Great trip but the ship is less than what we expected

Item: Empress of the Seas
Rating: 4.4
Author: scouter65

Empress of the Seas Cruise Review to Cuba

scouter65

Contributor Level: Purser

Cruises: 4-6 cruises

Reviews: 2

Helpful Votes: 102

Overall rating:

4.4 out of 5

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7 Night Key West Mexico & Havana Overnight (Miami Roundtrip)

Sail date: October 18, 2018

Ship: Empress of the Seas

Cabin number: 4237

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 6 years ago

Review summary

Great trip with the highlight being Cuba. We will be watching to see if RC has new port of calls around Cuba and new places besides Mexico.

Embarkation

3 out of 5

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

5 out of 5

Onboard Activities

4 out of 5

Entertainment

3 out of 5

Service and Staff

5 out of 5

The staff was great as always on RC cruises.

Ship Quality

3 out of 5

This is a small ship with only 1600 guest rooms and very few balcony rooms unlike that larger more modern ships. It's also old and shows its age with how things are arranged on the ship and also with the amount of rust you see on the ship.

Cabin / Stateroom

4 out of 5

We had an interior cabin but all the cabins are small, very small.

Ports of call

Miami, Florida

5 out of 5

Thumbs Up 0

Key West, Florida

5 out of 5

Thumbs Up 0

Costa Maya (Mahahual), Mexico

4 out of 5

Nice port of call but we've been there so many times we would have liked to see something else.

Thumbs Up 1

Cozumel, Mexico

4 out of 5

This is a tourist port and we'd already seen everything so we just hung on till we got to Havana

Thumbs Up 2

HAVANA, CUBA

5 out of 5

Very cool to see the city so soon after they started having cruise ships. The city is old and the people are friendly. We spent one night in the port and wish we could have spent the entire week. Lots of see and do in Hanava. If you are go on an excursion tuck some toilet paper in your bag for the day. We found out that toilet paper wasn't as common as we would expect coming fromthe US

Thumbs Up 8

Disembarkation

5 out of 5

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