The Crew, Staff and Entertainers worked so hard to keep us healthy and safe

Grandeur of the Seas Cruise Review to Caribbean - Western

Cruises: 7+ cruises
Review: 1
Helpful Votes: 46

Overall rating:

5 out of 5
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Grandeur of the Seas

10 Night Western Caribbean (Baltimore Roundtrip)

Sail date: January 24, 2015

Ship: Grandeur of the Seas

Cabin type: Inside

Cabin number: 3609

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 9 years ago

Review summary

We've done a lot of cruising and we completely enjoy being on the sea.  This was the first time I've been sick and also my husband also got Montezuma's revenge about 5 days later, both happened to be sea days.   When we returned we heard that about 10% of the passengers got a noravirus, or something, not desirable.

Obviously someone or several people got on sick and I'm sure that the ship had no way of knowing who or what they were carrying with them.  When you have that many people, illness can travel quickly.  In spite of that I can say that all the staff worked their hardest to keep us healthy and safe.  They worked endless hours trying to keep the illness to a minimum and I know that was not easy.

This was not how we intended to vacation, but it happens.

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

5 out of 5
The food was very good.

Onboard Activities

NA

Entertainment

5 out of 5
Nice variety of many different entertainers.

Children's Programs

NA

Service and Staff

5 out of 5
Gloria, our stateroom attendant and also our server Raymond and his assistant were great

Ship Quality

5 out of 5
SHip has been updated and looks great.

Cabin / Stateroom

3 out of 5
Who ever selected the high sink and the low faucet made a mistake. I never felt I could wash my hands in my room as well as I could in the woman's bathrooms.

Ship tip

I did not realize that the pastries with Starbucks were complimentary if you asked, even without coffee

Ports of call

Baltimore, Maryland

5 out of 5
Great Port, lots to do and see there

Cozumel, Mexico

5 out of 5
Shopping and the long beachfront

George Town, Grand Cayman

5 out of 5
Visit the shops, we had been to the Turtle Farm and Hell and Back before.

Falmouth, Jamaica

3 out of 5
Shopping seemed limited.

Labadee (Cruise Line Private Island) Did not visit port

Cruise by passed Labadee due to illness.
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glomarrone    9 years ago

Oh my, getting sick on a ship is not fun!  I am lucky that so far it has not happened to me but I almost hate to say this since it may jinx me on my next cruise.

On one of my last two HAL ships, the norovirus was a big problem.  Lots of passengers got sick and it went on for days.  I didn't catch anything.  The ship did everything that it could to contain it and eventually their efforts paid off. 

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