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Just returned from the 3/8 - 3/14 Caribbean Princess Spring Break voyage.

This was our 2nd year in a row we cruised Princess out of the Houston area and it once again proved to be an excellent trip overall.

The ship was in excellent shape, staff & service was very good.

Besides the 1st sea day(cloudy) the weather & sun was awsome the entire trip.

I would recommend this cruise to anyone.

If anyone has questions, I will try to help..........

　

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Glad you had a great trip! I'll be sailing her next month, and so glad The port is just a drive away.

Did you prepay parking, or pay once you arrived at the port? Curious if those that prepay have an assigned area to go to directly, or is there just one line for all.

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Glad you had a great trip! I'll be sailing her next month, and so glad The port is just a drive away.

Did you prepay parking, or pay once you arrived at the port? Curious if those that prepay have an assigned area to go to directly, or is there just one line for all.

 

We did pre-pay to save the $5 and it was a little faster because you just gave the guy your copy.

The lot is the same for everyone, no assigned areas.

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On another thread someone has been asking what times disembarkation is scheduled for the Princess xfers to HOU.

 

Do you have that info?

 

Sorry, We did the self disembark and were off by 8AM.

They were already letting people off at 7AM.

I did see all the buses were parked out front.

They had plenty of custom agent booths opened so there was no wait to get through..

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For some reason the ship got in very early.

I was out on the balcony at 1130PM on Fri night and the pilot boat was circling around the ship. We were right off Galveston.

My wife said we docked around 1AM.

All my other cruises we docked around 5-6AM...

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The early arrival back to Houston was due to a fog advisory from the port. The captain made several announcements about this. This is also the reason most of the bars, casino and shops closed at 10pm. The current captain has been very mindful of the passengers and the need to be proactive to prevent unneeded travel delays for them.

 

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The early arrival back to Houston was due to a fog advisory from the port. The captain made several announcements about this. This is also the reason most of the bars, casino and shops closed at 10pm. The current captain has been very mindful of the passengers and the need to be proactive to prevent unneeded travel delays for them.

 

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Has it always been no liquor when close to port? Of course casino/shops can not be open close to shore but since i do not drink never thougth of bars having to close.

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Due to Texas law only alcohol bought from distributors in Texas can be served on the ship while in Texas waters. This is the same for ships leaving Galveston too. In attempt to keep cost down the cruise lines buy minimal amounts to serve why in territorial waters. They also add tax to drinks once in Texas.

 

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The early arrival back to Houston was due to a fog advisory from the port. The captain made several announcements about this. This is also the reason most of the bars, casino and shops closed at 10pm. The current captain has been very mindful of the passengers and the need to be proactive to prevent unneeded travel delays for them.

 

I guess I didn't hear the announcements.

But the ship did not really seem to be cruising any faster the last 2 days..

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I am not sure there would have been much way to tell that we were going faster since the ship stayed between 18 - 20 knots everynight except one.

 

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Due to Texas law only alcohol bought from distributors in Texas can be served on the ship while in Texas waters. This is the same for ships leaving Galveston too. In attempt to keep cost down the cruise lines buy minimal amounts to serve why in territorial waters. They also add tax to drinks once in Texas.

 

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Very interesting, first time I have heard this, but makes sense.

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How were the hoards for kids/spring breakers? Does Princess still have their "Youth Patrol"? We were on the week prior with only 20 kids and were told 700 were expected last week :eek:

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How were the hoards for kids/spring breakers? Does Princess still have their "Youth Patrol"? We were on the week prior with only 20 kids and were told 700 were expected last week :eek:

 

 

What "Youth Patrol"? We didn't see any and wish there was! Final count of kids was right at 800! Most well behaved, but there is always some that don't act like they know what discipline is. Or their parents for that matter. Overall, we still enjoyed our trip. Just won't go at this time again.

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What "Youth Patrol"? We didn't see any and wish there was! Final count of kids was right at 800! Most well behaved, but there is always some that don't act like they know what discipline is. Or their parents for that matter. Overall, we still enjoyed our trip. Just won't go at this time again.

 

Princess used to have security walking around with bright yellow shirts that said Youth Patrol on the back of them. They were to keep the hoards of kids running around loose without parental control in line. We always used to cruise during spring break but now that our kids are out of school and married off, we prefer the first week in March just so we don't have to deal with so many kids.

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How were the hoards for kids/spring breakers? Does Princess still have their "Youth Patrol"? We were on the week prior with only 20 kids and were told 700 were expected last week :eek:

I heard the count was around 800. I didn't notice a youth patrol. Honestly, I hardly noticed the kids. I thought that they were well behaved. On the elevator one night, a child pushed the wrong button. He was very sweet and apologized for the extra stop right away. I wouldn't hesitate to book this cruise again.

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I didn't really think that the children were out of hand on this cruise. I also noticed that there were more children on the Thanksgiving cruise out of Houston than there were for the spring break cruise. I had only hoped that some of the adults on this cruise were as well behaved as the children were.

 

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This was my 6th Spring Break cruise in a row.

It was not the usual crowd mix I have seen in years past.

Definitely much more older people this time.

Missing was the abundance of kids 13 through 19.

I never saw any "youth patrol" at all..

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I heard the count was around 800. I didn't notice a youth patrol. Honestly, I hardly noticed the kids. I thought that they were well behaved. On the elevator one night, a child pushed the wrong button. He was very sweet and apologized for the extra stop right away. I wouldn't hesitate to book this cruise again.

 

I agree 100%.

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Did you go to the gym and notice what times the FREE classes were and what they were? Did you notice when the spin and yoga classes were and how much they were? Thanks for your help

 

 

Sorry, I only made it to the gym once. Didn't see anything about the classes.

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