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Anthem of the Seas Cruise Review to Caribbean - Bahamas

Cruises: 4-6 cruises
Review: 1
Helpful Votes: 34

Overall rating:

4.1 out of 5
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Anthem of the Seas

7 Night Bahamas (Cape Liberty Roundtrip)

Sail date: March 30, 2019

Ship: Anthem of the Seas

Cabin number: 7670

Traveled as: Family (older children)

Reviewed: 5 years ago

Review summary

This was an easy relaxing itenerarty and we loved it. The ship is nothing short of amazing and the food, shows, etc the best we’ve experienced. Biggest issue was not being able to participate in many big ticket activities due to not knowing about having to register the first day. Never did get to do Northstar, ifly or escape room and those items were on our list for picking this ship.

Embarkation

4 out of 5
It was smooth and quick, but a long way and like a maze once checked in.

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

5 out of 5
Everything was AMAZING! Ate main dining every night and didn’t feel the need to use the speciality restaurants. Staff was the best we’ve ever had and we didn’t wait for anything. We ate at Chops for the lunch on last day and you could cut filet with a fork!

Onboard Activities

3 out of 5
There was a lot to do, but it was difficult to utilize the big ticket features. Went to sign up for ifly, Northstar and escape room the first sea day and was told at all places that they were booked for the whole cruise before we even left port!

Entertainment

4 out of 5
Shows were great, especially headliners and big productions.

Service and Staff

4 out of 5
Kindest and most efficient staff we’ve ever experienced cruising when it comes to dining and stateroom. The guest services staff was less helpful. We had some issues with our drink package and we got passed around to 6 staff and management people over the course of embarking day and they didn’t know the answer and blew us off telling us to come back later. We finally got it resolved by 11pm the first day and it was a simple fix. We wanted to upgrade our package and were told they had to refund and repurchase. We didn’t want to do that. The last guy wasn’t even a manager and he goes “yeah that’s easy, here’s the upgrade button!” And it was done.

Ship Quality

5 out of 5
VERY clean!

Cabin / Stateroom

4 out of 5
Excellent cabin with great view. Kids slept on pullout couch and it was really hard and not a mattress, but other than that, no complaints. Most storage of any room we’ve had on a ship!

Ship tip

Book your activities as soon as you embark!

Ports of call

Port Canaveral, Florida

3 out of 5
Not there long enough to enjoy. Only there 5 hours so we didn’t feel it worth the money to do shore excursion. Took shuttle to Ron Jons.

Perfect Day At Coco Cay, Bahamas

5 out of 5
LOVE! Will be even better when expansion opens!

Nassau, Bahamas

4 out of 5
Dirty city, but we loved the snorkeling.

Disembarkation

5 out of 5
Easy!
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5 Comments

wgammon1    4 years ago

Glad you had a good cruise. Thanks for the great review.

Sarahs58    5 years ago

Next time try going on the North Star on a port day when most people are off the ship, standby line can be quite short

Melcruises    5 years ago

Sorry, I meant to type line.

Melcruises    5 years ago

They do a standby lune for Northstar and idly. We did the Northstar. Only had to wait about 15-20 minutes.

Mike787    5 years ago

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