点评:Just finished 7 day cruise on Discovery Princess - Whittier to Vancouver- with stops in Icy Strait Point, Juneau and Ketchikan. The Discovery Princess is a beautiful ship and immaculately maintained. The staff are very friendly and very helpful. Generally the food is very good and the two shows we saw were great.
But there were issues that soured my experience. They advertise 3 Main Dining Rooms. But only one is open for breakfast and it doesn’t open until 7:30 for breakfast. And if you go ashore on port days and want to come back on the ship for lunch there are no main dining rooms open and no special restaurants open. If you want lunch you have two choices. You can go to the buffet or go up to deck 16 for Salty Dog Grill or Slice Pizza. But in Alaska it’s too cold generally to sit on the pool deck.
We ate at O’Malleys Pub, Gigi’s Pizzeria, Crown Grill, Catch by Rudy and Sabatini’s Italian Trattoria. With a few minor exceptions the food was exceptional. But the main dining rooms and O’Malleys and Gigi’s should be open more.
Another problem were the elevators and general ship layout. Not just on embarkation day, but every day the elevators just didn’t work. Elevators would not stop when you called for one, but would instead pass right by your floor. Almost everyone who commented about the elevators was frustrated with the elevators. And to make matters worse the staff used the elevator lobbies for photo shoots. They would set up lights and cameras and backdrops almost completely blocking the lobbies. They also blocked the stairs for photos.
The other huge problem was the activities in the piazza. Several bars, Sabatini’s, Gigi’s, International Cafe, O’Malleys and even Catch by Rudy are located just off the piazza. When you are trying to eat and talk with your table mates the noise is a problem. They have loud games, Zumba classes, dance competitions and music within a space less than 30 feet in some places of dining venues. Don’t like that.
We bought excursions through Princess and in Ketchikan they left us standing in the rain 20 minutes after the scheduled time before we could get on the bus and get out of the rain.
翻译:刚完成了一次为期7天的“发现公主号”邮轮之旅——从惠蒂尔出发,途经艾基海峡角、朱诺和凯奇坎,最终抵达温哥华。这艘“发现公主号”真是漂亮极了,保养得也极其良好。工作人员非常友善且乐于助人。整体来说,食物也很不错;我们观看的两场演出也相当精彩。
不过,也有一些问题破坏了我的体验。他们宣传说有3个主餐厅,但实际上只有1个在早餐时段开放,而且要到7点半才开始供应早餐。如果在靠港日您上岸游玩后想返回船上吃午餐,会发现主餐厅及其他特色餐厅均不营业。此时您有两个选择:要么去自助餐厅,要么前往16层甲板的Salty Dog Grill或Slice Pizza店。不过在阿拉斯加,天气通常太冷,不适合坐在泳池甲板上用餐。
我们曾在O’Malleys Pub、Gigi’s Pizzeria、Crown Grill、Rudy主理的Catch餐厅以及Sabatini’s Italian Trattoria用餐。除了少数例外情况,所有餐厅的菜品都堪称出色。不过,主要的餐厅、O’Malleys和Gigi’s应该开放得更久一些。
另一个问题就是电梯以及整艘船的布局。不只是在登船当天,而是每天电梯都无法正常使用。当你呼叫电梯时,它并不会停在你所在的楼层,而是直接从你面前经过。几乎所有对电梯发表过意见的人都对它感到不满。更糟糕的是,工作人员还利用电梯厅来拍摄照片。他们会架设灯光、摄像机和背景布,几乎把大堂完全遮挡住。他们还封锁了楼梯以供拍照之用。
另一个大问题是广场上的各种活动。萨巴蒂尼酒吧、吉吉酒吧、国际咖啡馆、奥马利酒吧,甚至鲁迪经营的Catch餐厅都位于广场附近。当你试图与同桌的人边吃饭边交谈时,周遭的嘈杂声就成了问题。那里有喧闹的游戏活动和尊巴课程。在一些餐饮场所内,跳舞比赛和音乐表演就在不到30英尺的区域内进行。我不喜欢这样。
我们通过公主邮轮购买了旅游项目,但在凯奇坎,约定时间过后20分钟他们才让我们上巴士,期间我们只能站在雨中。