welcome back to our channel i'm stephen she's Andie and today we're going to compare our last
cruise on princess with this cruise on royal caribbean if you're new to the channel welcome
we're stephen and andie caffeinated travelers of the U.S. and beyond we've only been on two
cruises so far but today we're sharing what we liked and disliked about each one in a princess
versus royal caribbean face-off one of the first differences that we noticed when we embarked was
the color palette you may recall that when we were on our princess cruise we were commenting on how
it was kind of odd that it was only a few years old and yet it had this very 90s color palette
with like tans and gold we're really enjoying all the outdoor space here as far as inside let's say
it's a little beige maybe yeah a little dated but it's cool this ship definitely has a much more
contemporary color palette it's a bit brighter gray more of a neutral neutral not so much a
warm neutral and definitely feels a little bit more of the time on the flip side the atrium in
the princess cruise was very bright just they had this openness and that made it feel very
i don't know almost like we didn't feel so closed in and i definitely feel very enclosed
in something here they're going for kind of like a street vibe with cafes and restaurants and bars
and things kind of along it and you can see like windows here from people who have interior rooms
i guess they are and so they're facing in over this promenade area but yeah it definitely has
a very dark and enclosed feel it's not quite as open and airy feeling as on the princess cruise so
i think one point for each in terms of the decor and aesthetic here okay so one of our complaints
about the princess cruise was the pastries yeah and i gotta say the baked goods on the ship are
not great everything is really dry totally dry very unsatisfying so now we're gonna try the
pastries here on royal caribbean we got chocolate chip sticky buns and we're gonna take our first
test to see how the pastries compare let's check it out it feels soft it feels squishy i like it
pretty fresh we're gonna have to try one or two more just to make sure that we have a consistent
answer but right now i'm ready to give one point to royal caribbean for this one i decided i wanted
to try another pastry right away because i need to get to the bottom of this make sure that point holds so let's see
i got a chocolate donut i like chocolate in case you couldn't tell let's see
it's ok give its taste
it's all right yeah it's definitely better than the princess donuts were right
yeah i think so yeah all right so we decided to go with the scientific method here of repeatedly
testing our theory i went back and got a couple other pastries this is a raspberry
tart and this i don't remember the fancy name but it's basically a blueberry crumble donut
this is really good could be slightly fresher but way better than princess I'm sorry
okay so to sum up on the pastries i mean we're not talking about like small town
bakery fresh or anything in any of these instances but you know for cruise ship or resort food you
know we're going by those standards and i would say definitely royal caribbean has the win solid
the cookies were definitely better on princess okay we ordered room service here we also ordered
room service on the princess ship only it wasn't room service it was find us anywhere on the boat
service so that was really really cool here we had to look at the menu on our phones
and then call from the room and from there they bring it to our room now on princess
we had those little medallions that we wore and they had sensors all over the ship so we could
literally just go on the app we didn't have to call or wait to talk to anybody or anything just
in the app put in our orders tell them exactly what we want we could tell them where we were on
the ship if we wanted to but they delivered to any place on the ship not just your room
enjoy your dessert yes thank you there was no service charge at all here on royal caribbean
there's a 7.95 service charge so it's not bad but on princess it was totally free and they will find
you wherever you are on the ship so we were up at an observation deck just chilling in a little pod
of some kind in a little lounge area there all of a sudden there shows up our food it was amazing
we actually thought about running around the ship and just constantly moving and seeing
if they could actually locate us and still get our food to us but we decided to take it easy
and not do that maybe in the future though so i definitely easily give princess the point for that
one point for being able to find us anywhere on the ship one point for being able to order in app
and not have to call i mean phones are so 1900s aren't they and of course third point for princess
because there's no charge it was completely included no service charge no delivery charge none
of that it was all included in our fair so that is by far a win there have been so many staff and
crew on this ship that have been so incredibly friendly and helpful and just really great our
cabin steward tito has been fantastic mark who gets everybody to wash their hands at the buffet
is so funny and fun makes us smile every time we come here but there's also been a few people who
