Just back from Caribbean Princess

[BB5953]

Has anyone been on Celebrity Summit? I am looking for comparisons on the Summit and the Caribbean Princess. Any help would be appreciated as it looks like X will be kicking me off my cruise...

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[nick1234]

Our pillows were hard as a rock! There must be 2 kinds of pillows on board because they were not fluffy at all

Ali

[jerseygirl3]

On our recent Majesty of the Seas cruise, we felt the dining service was going too fast. We simply asked the waiter to slow it down between courses. From that point on, our courses were served in a nice, leisurely manner.

I wonder if you had asked the same how things would have gone?

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[CruiseNut7]

BB5953 -

Just returned last Friday from a 7 day on the Celebrity SUMMIT. Also sailed on the STAR Princess last September. As you probably know, the STAR and the Caribbean Princess are sister ships and almost identical.

If your SUMMIT cruise falls through, I would have no reservation in recommending Princess. On the STAR, we enjoyed fine service, excellent food, wonderful entertainment and particularly personal choice dining.

On the SUMMIT we experienced the same, but the deal breaker for us in future bookings will be the personal choice dining. Although many cruisers enjoy traditional, my preference is to have my meals at a time of my choosing. With that in mind, Princess Cruise Lines best suits us!

Hope this helps in some way! Happy sailing. [img]http://messages.cruisecritic.com/infopop/emoticons/icon_cool.gif[/img]

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[nick1234]

I thought the sister ship to the Carribean Princess was not built yet. I think the problem with PC dining on the Carribean Princess is the extra 500 people, and the fact that so many people wanted private tables ( 2 to 4 ) We waited 35 to 40 minutes the 2 times we went to the dining room
Ali

[soozaay]

I'm going on the Caribbean Princess in September...I have always traveled on RCCL, and have never experienced PC cruising...can someone explain to me how it works (or is supposed to work [img]http://messages.cruisecritic.com/infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif[/img] )

Thanks!

Susie & Harry

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Enchantment of the Seas 11/4/01 (Got Engaged!)

[Marlene & Jim]

Just got back from the May1-8 Caribbean Princess. PC dining was great. You can eat any time between 5 and 10 pm and don't have to feel like you are tied to the clock. Depending on what your day is like, you can choose to eat early so you can catch all the shows or you can take a nap, eat later, and stay up late. The food was excellent. Never felt we needed to pay for the Sterling Steakhouse. The ice cream bar cost money, but several afternoons the buffet served ice cream with sauces and toppings for free! Look for it before you pay for ice cream at Scoops.

Marlene & Jim

[Marlene & Jim]

Another thing, in response to the person who said they were stingy with the food, ARE YOU KIDDING??? Every time we commented how good something was, the waiter wanted to bring us more.

Marlene & Jim

[roe2ship]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by nick1234:
I thought the sister ship to the Carribean Princess was not built yet. I think the problem with PC dining on the Carribean Princess is the extra 500 people, and the fact that so many people wanted private tables ( 2 to 4 ) We waited 35 to 40 minutes the 2 times we went to the dining room
Ali<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

I thought they started to hand out pagers now for the PC Dining just like they do on the Grand Class ships? Did they not offer this to you, or maybe you have to be the one to ask? Any others on Caribbean Princess with PC that know about this?

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[Cruisinforever]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by marlinmike:
Cruisinforever,
Thanks for your review of the PC dining. Just as I suspected, most of the problems in waiting for for the smaller tables or limited groups. We like the eat anytime, with anyone dining. Which dining room did you attend the majority of the time?<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

marlinmike, we started off eating in the Coral (I think... I think the Island is for traditional) and that is the dining room that we did seem to wait for, and we felt that we waited a bit longer for our drinks there. About mid-cruise we ate in the Palm dining room, and loved it. We felt the service was a notch better, and we always got in right away when we said we'd share the table.

Robert from Poland was my favorite waiter! Funny and very sweet.....

roe2ship: yes, we did use the pagers twice when we ate at the Coral dining room. Never had to have one at the Palm.

Even when we did have to wait for dinner at the Coral dining room, it wasn't a bad thing nor am I complaining. It was not any different from waiting here at home for a table when a restaurant is busy, except that I had more fun on the ship! [img]http://messages.cruisecritic.com/infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]

JJ
Caribbean Princess 5/1/04
Star Princess 5/24/03
Sun Princess 6/12/00
Carnival Fantasy 1/18/98

[roe2ship]

JJ, thanks, that is what I thought. Then I don't understand why some are so upset about their wait.

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[nick1234]

We did get pagers. But still waited .We put our name in at one resturant. The one on the same deck as the purser, then when we got beeped we went to that dining room and they brought us downstairs to the other one. Sorry cant remember the names of the resturants they all looked alike!I feel our problem was we only wanted a table for 4.

Ali

[soozaay]

Roe2Ship~

What a small World....I see you live in Brick, NJ....I live in Lakewood...right off of 70 at Vermont Ave.

Susie & Harry

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Enchantment of the Seas 11/4/01 (Got Engaged!)

[Pam in CA]

I didn't know a sister ship to the Caribbean Princess was even planned. I thought it was going to be a one-and-only. Anyone know more about that? (The Star is a Grand-class ship, not Caribbean.)

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[spongerob]

The announcement that a sister to Caribbean Princess was in the works was made during the Captain's Circle gathering. I think the expected date is during 2006.

Completed:
Sea Princess, Royal Princess, Grand Princess (3X), Caribbean Princess, Golden Princess
Coming up:
Tahitian Princess Oct 14/04
Caribbean Princess redux 6/25/05

[roe2ship]

Hi Soozaay,

We are about 5-7 miles away. We live right next to Brick Hospital. Sure is a very small world.

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