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With Reuben Goossens

Cruise’n’Travel Journalist / Cruise Reviewer & Maritime Historian

Princess Cruises

Dawn Princess

Welcome to the most extensive online MV Dawn Princess photo page & ship review

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Dawn Princess seen during her maiden call to Brisbane on October 28, 2008

Berthed at the Brisbane “Portside Cruise Terminal”

Please Note: Photographs on this feature were taken by the author, except for those marked “Carnival Plc/Princess Cruises” and those taken by cruise-australia’s associate Kosta Specis.

This page has been updated with further comments and photographs by Kosta Specis and the author

And forgive me for my total honesty, having sailed on her 2009 around the world cruise - Reuben Goossens

As MV Dawn Princess departed Sydney on October 26, 2008, she had finally joined her sister ship the Sun Princess as an Australian based Princess Cruises ship. Sun Princess has been gracing our shores for some time and her popularity had become so great, a second ship was envisioned, thus the slightly newer 1997 built Dawn Princess was added to the Australian fleet.

Dawn Princess’ first cruise was a 28 night Australian circumnavigation, with its first port of call being Brisbane where the author was invited onboard to tour the ship and enjoy a superb lunch in the Venetian Restaurant along with the other passengers aboard.

This page contains a photographic review and it covers all of the ships public rooms and facilities. I trust that it will provide you with an ideal view of this magnificent 77,000-ton 295 meter long cruise ship.

Many who will read this page may have sailed with Princess Cruises in the past and will already know about the excellent service that the American Princess ships are so famed for! The food on a Princess ship was known as the ultimate and the entertainment onboard was also superb. The author has sailed with Princess Cruises many times (at own expense) and is an “Elite Captains Club” member and from my experiences in the past, I have always highly recommend cruising with Princess Cruises. Some ask me, “Is a Princess Cruise not more expensive?” I can honestly say that it certainly does not have to be, for you should always check the travel pages in your local weekend newspaper or your travel agent, for there are special fares available at certain times. I find that for just a little extra you will receive additional value for your money, such as free 24 hour room service, 24 hour free dinning, optional free dinning options, big screen outdoor movies (although I found this to be somewhat useless during my 2009 world cruise), and the list goes on!

Maintenance is never ending to keep this ship in perfect shape

The ships sheer size is evident from the size of the men on the raft

Before we board this fine ship, let’s review a few facts about the Dawn Princess: She is the younger sister of the Sun Princess and the two ships are the largest based full-time in Australia, but it is a fact that these two ships are part of the oldest trio of ships still in the Princess fleet, the third of the series being the Sea Princess. However, the Dawn Princess is the newest and the youngest ship ever to be based in Australia having been built in 1997 and she was christened by the cast of the original “Love Boat.” Many may not be aware, but the Dawn Princess is larger than the famed Cunard liner QE2 which was 70,300-tonnes, whilst the Dawn Princess is larger at 77,000-tonnes. If she was to be placed on her stern, she would be 31m taller than the world’s tallest residential tower, being the Q1 on the Gold Coast. Now we know that she is a big ship, yet amazingly once onboard you will discover that she has the feel of a ship that is also an intimate one, and her lay out is such that you will find that finding your way around the ship, a breeze! Yet for her size you will find that she is an intimate ship as she only accommodates some 1,950 passengers, whereas many other ships from 30,400-tonnes and even smaller may well accommodate over 2,000 passengers, thus there is room to move on the ship!

Now, let’s go onboard and explore the Dawn Princess!

Dawn Princess towers high above the apartments built at Portside Cruise Terminal Brisbane

This will be the first venue you will see when you board Dawn Princess - the Grand Plaza Atrium

The Grand Plaza Atrium – Decks 5, 6, 7 & 8

We walk from the bottom to the top

Externally Dawn Princess is identical to her sister Sun Princess. Internally, I soon found that there are a few slight differences, as her timber work is lighter and she features a multitude of different art works throughout the ship. In addition her two Main Restaurants have different names.

As you board this ship the Grand Plaza greets you with its sheer grandeur. We boarded on Deck 5, being the location of the Information Desk (starboard), there is a lounge located in the middle. Next to the stairs and the glass domed lifts is a fountain with sculpture, a band stand and dance floor. The Patisserie Coffee Lounge is located on the portside.

