us). We partied it up later by the pool with our cruise guests.

Cruisin' Chick is right about it being very nicely decorated. We recently went back on Island Princess for our honeymoon for a partial transit Panama Canal cruise - it was nicely renovated and the Christmas decorations were still up (we boarded on Dec. 29). You can see pre-New Year's Eve decorations on our review... [URL="http://boards.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?t=1586027"]http://boards.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?t=1586027[/URL]

[rdsqrl]

[COLOR=Indigo][FONT=Comic Sans MS]You're welcome.

I hope you have as wonderful a time as I did.
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