Scary New Pearl Review

[Yankee123]

We sailed the Pearl in June, and loved every bit of it. My in laws cruised with us and it was their first cruise and they loved it. They couldn't find one thing to complain about. It was my son's first cruise, and the staff couldn't have been more accommodating and friendly. I would cruise on the Peal again in a heart beat.:D

[dudboom]

We just came off the Pearl after our cruise to Alaska the first week in August. The staff was the friendliest we have encountered in a long time. The ship was beautiful. The cabins were spotless and so was the balcony door!

 

My husband told me to put money down on a future cruise on the Pearl, he never says that! I think we may take a repositioning cruise through the Panama Canal in 2 years. Next year is about full with cruises already!

[odblnt]

We just came off the Pearl after our cruise to Alaska the first week in August. The staff was the friendliest we have encountered in a long time. The ship was beautiful. The cabins were spotless and so was the balcony door!

 

My husband told me to put money down on a future cruise on the Pearl, he never says that! I think we may take a repositioning cruise through the Panama Canal in 2 years. Next year is about full with cruises already!

 

 

 

Basically, that is what we did. We took our first cruise (on the Pearl), bought the Cruise Rewards certificate, and booked the Panama Canal on the Pearl.

 

One month to go!!! :D

 

(Sure hope the hurricane season dies down before then.)

[CC Help Michell]

I know, I know....reviews that blast everything about a ship and cruise need to be taken with a huge grain of salt, but the latest one compares the Pearl to being on a prison ship!

 

Please, recent Pearl passengers, refute the negativity of this reviewer!

 

Thanks.

 

Okay, forget you ever read that fairly useless one, and try this Pearl Alaska review, posted today -- http://www.cruisecritic.com/memberreviews/memberreview.cfm?EntryID=45461

 

Pay attention to the part where that reviewer was also worried about some of the random negative Pearl Reviews. A great cruise experience is controlled about 10% by the ship, and about 90% by you and your attitude -- at least in my opinion, and somehow I've never yet had a bad cruise vacation. :)

 

You do have to be a bit proactive in advance -- read your documents, know the policies, do your homework. I really think a huge percentage of negative reviews (on all lines) come from people who had a mental image and expectation of how their cruise/cabin/dining would be, but they hadn't done any research to make sure that their ship in fact operated the way they expected it to.

 

For example, yes I understood a few months ago when NCL implemented dining surcharges in most specialty restaurants, and people surprised by the changed policy were upset and came back to post about it. But it's been 6+ months now -- there's honestly no excuse for people to come post a rant now about how there's a surcharge for the specialty restaurants. If they'd informed themselves, they'd have known that, and if they didn't like it, they could have chosen a different cruiseline. I have a lot of trouble holding a cruise line or a ship responsible for not meeting someone's unreasonable/unfounded expectations, especially when with a minimum of effort (looking at the restaurant descriptions on the NCL website) the person would have realized that most specialty dining carries a surcharge -- the website says "exceptional value, worth the price" for them. It doesn't say that for the main dining rooms, Blue Lagoon, the buffet, etc.

[CanadianTwosome]

Okay, forget you ever read that fairly useless one, and try this Pearl Alaska review, posted today -- http://www.cruisecritic.com/memberreviews/memberreview.cfm?EntryID=45461

 

Pay attention to the part where that reviewer was also worried about some of the random negative Pearl Reviews. A great cruise experience is controlled about 10% by the ship, and about 90% by you and your attitude -- at least in my opinion, and somehow I've never yet had a bad cruise vacation. :)

 

You do have to be a bit proactive in advance -- read your documents, know the policies, do your homework. I really think a huge percentage of negative reviews (on all lines) come from people who had a mental image and expectation of how their cruise/cabin/dining would be, but they hadn't done any research to make sure that their ship in fact operated the way they expected it to.

 

For example, yes I understood a few months ago when NCL implemented dining surcharges in most specialty restaurants, and people surprised by the changed policy were upset and came back to post about it. But it's been 6+ months now -- there's honestly no excuse for people to come post a rant now about how there's a surcharge for the specialty restaurants. If they'd informed themselves, they'd have known that, and if they didn't like it, they could have chosen a different cruiseline. I have a lot of trouble holding a cruise line or a ship responsible for not meeting someone's unreasonable/unfounded expectations, especially when with a minimum of effort (looking at the restaurant descriptions on the NCL website) the person would have realized that most specialty dining carries a surcharge -- the website says "exceptional value, worth the price" for them. It doesn't say that for the main dining rooms, Blue Lagoon, the buffet, etc.

 

Thanks MichellP! That was a nice review... I just have one question now... does anyone know what the 20/20/20 program in the casino is?

[Sooners]

If the Pearl is a Prison ship then I need to commit a crime so they will lock me up for awhile....a year at sea on the Pearl sounds like a good punishment for me.:D

[brnsofia]

just want to say we sailed on royal carribean mariner this past end of june and they did run out of some food like lots of desserts, cc cookies, ice cream in the machines. I asked what was going on and they said they have run out of certain things. this was 2 days before ship returned. so ships do run out of some kinds of food in certain areas of the ship