Two glass dome lifts are a feature of the Atrium

Deck 5 - Grand Plaza Lounge looking towards the Patisserie

The Patisserie Coffee Lounge – looking forward

The Patisserie – looking aft

Photograph © Kosta Specis

The Grand Plaza lounge has a variety of features, such as a cantilevered staircase, fine wall and fountain sculptures. A superb blue circular carpet with its comfortable blue sofas and chairs, this space is obviously enhanced by the spectacle that towers above. The Information Desk is located along the starboard wall.

The Patisserie – looking forward

Photograph © Kosta Specis

The Patisserie runs the length on the portside of the Grand Plaza and is furnished in beige club chairs on a blue carpeted area, whilst the Bar is surrounded by beige, white and brown tiles. The large windows flood the space with light and allow fine views, be it at sea or when in port. In all, this space seemed to be quite separate from the Grand Plaza as it had an individual atmosphere!

The Grand Plaza Lounge looking towards the Patisserie – the Pursers deck is behind me

Purser’s (Information) Desk – Note: During my 106 nights on her in 2009 is finding a competent staff member

There was one, but sadly she left us in San Francisco, and believe me some of the staff are woeful!

Photograph © Kosta Specis

The fountain, sculpture and pond at the foot of the grand staircase

Photograph © Kosta Specis

Grand Plaza Atrium views from Deck 6

Central Staircase down to Deck 5

The shopping arcades “Illuminations” and other Boutiques surround the Atrium on Deck 6

The Regatta Galleria

Looking up from Deck 6 to the Atrium Lounge on Deck 7 and La Scala Pizzeria on Deck 8

One of the many Floral Displays at the Atrium

Photograph © Kosta Specis

Deck 8 is the top level of the Grand Atrium and it is the location of the La Scala Pizzeria

The La Scala Pizzeria occupies the entire top level of the Atrium which is furnished with iron tables and chairs, similar to those seen here. This space has that typical Italian feel, although the baking and serving staff at La Scala is mostly Pilipino.

Note: During our 2009 around the world cruise this was our favourite dinning venue, as the buffet topside was not fir to eat at, due to dirty habits by both staff, but more so the passengers and there was a great deal of associated illness on board! I saw staff dropping ladles on the floor, yet they picked it up and placed it back in on the food. The Horizon court was filthy and not fit to eat at! However La Scala was simply superb and very clean! The food in the dinning room was not great on our voyage as it was repeated over and over again, and the quality was very average, I gave the dinning room food 2.5 starts at the most, whilst La Scala received a full 5 stars!

La Scala Pizzeria

Photograph © Kosta Specis

The La Scala Dining area goes around the entire Atrium

Photograph © Kosta Specis

Looking down from Deck 8

Deck 7 – Promenade Deck

Our tour commences forward and heads Aft

On Deck 7, Promenade Deck you will make many discoveries and there will certainly be a facility to please every need. There is the grand Princess Theatre forward as well as the fine Vista Lounge & Showroom aft on this deck. In addition to a vast variety of Lounges and Bars, there is a spacious Nightclub, a Photoshop, as well as an Internet Café and the very poorly stocked Library! The ship has a magnificent teak walk around Promenade Deck.

The Art Deco style Princess Theatre is located far forward and it seats 550 passengers. The arched stage is 11 meters wide and will host a host of Broadway style shows. The over all colour scheme is a hued red and there are large Art Deco panels on the walls that contain murals which are more visible on the second photograph. Note: During our world cruise the 104 Sydney to Sydney part, for we also sailed back to Brisbane, for another 2 nights, we were presented with only 11 production shows, which is a disgrace, for we sailed almost annually with P&O Cruises UK, such as the Oriana, Aurora and have done so going back to the 60’s, including the SS Oriana and SS Canberra, etc, and they present regular production shows almost every second night. There were many guest artist, some very good, other OK, and some very poor indeed.

