Excellent Canaries Cruise

Independence of the Seas Cruise Review to Europe - Western Europe

Cruises: 2-3 cruises
Review: 1
Helpful Votes: 6

Overall rating:

4.8 out of 5
Independence of the Seas

14 Night Canaries Adventure (Southampton Roundtrip)

Sail date: June 29, 2019

Ship: Independence of the Seas

Cabin type: Balcony

Cabin number: 6528

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 5 years ago

Review summary

A lively, well planned cruise with lots of activities for all ages, good ports and great fun onboard

Embarkation

5 out of 5
easy

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

5 out of 5
superb food in the main restaurants, buffet was always busy but varied, other food was good quality

Onboard Activities

5 out of 5
Pools busy, loads of other thing to do, rock wall, flowrider etc

Entertainment

5 out of 5
All the shows we saw were first class, we had 2 different ice show, many different theatre performances, Grease, Once upon a time, comedy acts and many others.

Children's Programs

no kids?

Service and Staff

5 out of 5
Excellent service in the main restaurant, Selbourne and Kiki were great fun, room steward was very attentive, bar staff remembered drinks by the 6th day!!, especially Sharon in the theatre

Ship Quality

5 out of 5
The bar areas were always busy and could have been larger, there were not enough toilets in the theatre areas. The complete ship was being cleaning continuously the whole time we were there

Cabin / Stateroom

5 out of 5
large, very clean, great big bed !!. Very nice cabin

Ship tip

Take a magnetic clip for your daily notes and a manual clock/watch

Ports of call

Southampton (London), England

5 out of 5
easy on easy off

Vigo, Spain

4 out of 5
Ok not the best port but not too bad

Lisbon, Portugal

5 out of 5
Loved Lisbon, great cultural city

Cadiz (Seville), Spain

5 out of 5
Beautiful city, loads to do

Lanzarote, Canary Islands

1 out of 5
grotty unclean city

Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, Canary Islands

5 out of 5
Very nice , clean, large city with loads to see

Tenerife, Canary Islands

4 out of 5
Ok but a bit overdeveloped

Santa Cruz De La Palma, Canary Islands

5 out of 5
My favourite of the Canaries, lovely quaint place

Funchal, Madeira

5 out of 5
Superb, the best stop, and unfortunately the shortest, a fascinating gorgeous place

La Coruna, Spain

5 out of 5
Very clean upmarket Spanish city, well worth a visit

Disembarkation

5 out of 5
we left the ship at 8.15 and was home(isle of Wight ) by 9.45 !! So so easy
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