Great northern itinerary

Anthem of the Seas Cruise Review to Canada, New England, New York

annoyedbynaming

Contributor Level: Second Mate

Cruises: 7+ cruises

Reviews: 3

Helpful Votes: 111

Overall rating:

4.2 out of 5

9 Night Canada & New England (Cape Liberty Roundtrip)

Sail date: September 28, 2017

Ship: Anthem of the Seas

Cabin type: Suite

Cabin number: 10632

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 7 years ago

Review summary

New England and Canada itinerary has too many and similar ports in my opinion. Anthem is a nice ship but without dynamic dining really lacks anything to make it special.

Embarkation

5 out of 5

We were met by an agent and our boarding passes were scanned. We were then escorted to the security for suites, etc. It took less than 10 min. to get on board

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

4 out of 5

We were very disappointed that the Anthem no longer has dynamic dining. Instead the four restaurants now have the same menu and assigned seating. Every few nights the service was interrupted while they played loud Caribbean music (this was a New England and Canada cruise!) and the wait staff paraded around the room.

Onboard Activities

4 out of 5

Entertainment

5 out of 5

We Will Rock You and Spectra Cabaret in 270 were excellent. The third show was unintelligible because of the loud blaring speakers.

Service and Staff

5 out of 5

Ship Quality

4 out of 5

Without dynamic dinning this is just another large RCCL ship.

Cabin / Stateroom

4 out of 5

The layout was unlike any Jr Suite we have ever had. It was square which put the bathroom door next to the bed and the closet next to the make-up table. You could not get into the closet without bothering the person setting at the table.

Ports of call

Cape Liberty (Bayonne), New Jersey

3 out of 5

Boston, Massachusetts

4 out of 5

Portland, Maine

4 out of 5

Bar Harbor, Maine

3 out of 5

Halifax, Nova Scotia

5 out of 5

Always fun. Great shopping on the pier and the boardwalk into the city is great.

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Saint John, New Brunswick

5 out of 5

Disembarkation

4 out of 5

They now make consecutive cruisers exit the ship (CBP rules I'm sure). They make it easier by having a lounge to sit in until it was our time to exit and guided us off as a group. We still had to walk the length of the terminal to had in our forms and walk back. New Seapasses were distributed in the terminal and we were allowed to go back to our cabins when we re-boarded. They did an excellent luncheon for all of us.

4 Comments

reguenther863 7 years ago

I agree roxybelle.....smh

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roxybelle 7 years ago

Wow alot about the dining I am so glad that other things matter to me and I make a fun time on all my cruises!

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Love2cruise2002 7 years ago

Which JS did you have? The spa JS, regular JS, or family JS?

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Windjam064 7 years ago

I have been on Anthem twice and I thought that two of the restaurants had fixed time dining and two had My Time dining. I have never had Dynamic dining but I thought My Time is the same except with a static menu?

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