Starboard entrance to the Princess Theatre

The Princess Theatre seats 550 persons

Photograph © Kosta Specis

Princess Theatre – looking forward

Princess Theatre walls have fine Art Deco panels

A close up of one of these panels

Photograph © Kosta Specis

A hallway running across the ship just forward of the Wheelhouse Lounge and Bar

The Portside Passage next to the Wheelhouse Lounge

Portside entrance to the Wheelhouse Bar

With the Wheelhouse Bar, Princess Cruises has gone back to its P&O roots as the room features many models of old P&O liners on the starboard side as well as fine paintings. In addition there are many items of memorabilia from various liners. These include a Ships Bell, a Telegraph, a Steering Wheel, brass Lamps and much more. You will discover fine leather sofas and chairs on the port side, whilst on starboard some of the seating is upholstered in fine red brocades as you will see on the photograph below. This room has a band stand and a sizable dance floor as this fine Lounge is also used for dancing. Note: This is the only real dance venue on the ship, however, the band was told to keep the sound down because of the noise that they created in the cabins above and below. This is unbelievable, a dance venue where they had to play at almost a whisper, and yet the passenger was to enjoy them selves? I felt sorry for the bands as they tried but they could not work and their regular songs due to this and thus thanks to Princess’ stupidity, the passengers suffered! Great lounge during the day, but do not try to enjoy yourself; you might upset the cabins on other decks.

The superb Wheelhouse Lounge and Bar

Starboard side of the Wheelhouse Bar

Wheelhouse Bar, looking to port

Thick leather furnishing, fine timbers and a maritime theme is the setting for this superb Lounge

Photograph © Kosta Specis

A view looking from near the Bandstand across the Dance Floor toward the Bar

Photograph © Kosta Specis

A model of P&O’s 1950 built RMS Chusan

Photograph © Kosta Specis

A cosy corner of the Wheelhouse Lounge

Photograph © Kosta Specis

The forward – starboard entrance to the Wheelhouse Bar

Photograph © Kosta Specis

I have briefly walked to the forward set of lifts and this is the stairwell opposite the lifts on Deck 7

Dawn Princess is blessed with a full walk around teak Promenade Deck – Starboard, looking aft

This is the perfect place for a morning read and enjoying the sun and the sea breeze! – Starboard, looking forward

Between the lifts is the entrance to the Atrium Lounge on Deck 7

The Atrium Lounge – Note the band stand and dance floor

Atrium Lounge and bar (starboard)

Atrium Lounge occupies all of the Grand Atrium space on Deck 7. The colour scheme is colourful, yet somewhat muted with its rich timbers, beige carpets and blue seating, with gold metal and glass topped tables. The bar is also framed with gold and dark brown stone and a sculpture at its corner. A modern mural hangs on the forward wall, whilst the Plaza Atrium itself makes up the remainder of the spectacle. The Atrium Lounge is the perfect place for trivia and other games during the day, as well as having that quiet drink and a relaxing time, be it reading a book or just chatting with friends. However, at other times, the Atrium Lounge is used for dancing as it has a band stand and a dance floor. Note: The dance floor here was never used, so it was just for show. Also this room is one of the busiest venues I have ever come across on any ship in history, as it is a thorough way from forward to aft. I called it the Grand Station as there were hundreds of people constantly walking though, thus certainly not the spot for a quiet drink!

A wider view of the Atrium Lounge

The Art Gallery – The staircase on the right leads upstairs to the Grand Casino

Photograph © Kosta Specis

The Grand Casino – Looking across the mini atrium

Photograph © Kosta Specis

Looking down to Magnums Lounge and Bar on the right

Photograph © Kosta Specis

On starboard side of the Art Gallery is the intimate and delightful Magnums Lounge and Cocktail Bar, this leads down a hallway. This is one of the smallest venues on the ship yet it is, like all venues on board tastefully furnished in hues of various shades of blue and beige, with touches of timber, marble and superb art works and table lamps to complement the setting! Note: This is mainly a hallway, and like all venues on the ship it has people passing through it all the time, meaning, try and find one single place on the entire ship, if you are on the world cruise where you can read a book in peace. Frankly there is not one single venue where you can do that, only your cabin, or out on deck, if you can find a solitary place there.

