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Item: Adventure of the Seas
Rating: 4
Author: EveF

Adventure of the Seas Cruise Review to Caribbean - Southern

EveF

Contributor Level: Deck Hand

Cruises: 4-6 cruises

Reviews: 2

Helpful Votes: 12

Overall rating:

4 out of 5

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7 Night Deep Southern Caribbean (San Juan Roundtrip)

Sail date: October 29, 2006

Ship: Adventure of the Seas

Cabin type: Balcony

Traveled as: Family (older children)

Reviewed: 18 years ago

Review summary

The ship main street was beautiful. The hallways for the cabins carpet should have been cleaned. I stayed on Deck 7 but saw the same on Decks 8 & 9. Overall, the ship had something for everybody. For the first time, I did not live inside of my cabin on the balcony.

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

3 out of 5

Overall the food was good and there was something for everyone. Would have loved to have had a full chinese meal though with all applicable sauces.

Entertainment

3 out of 5

Service and Staff

3 out of 5

Ship crew was nice; although, a few of the casual dining staff appeared that they were tired and ready for a vacation...often not being very helpful.

Ship Quality

3 out of 5

Carpet in the hallways of the cabins needed to be cleaned. Also, the stateroom crew needs to change bedspread upon the start of each cruise. One of the bedspreads in my cabin appeared to have been used for a last minute "quickie".

Cabin / Stateroom

3 out of 5

Stateroom is typical of most cruise lines.

Ports of call

Willemstad, Curacao

3 out of 5

Don't take independent tours. A waste of time.

Thumbs Up 0

Don't Miss: African Museum

Philipsburg, St. Maarten

3 out of 5

Shopping in St. Maarten on Dutch side was better than expected. Last December we visited the French side and found the outside merchants okay but not great. However, all of the merchants, especially those not endorsed by the ship, were very helpful and actually had better quality merchandise than the the ship sponsored shops.

Thumbs Up 1

Oranjestad, Aruba

3 out of 5

I had been to Aruba before and found that docking downtown was wonderful for shopping. The only problem was the number of solictors before you could get to the mall area.

Thumbs Up 0

Don't Miss: Aloe Factory

Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas

1 out of 5

This port has really changed. You could not walk down the street without almost being pulled into each shop. The workers came out of their shops to pull you in. Also, almost every shop is owned by someone from mainland USA.

Thumbs Up 0

Pros: Unofficial freestyling dining. It was great that the Island Grill did not close during the main dining seatings giving the traveler who wanted to be casual the entire trip an opportunity to eat outside of room service. Also, the music and shows. The crew were GREAT!

Cons: Photography could have been better. I took a picture where my head was almost cut off. Worst part..this picture was displayed for a cost of $19.99.

Recommends Adventure of the Seas? Yes!

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