Cuba

Item: Empress of the Seas
Rating: 4.6
Author: hunot

Empress of the Seas Cruise Review to Cuba

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Reviews: 16

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Overall rating:

4.6 out of 5

5 Night Key West & Havana Overnight (Tampa Roundtrip)

Sail date: October 30, 2017

Ship: Empress of the Seas

Cabin type: Oceanview

Cabin number: 8504

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 7 years ago

Review summary

Would highly recommend this cruise to visit Cuba. We had presentations about arrival into Cuba and immigration. Everything went very smoothly. We we able to come and go from ship into Havana at our leisure.

Embarkation

5 out of 5

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

5 out of 5

Onboard Activities

4 out of 5

Enjoyed the walking track daily. Didn’t participate in other onboard activities.

Entertainment

3 out of 5

Service and Staff

5 out of 5

Ship Quality

4 out of 5

Empress of the Seas is the smallest ship of Royal Caribbean. Still very nice. More casual and friendly. Easy to get around.

Cabin / Stateroom

4 out of 5

This is a forward facing room, which we did like the view. But...there is a deck right outside all the forward facing cabins. When we booked, I asked if anyone has access to this deck, because I didn’t want people being able to look into our room. I was told no one can get to this deck, doors are locked. This was not the case, anyone can go out on this deck. In hindsight, it wasn’t too bad. We enjoyed being able to go out on this deck ourselves, and most of the people on the deck were from our area anyway. All a very friendly group.

Ports of call

Tampa, Florida

5 out of 5

Key West, Florida

5 out of 5

Had enjoyable day walking on Duval street. No excursion taken.

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HAVANA, CUBA

5 out of 5

We did the Panoramic Bus tour and the Old Havana walking tour. Enjoyed both very much. Guides spoke very good English and they were very knowledgeable.

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Disembarkation

5 out of 5

Did the self walk off with our luggage. Smoothest disembarkation ever.

2 Comments

munecamala 7 years ago

Want to do this cruise but dont want to do it thru is ship empress to me was too small when i sailed in it ive been on mostly big ships .. so im very hesitant

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timmel 7 years ago

How long did it take to get off the ship when you first docked in Cuba? I’m worried about having enough time to get to our first excursion.

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