Magnums Lounge and Bar

Magnums – The Bar is to the left

Photograph © Kosta Specis

Magnums Lounge – The Photo Gallery can be seen past the doors

Jammers Nightclub and Disco – amidships, portside

Jammers Night Club is a spacious room and above we see but a corner of it. The colour scheme is based on various shades of greys, but it comes alive when the lights are turned on at night when it becomes a very colourful venue indeed! It starts off as a Night Club and then it turns into the late night Disco for those who like to dance the night away! Note: I have lightened the photo, but it is a very dark room during the day, and it is mostly taken over by the youth and kids.

The most useless Library ever found on a ship! – The book selection is woeful!

Aft entrance to the excellent Internet Café and it is very good!

Photograph © Kosta Specis

Internet Café – is also located portside

The Vista Lounge is the ships second showroom but, mostly for guest artists, not production shows, etc

The Vista Lounge is a tiered room and the venue for a variety of entertainments and shows and cabarets and guest entertainers, such as comedians, vocalists, and magicians. In addition movies are also shown here, as they are in the Princess Theatre. The Vista Lounge is also the perfect place for “Bingo.”

The view towards the main stage

Photograph © Kosta Specis

The terrace a popular spot during the day for reading

Photograph © Kosta Specis

The Vista Lounge is well tiered and all seats turn around and face the stage

The Vista Bar

Deck 12

We tour aft to forward

The Beauty salon is very expensive!

Hairdresser

Reception at the “Lotus Spa” if you can afford it?

“Lotus Spa’ main entrance

The Gym is large and faces out to sea as well as over the stern of the ship – great free sessions available

A grand view is to be had as you are working out!

Highly trained staff is available to work with you and organise a program that will suit your needs

The famous between decks Oasis Spa with its two Hot Tubs

This area is simply called “The Riviera” – It has an upper pool seen in the front, with two Hot Tubs, and there

is a larger pool and one more Hot Tub on the lower lever closer to the Riviera Bar

Another view from starboard

Here we see that each deck has a facility.

1. The Riviera Bar. 2. The Balcony Grill. 3. The Windjammers Bar, on our 106 night cruise it was never open (???)

Forward on Riviera Deck (12) portside, amongst the cabins is a cosy Card Room

This venue has no views as it was installed into a number of removed inside cabins

Deck 14

A jogging track surrounds the deck – A movie screen was added in front of the funnel

During the June 2008 refit one of the new features to be added will be the giant outdoor movie screen

Placed in front of the funnel – Do not expect any “recent release movies” as per brochure,

there were none on our 2009 - 104 night around the world cruise, far too many old movies and constantly repeated

There were no sports events shows as promised either!

Image © Princess Cruises/Carnival Plc Australia

Horizon Court is a 24 hour buffet/food outlet overlooking the ships bow. In the evening from 8.30 to 11 pm

The front part of the Horizon Court is transformed in the popular “Sterling Steakhouse.”

I have already spoken about this venue and I would not be seen dead in it!

Horizon Court has a Bar, Band stand and dance floor

There are buffets on both sides as well as one in the middle, note the superb model of the ship!

This photograph was taken in what should have been the busy time, but it is far too hot and windy – It does look nice!

The shade screens will not protect you from the UV rays as I was told, they did use not the correct UV protection screens

The half day fee does include cool fruit drinks and bar service, but it is too expensive and not worth while

The Bridge

Above and below: Two views of the Bridge

Photograph © Kosta Specis

Deck 6 - Venetian Restaurant

The Venetian Restaurant

Deck 5 - Florentine Restaurant

The Florentine Restaurant is located directly below the Venetian Restaurant

Photograph © Kosta Specis

The Galley

Above and below: Two views of the Galley

Photographs © Kosta Specis

It is time to check out the accommodations!

Photograph © Kosta Specis

Accommodations

The accommodation images were provided by: Carnival PLC/Princess Cruises

WARNING to all non smokers: It needs to be noted that Princess Cruises has one of the worst smoker’s policies afloat, especially if you are a non-smoker. Amazingly for the 21st.century but Princess Cruises allows passengers to smoke in their cabins, which results to the hallways to stink to high heaven! There have been passengers arriving in their cabin, stateroom or suites, and the room absolutely stank of stale tobacco, and in one case a passenger suffered greatly during a month long cruise of severe bouts of asthma, something she had not suffered with for years. Having advised the Information Desk of the problem the cabin steward sprayed the room with air-freshener, and this had to be done again a number of times several days in a row, for the problem simply would not go away. Eventually the room had to be completely washed down, with carpets shampooed as no other accommodation was available on the ship. In addition, each time you walk out of your room the hallway also tends stink badly of stale smoke because your neighbours could well be a smoker. And believe me, I know for I was on the Dawn Princess in 2009 104 night Around the World Cruise (never again!), and on our deck there were a good number of smokers nearby who smoked in their cabins the hallway stank that it even made me sick! We need to understand that these rooms were either an inside or room with a fixed window, thus the smell of smoke simply came out into the hallway for cabin doors are not well sealed, and slowly the odour wafts into the hallway and it becomes a hideous smell.

Please Note: I am not against smokers smoking on board, as I believe that everyone has a right to smoke or not to smoke, but certainly not in their cabins. And not only because of the smell and it annoying others, but more importantly, for reason it being a safety issue, as fire is the ships greatest danger, and how many house fires do we hear about due a smoker having fallen asleep with a cigarette still alight in bed!

The amazing thing is that thankfully P&O Cruises Australia has a “No Smoking policy in all cabins, including out on their balconies” and there is a substantial fine if caught smoking there - good on you P&O! It is about time that Princess, this so-called “premium” cruise line catches up with the times! Personally, I feel that these are nice ships for a short cruise, but the Dawn Princess is the certainly wrong ship for a world cruise, believe me she was not designed for it, and I spent what many called “a horror cruise from hell” on her in 2009, and I am sorry Princess, although I support many of the Carnival products, I will never cruise with Princess Cruises again!

Twin bedded cabin with balcony - Convertible to a Queen sized bed

I believe that these are the best accommodations of the ship, located amidships

And in a way, better value and location that any of the suites

Standard outside cabins with picture windows measure 135-173 square feet. Dawn Princess has a wide selection of staterooms with private balconies, nearly 70 percent of all outside cabins. Balcony cabins measure 178 square feet including the balcony. Space inside these cabins is smaller (151 square feet), and may feel tight, particularly if shared with children. Suites with large private balconies are 374 to 754 square feet and include a sitting room with separate bedroom, a large marble bathroom, whirlpool, and walk-in closet. There are also 372 inside cabins ranging from 135 to 148 square feet. Nineteen ADA (wheelchair accessible) cabins (seven outside, 12 inside) range from 212-305 square feet.

The first three images are of a DD Grade deluxe Ocean View cabin on 9.

Twin bedded, or can be made up with a Queen sized bed – I found the cabin on P&O’s Pacific Dawn 100% better

The huge mirror brightens up the whole room

Mr Specis who occupied this cabin was more than please with the accommodation! The bathroom is tiny!

Other Accommodations

Suites and mini-suites are excellent, well they should be, but you will be located

over the stern where all the ships Vibration and movement is felt, not that great!

Note: The inside twin/three/four bedded cabin are extremely small

and I would not recommend it for more than two people, even then it is cramped!

These rooms have little to no wardrobe space especially for the world cruise, a disaster!

Each cabin deck has a free Laundromat with washer and dryer. Detergent is available in machines but you have to pay for that of course (enough for a single load) and each laundry has an iron and ironing board. However, laundries are war zones, best on port days!

My tour of the ship certainly left me impressed as I had not seen her before and she is a good looking ship indeed, but it needs to be understood that she was designed as a short cruise ship two to three weeks at the most. She is certainly not suitable for an around the world cruise as she does not have the facilities, venues and frankly her cabins are not great compared to other ships, such as P&O UK that offer a sofa in every cabin, tea and coffee making facilities in every cabin! These very basic items are simply not available on the so-called “Premier” Dawn Princess.

Dawn Princess is a ship highly to be recommended for a short cruise, no more.

Certainly her interiors are like a luxury hotel and very nice!

A photo taken from across the Brisbane River – Lifeboat drill was obviously ongoing

In Conclusion

Dawn Princess was built in Italy at a cost of more that A$400 million and operates Premium cruises out of Australia year round. She is 261m long and 32m wide. She has 14 decks and sails at a speed of 21 knots. She accommodates up to 1998 passengers in 999 cabins, including 6 suites, 32 mini-suites, 372 balcony cabins, as well as outside (window) and affordable inside cabins (no window). Dawn Princess has 19 rooms available with wheelchair access, 7 of these are outside and 12 inside. The ship is officially rated as 4 Stars by the Berlitz Cruising Guide. However, under Australian management I believe she has suffered and I would downgrade her to a maximum of 3.5 stars, but the restaurants and horizon court food no more than 2.5 stars.