work here that just kind of can't be bothered like they don't really try to be very helpful and or
very friendly i really wanted to try a dessert but when i asked about it the guy at the counter just
grumbled that it takes a really long time to make and we just decided that like the vibe was no he
didn't feel like putting that order in for us so i didn't get it i mean i feel like for as corporate
as these things are these cruises and also just for how much they cost that that's not really okay
it's kinda bull💩
so i don't mean to be that entitled traveler because generally i think we're pretty chill about
stuff like this but it just struck me as a little bit odd after the standard that princess set
every person we have met on board the staff crew they are so friendly so helpful the service here
is incredible i do have to acknowledge that times are different right now right six months
ago when we cruised on princess they were trying to get people back and they hadn't cruised for a
really long time so they might have just been really happy to be working again i know i was
when i started working again so maybe that was a contributing factor maybe they're not always
so happy and cheerful and friendly and helpful as we found them to be the other difference might be
that that cruise was only about at 50 capacity whereas this one is like completely sold out
so maybe they're stressed because they're suddenly dealing with a lot more people
um so maybe that could have been a contributing factor but again really good training and customer
service should happen under i mean this is the way cruises should be and then the way they want
to be they want to be sold out they want to be at capacity so i think this is kind of the typical
for cruising so you would think that they would be okay with that but maybe you know they were a
little overwhelmed that's possible it's possible they were just over all of us 80s freaks i mean
i don't know maybe this is just weird to them and they just want to get back to their regular
cruisers that is certainly a possibility as well so i do acknowledge that in the circumstances may
have contributed some but i was really surprised because for the most part people have been
extremely friendly extremely helpful but then there were a few that just kind of couldn't be
bothered you know we would ask a question they'd just kind of be like i don't know whereas on
princess they would have been like oh i don't know let me help you find out and we didn't get that
here all right a couple more comparisons between this cruise and our princess cruise in alaska
first off this boat smells like i hate to say it but we're smelling sewage everywhere we go and the
bathrooms especially oh my gosh they are not good i went into one of the ladies rooms up by the pool
and it just did not smell good and it was like 80 degrees in there too which did not help and it's
not 80 degrees outside but i guess it's just like baking in the sun or something and it was just
not a good combination stephen went into a men's room near one of the dining places the other day
said it totally smelled like urine so we also had an issue with our toilet flushing when we first
got here the ship did send someone immediately they took care of it it was very quick so kudos
to them but there's definitely some plumbing stuff going on with this boat we frequently as we're
walking through just hit pockets of different decks where we're just like ooh it smells again
so something to note on the phone guys like my pop stopper overall we liked our princess cruise lines
room better than this one it was just a little less banged up i think and it was smaller but it
just looked a little less worn also the bed was a lot more comfortable i mean this one's fine
it's not terrible it's just a little bit stiff and that one just had that like cozy feel to
it you know what i mean so that's a point to princess however i also have to give a very
strong point to royal caribbean for this check it out we have this nice little dressing area here
and look at the placement of that full-length mirror i can check all angles i mean come on
that's brilliant i need this at home too i can do my hair make sure the back isn't looking
all messed up make sure everything's tucked in right and i'm not looking too janky i don't have
anything weird hanging out i love this definitely strong point for royal caribbean on this one
so about a tie as far as the rooms go because of that
can you hear that back there the audience is going crazy we just finished seeing berlin in concert on
the ship so if you haven't seen our other videos from this series make sure you check them out we
are on the 80s cruise and this thing is insane we made a whole video all about what the 80s cruise
is about we've also done another video about the food on this ship we've got two ports of call like
st maarten and st thomas so make sure you check out those videos as well thank you so much for
watching i think it's safe to say princess is the winner but the 80s cruise is the most fun
you'll ever have on a cruise doesn't matter what cruise line you're going on thank you so much
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