Sarahs58 Cruise Review on Explorer of the Seas on Jun 23, 2019

Explorer of the Seas Cruise Review

Reviews: 3
Helpful Votes: 27

Overall rating:

3 out of 5
Explorer of the Seas

14 Night Scandinavia & Russia (Southampton Roundtrip)

Sail date: June 23, 2019

Ship: Explorer of the Seas

Reviewed: 5 years ago

Review summary

Had a disappointing cruise as far as the ship goes. Did Baltic itinerary so the ports did make up for a lot of the ship shortcomings. The ship is due for a refit and desperately needs it. Staff are wonderful as always. Food in the MDR gets very repetitive and lacks flavour, not sure how they manage to make curry without using any spice. Entertainment was poor. With the exception of Frankie and the Dreamers and several comedians which we have seen before the theatre acts were not good, have never walked out of so many shows on a cruise. Ice show was great but only got one and no choice of which show to see, you get a time allocated according to your muster station. The sunbeds need to be put in a skip, some of them were disgusting. Saving grace on this ship for us was the diamond lounge and Dizzys. Would love to do another Baltic cruise, but in common with so many people we talked to will not be returning to this ship.
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4 Comments

1virginia    5 years ago

I been on her twice and thoroughly enjoyed it the shows were amazing on both cruises and you don't get a choice of times for ice skating show because of how popular they are... All the staff amazing and I never had issues with flavour on the food it was always seasoned well even though its an older ship its still in good condition I think it's going for a referb soon... Sorry to hear you didn't enjoy your cruise

Thomas4    5 years ago

On our sailing earlier this year we were not assigned to a certain time for the ice skating Show. We could Go to whenever we wanted on a first come First serve basis. I cannot say anything bad about the loungers. Some were damaged but there were plenty others to choose. The food was very good on our journey. Everyone in our party of 8 agreed to that.

Sugar68    5 years ago

I'm sad to see this. My very first cruise was on this ship. Of course that was many years ago now. Then the ship was brand new, my cruise was its maiden voyage. Then she was ahead of her time. Now she is dwarfed by so many newer and more modern vessels. Still, it's disappointing to hear you didn't like her. To me I have many fond memories of this ship.

msp73    5 years ago

Sun loungers all changed the day you got off.

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