There is no doubt that she is a beautifully built ship and she and her twin sister the Sun Princess and in 2011 will now provide us with a choice between P&O Cruises Australia, which I still believe provides an excellent and better value for money cruise product, as well as offering a far superior food quality than Princess, however Princess Cruises does offer a free 24 hour room service and several additions free dinning options.

In June 2009 she received a massive refit at the Fornacs Cairncross Dry-Dock Brisbane from 7 to 19 June, which saw the installation of a massive Outdoor Movie Screen located in front of the Funnel. Although, the promotional material will promise you latest release movies, expect old movies, we saw The Marx Brothers “A night at the Opera” so many time we go sick of it on the world cruise and the only latest release movie was Star Trek, but that was shown on the small screen in the Vista Lounge, bow tell me if that makes sense? There were also supposed to be sports events, well we are still waiting! Then there is the new Adults only “Sanctuary topside, far forward on Deck 15, that nobody bothered with, too costly and too hot as the sun screens used are the wrong type used and you will burn under them. We were told that the ship received new carpets, upholstery and few other upgrades throughout the vessel, although on our cruise I did not notice any changes for she looked a little tardy and there were scuff marks and bits broken everywhere considering she had only just had her refit less than a month ago? In addition the ship broke down countless times with thrusters’ problems and other mechanical issues, which meant we lost time in ports of call. Then there were never ending water leaks from ceilings throughout the ship the Atrium lounge on the starboard side was closed for a week with hot air blowers going drying the carpets and the were very loud. At night the piano entertainer became most annoyed for these machines were more than annoying and after three nights he had them switched off during his performance, but he had to fight to get it done! However right at the beginning my personal problems started; Having boarded the ship after long delays at Sydney airport as our luggage had been left in Brisbane by the carrier, I wanted to have a shower, however, 1. The drain was blocked, but even worse still, 2. The cabin was filthy, with smears of whatever all over the walls and the carpets were beyond belief, and thus I called for the head of maintenance and the order came to have the cabin to be totally cleaned, the walls washed and the carpets steam cleaned, etc. The room stank, now this is unbelievable for a so-called 4 star Premium ship and I am an Elite Club member having sailed on countless cruises, including Princess, but we had arrived at the pits!

Thus, having visited the ship in 2008, I was impressed, my friend sailed on her in that year and felt she was a good ship for a short cruise, but then the 106 night world cruise was far from a good experience, as besides the many problems the ship encountered with breakdowns and flooding, as described, we had the cruise director from hell who tended to ruin the cruise for so many of the passengers on board. In fact upon arrival in Australia she was banned from serving with Australian passengers ever again by the CEO of Carnival Australia, but sadly we had to suffer her for the duration of the cruise and it made it a terrible experience! But thankfully this has now been rectified through my efforts! Thank you Ann Sherry! However, we did have a wonderful vacation, for to be honest, “A cruise is what you make of it” and we made some fine friends, and the service in general was superb. I have a review online regarding the world cruise that spells out the details the good, and yes there are good points, and the hideously bad points, but there are some wonderful people on the ship, stewards, the assistant cruise director, one of the finest Passenger Services Director (Hotel Manager), etc, but, the font desk, do not expect to find too many there with a brain to be of any real help, for as I stated to the Passenger Services Director; “I am sure their only qualification for the job was to prove their incompetency.”

Am I impressed with the Dawn Princess? As I said she is a good looking ship and good for short week long or a 10 day cruise, but I would never recommend her for the world cruise, rather spend your hard earned money wisely and go on Cunard, or better still with P&O UK, for you will be ensured to have a wonderful and a genuine world cruise experience with superb accommodations and facilities with entertainment to match! And let’s face it, they have been operating around the world cruises for a very long time, thus they are the experts and have ships that were especially designed for this kind of voyage!

Dawn Princess seen on Monday 15 June revealing her new 8-metre wide (useless) “MUTS” movie screen

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