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Explorer of the Seas Cruise Review to Europe - Western Europe

traceyfowler

Contributor Level: Second Mate

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Cruises: 7+ cruises

Reviews: 2

Helpful Votes: 56

Overall rating:

4.6 out of 5

10 Night Canary Islands (Southampton Roundtrip)

Sail date: May 14, 2019

Ship: Explorer of the Seas

Cabin number: 1818

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 5 years ago

Review summary

After cruising on Royal Carribean I think I’m done for the time being . They need to update their entertainment program . There are only so many times that you can watch the Rock Britannia / Take That /Quest/70’s night ./Strings Ice show. Come in Royal Caribbean change up the entertainment.

Embarkation

5 out of 5

Very quick and easy . No issues

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

4 out of 5

Main dining room was good . The Windjammer was disappointing on an evening with cold food.

Onboard Activities

3 out of 5

Entertainment

3 out of 5

Very poor. No real production show . Comedian not funny. Juggler terrible . Why do RC think we want to watch that . The bad Top Notch we’re breaking the trades description act. There must be do much choice of bands that want to be resident on the Ship why chose one with pitch problems that has to read the lyrics from an IPad. Not enough places to sit on an evening.

Children's Programs

Did not travel with Children

Service and Staff

5 out of 5

Ship Quality

5 out of 5

Very clean but is ready for a refurb .

Cabin / Stateroom

5 out of 5

The cabin was lovely but the flooring gave way and caused me to fall . Hurting my back and shoulder . It took 2 visits to guests services to get it fixed . They offer me 15% of future cruise credit but am still waiting for it to materialise.

Ship tip

Once you found a seat stay in it .

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Ports of call

Southampton (London), England

5 out of 5

Funchal, Madeira

5 out of 5

Vigo, Spain

5 out of 5

Lovely port . No need for a shuttle bus .

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Disembarkation

5 out of 5

Very easy

7 Comments

Cruisers4Lyfe 3 months ago

Thanks for sharing

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Sarahs58 5 years ago

We are doing the Baltic on the Explorer next month but then, although we are diamond level, I think we might be done with RC, at least for w while. The shows and entertainment does seriously need to be changed. Hope that Once Upon a Time show isn't on this ship. With only Anthem to opt for next year, which had quite a rew drawbacks for us last time, think we will be looking elsewhere.

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adrianwest 5 years ago

I'm in complete agreement, we are already looking at other cruise providers

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Tammytyler 5 years ago

Also sorry to hear you got injured. We love explorer and Australia!! We have been on more cruises than listed and find entertainment varies on area cruising. Games and trivia always the same and dances (thriller ect). We’ve enjoyed violinist, police bag pipers, Mama Mia, and many other top shows. Hope this helps others reading reviews.

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keith1967 5 years ago

Yep . And being Australian we hate the USD. Add around 30 odd percent for every purchase. That isn’t great. Love the ship been on her twice.

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msp73 5 years ago

Totally agree.. same on all ships. I've seen the same shows since 2008!

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christine1234 5 years ago

Hope you are doing ok. Sorry that you fell due to bad flooring. Hope you get some kind of future travel compensation and they fixed the problem.

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Other reviews of this sailing

Lovely but not as good as previous RCL cruises.

Excellent time had by all