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Item: Explorer of the Seas
Rating: 4
Author: PhyllisM1

Explorer of the Seas Cruise Review to Caribbean - Southern

PhyllisM1

Contributor Level: Deck Hand

Cruises: 2-3 cruises

Reviews: 0

Helpful Votes: 5

Overall rating:

4 out of 5

Verified Review

12 Night Southern Caribbean (Cape Liberty Roundtrip)

Sail date: February 03, 2008

Ship: Explorer of the Seas

Cabin type: Inside

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 16 years ago

Review summary

The ship was beautiful and our state room not large but had everything you needed for an enjoyable cruise.

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

3 out of 5

Entertainment

5 out of 5

Every show on the ship was top notch. The ice skating shows were wonderful. Every entertainer worked hard to put on a terrifc show and they succeeded.

Service and Staff

5 out of 5

The staff was top notch always friendly and smiling. Never a grumpy face or word.

Ship Quality

5 out of 5

Cabin / Stateroom

3 out of 5

Ports of call

St. John's, Antigua

1 out of 5

We took the Taste of Local Antiqua and it was a big rip off. $59 per person (description if tour booklet and on line sounded wonderful) what we saw was terrible. Cotton shop was a piece of ply wood on top of two wooded horses on the beach. The pottery shop with crafts making handed down from generation to generation was one man's garage. Not generations of pottery making. He had very little to sell and what he had no one would purchase, the Herb Garden was a lady's backyard and the talk on herbs and their uses was her trying to sell her products. Do not take this tour.

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Roseau, Dominica

1 out of 5

The tour we choice was to meet on the pier at 11:45 and leave at 12 noon. We were on the pier and the tour left without us. The tour director said they told her everyone was there. The tour left 10 minutes early. They sent a taxi to take us to meet up with the tour at the botanical gardens but the buses were not where they told the taxi they would be so we waited 20 minutes and finally the taxi driver got a call saying they were on the other side of the gardens we missed that tour. They did not have enough regular seats on the 2 buses so we had to sit on the pull out seats in the aisles which when you are driving on mountainous roads is very uncomfortable. Again Royal Caribbean and the tours should have known how many people they sold tickets to and the tour should not have left early. The guide on the bus I must say was very knowledgable about the part of the tour we got to take and very apologetic about our situation. Nobody wanted to take the blame for leaving without us.

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Basseterre, St. Kitts

3 out of 5

San Juan, Puerto Rico

3 out of 5

Philipsburg, St. Maarten

1 out of 5

Arrived in this port at 3:30 not enough daylight time to really tour the island

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Bridgetown, Barbados

3 out of 5

Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas