Explorer of the Seas Cruise Reviews - Reviews

Overall very good, everything you would expect from a cruise. New Year’s Eve was great. Negatives were, Tad rocky on the sea day from Miami day 2, and getting off was a bit of a nightmare as the bags were on the wrong conveyer belt. The kids didn’t like the club on this ship they are 9 and 10 but loved it last cruise.

We did allot of lounging on this cruise. So as long as we had a chair and a view we were happy.

Christmas cruise was very relaxing the weather was not good

This was our first time on the Explorer of the Seas She was great !

Good cruise. I would like to try a seven night next time

Excellent cruise except for weather wish it wasn’t raining the whole time

Unfortunately, it was rainy 4 out of 5 days. Would have been more fun if it had been sunny but RC cannot be blamed for the weather.

Not sure we would book a cruise with Royal Caribbean... compare to a previous cruise with Carnival... we enjoyed that cruise line better.

This review is for a privately chartered cruise on Explorer of the Seas that left on 12/08/2019. Though we only paid for the upgraded room and taxes, I wouldn't have minded paying full price for this experience. The ship itself, service on board, and a variety of entertainment and activities were all excellent. I am a big fan of this class of ship since the layout allows everyone to do their own thing without having 'too much' to get in with just a couple of sea days.

I had a great time, I just ate too much drank too much and stayed up too late. I need a vacation after my vacation.

Very busy ship with large numbers of children due to “kid go free”. Surprised by this since it was school term time

Overall it was an enjoyable cruise although not up to the standards of my many past RC cruises. This was my second cruise on the Explorer and I will not be repeating again as I do not like the balcony design. I am going to stick with the Indy/Freedom classs as they seem to have the advantages of the larger ships (better entertainment, more activities) without the huge number of people. And as a final thought, parents: PLEASE watch your children, interact with them or put them into the children's program. There were many children on this cruise and most were behaving appropriately (for their ages) and parents were engaged BUT we also saw many that were acting out and being ignored by their parents. The child at the MDR table next to us was off his chair, pulling on things, knocking things down and even running in circles around the table with a fork in his hand - all being ignored by his family despite our comments - until the MDR manager FINALLY said something about the running with the fork as he almost knocked over a waiter. They weren't seen again in the MDR. It wasn't the kid's fault!!!

The cruise compass on board ship was broken into sections. To find an activity or event you had to look at the whole page. Whereas before it was sorted by times so finding an event was quick. As a result we missed some events we would have attended.

The ports were great this was our second cruise to abc islands the ship need to go to dry dock looks rough But as always RCCL is great!!!

The ship need a lot of improvements. The internet was not good on Mac. It only works with mobil devices and PC. They told me that they are not prepared for Apple computers yet. I had to go the RC Online every time I needed to work on my computer. The food is ok but not espectacular as described. The MDR service is great. Bar service is bad and the drinks are not well prepared. We had a good time, we'll wait after the dry dock to cruise the Explorer again.

The cruise was great We will definitely cruise with Royal Caribbean in the future.

A cruise is like another world...a great vacation! I noticed many people were not first timers. Cruising is addicting

I’ll never do another charter cruise. Never Miami

Dining Room staff was great. Ivan and Jose were the best.

Great cruise overall! Explorer needs a face lift so perfect timing.