We last sailed on Princess about 15 years ago at least. Since then we have sailed a lot of Carnival (because other people we were sailing with chose it) and several Celebrity and one Royal Caribbean. We were originally sailing on Carnival out of Galveston in January but there are mechanical issues being fixed during our cure necessitating a change in itinerary and we were offered the chance to get refund if we wished to cancel which several of our traveling companions decided to do. We are considering switching to the Ruby Princess which has the same itinerary as the Vista, where we had Havana cabins booked, which was was fine with us but we thought this gave us a chance to try Princess again. We are also looking at switching from Carnival Miracle cruise to Hawaii Oct 2023 and going with the Sapphire Princess to Hawaii instead. All would be in Club suites with premier option as we are splurging for out 50th anniversary with a bunch of cruises My concern is that it seems there have been a lot of negative reviews recently for Princess for these ships. I usually take reviews with a grain of salt and I know there have been a lot of complaints about Carnival as well cutting back and blaming post covid issues on a lot of it too but it seems like more issues/complaints with Princess. Am I really seeing the true picture. Has Princess really gotten that bad lately? Especially to the point I should stick with Carnival after all? We have already booked the Caribbean Princess for next August to Greenland, just hoping we didn’t make a mistake.
