Category Archives: Princess

Fort Lauderdale Cruise Port

Fort Lauderdale sits on the coast of Florida about 30 miles north of Miami. Besides being a vacation destination on its own it also hosts one of the larger cruise ports. It is one of the busiest ports in the … Continue reading

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Cruise Ship Cabins on Enchanted Princess

Like all cruise ships, Enchanted Princess has a variety of different staterooms people can choose from when booking a cruise, ranging from the least expensive inside cabins to the most expensive suites. The four major cruise ship cabin categories are … Continue reading

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Cruising Ducks

Hiding and finding ducks has become a popular pastime on cruise ships. It all started when a 10-year-old girl named Abby brought 50 ducks to hide on a Carnival cruise in 2018. Jeep ducking started in 2020 in Canada. That … Continue reading

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Enchanted Princess

When sailing on a medallion class ship like Enchanted Princess, you have an option of either having your medallion sent to you pre-cruise, in which you pay a fee for the postage, or you can pick it up at the … Continue reading

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Royal Princess Hits and Misses

Hits and Misses  on the Royal Princess Hits and misses are usually my opinion of what I did and didn’t like on a cruise, but this time I have some input from one of my sisters as well. As usual … Continue reading

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Killing Time in Vancouver

My sisters and I disembarked the Royal Princess in Vancouver in the morning, with hours to kill before our evening train. During normal times Amtrak runs two trains daily on the Amtrack Cascades route from Eugene, Oregon to Vancouver BC, … Continue reading

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Vancouver Cruise Ship Port

Vancouver Vancouver, Canada is referred to as Vancouver B.C. (for British Columbia), at least by Washingtonians because Washington State in the USA also has a city named Vancouver. North of Washington and west of the Canadian mainland there is also … Continue reading

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Cruising the West Coast

Boarding the Royal Princess in Los Angeles, California was a much easier process than their pre-cruise emails made it sound. After having been told just a couple weeks before the cruise that we couldn’t get on the ship until 2:30pm … Continue reading

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Things to do on the Royal Princess

On the Royal Princess, the ship itself has a variety of things to do without going to organized functions, but of course the daily newsletter called Princess Patter offers up plenty of those as well. The daily schedule included things like … Continue reading

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Seattle Center

The highlight of the Seattle Center is the symbol of Seattle itself, the Space Needle, built for the 1962 world fair, as was the Seattle Center itself. Back then it was the tallest building in Seattle, but now it’s not … Continue reading

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