Fun and interesting and different cruise

Item: Grandeur of the Seas
Rating: 3
Author: JayC1

Grandeur of the Seas Cruise Review to Canada, New England, New York

JayC1

Contributor Level: Deck Hand

Cruises: 4-6 cruises

Review: 1

Helpful Votes: 13

Overall rating:

3 out of 5

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9 Night Canada/New England (Baltimore Roundtrip)

Sail date: June 29, 2007

Ship: Grandeur of the Seas

Cabin type: Inside

Traveled as: Family (young children)

Reviewed: 14 years ago

Review summary

Nice clean ship. Food was good and service was very good. Workout room was small but well equipped. Climbing wall was cool. A nice variety of good entertainment, including comics, vocalists, dancers, musicians, and even a gymnast. Drinks were a little pricey. I wish the jogging track wasn't on the top deck, but on a lower deck, as it was too windy for good running or walking most days. I was surprised that some of the exercise classes were an extra fee. That wasn't the case on NCL.

Ports of call

Halifax, Nova Scotia

3 out of 5

Bigger city with plenty of sites and lots of shopping. The shore excursions seemed much more interesting here. I'd rather sacrifice the day in Portland or St. John for an extra day in Halifax. We didn't have enough time to see everything we wanted to see.

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Don't Miss: Glass blowing at the crystal glass shop along the harborwalk.

Halifax, Nova Scotia

3 out of 5

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Don't Miss: Glass blowing at the crystal glass shop along the harborwalk.

Bar Harbor, Maine

3 out of 5

Acadia was beautiful and Bar Harbor was a small, but cute and ecletic town with lots of neat shopping and eating.

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Don't Miss: Bicycling through Acadia was exceptional, but it can be physically challenging.

Boston, Massachusetts

5 out of 5

Boston is one of our favorite cities. We've been there 3-4 times and still haven't seen everything. Many "don't miss" sites here including the Freedom Trail, USS Constitution, Quincy Market, Fenway, and others.

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Don't Miss: The Museum of Science. It's a full day in itself, particularly for kids of any age.

Saint John, New Brunswick

3 out of 5

Again, a small and not-so-interesting town. Sites are few and small. Shopping is minimal. The shore excursions seemed uninteresting.

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Don't Miss: None.

Portland, Maine

1 out of 5

Small city and very little to do. Very little shopping. Decent eateries, though. We didn't do a shore excursion here, because the excursions didn't seem all that interesting, but they were probably more interesting than the town.

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Don't Miss: We took the island ferry as an ad hoc site seeing tour, and it was fun and interesting - and right next door to the cruise ship dock.

Saint John, New Brunswick

3 out of 5

Again, a small and not-so-interesting town. Sites are few and small. Shopping is minimal. The shore excursions seemed uninteresting.

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Don't Miss: None.

Bar Harbor, Maine

3 out of 5

Acadia was beautiful and Bar Harbor was a small, but cute and ecletic town with lots of neat shopping and eating.

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Don't Miss: Bicycling through Acadia was exceptional, but it can be physically challenging.

Portland, Maine

1 out of 5

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Don't Miss: We took the island ferry as an ad hoc site seeing tour, and it was fun and interesting - and right next door to the cruise ship dock.

Boston, Massachusetts

5 out of 5

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Don't Miss: The Museum of Science. It's a full day in itself, particularly for kids of any age.

Pros: Food and entertainment

Cons: Disorganized teen activities. Some ports were great, others not so great.

Fun and interesting and different cruise

Overall rating:

Review summary

Ports of call

Recommends Grandeur of the Seas? Yes!

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