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Jewel of the Seas Cruise Review to Caribbean - Southern

Cruises: 4-6 cruises
Review: 1
Helpful Votes: 63

Overall rating:

1 out of 5
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Jewel of the Seas

7 Night Southern Caribbean (San Juan Roundtrip)

Sail date: February 26, 2017

Ship: Jewel of the Seas

Cabin type: Balcony

Cabin number: 9608

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 7 years ago

Review summary

We had a good cruise been on this ship before. Loved the islands. Problem #1 the first night my luggage was confiscated . Nobody informed me about this till after 630 pm. So we missed our dinner. Wasn't really happy about this situation once i went down to retrieve my luggage , went through the scanner opened it up no problem. Just caused a lot of stress that wasn't needed. Not a great way to start the vacation off with. #2 My wife had a procedure done in the spa  Very expensive. Talked with the Doc she quoted a price gave us a discount. Told me a price but of course the 18% gratuity wasn't mentioned and yes I overlooked it in the paper work. Cost me an additional $300 not really happy about it. Talk about misleading people.  After i explained to the doc i really couldn't afford the initial price. Went to services to explained the misleading and the results were well your wife signed for it. #3 the excursion we went on that we booked through the cruise. Well they didn't inform us that we would be going out of a our way to pick up members from another cruise ship to fill out the boat for the excursion. Wow talk about waiting 1 hour of time to go to pick up other people.Well misleading again. #4 Food was terrible worst food i ever ate on a cruise ship . Talk about ruining a vacation after they boast about how they are the best of cruise ships last year give me a break. Well at the end of the day we will never book a trip on this cruise line again and will start looking toward another company which will provide a better service for the amount of $ we paid they simply lost our business and we will tell everyone we know how bad this deceiving cruise line is and beware of them

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

1 out of 5
terrible

Onboard Activities

1 out of 5

Entertainment

3 out of 5

Children's Programs

1 out of 5

Service and Staff

3 out of 5

Cabin / Stateroom

5 out of 5
house keeping did a great job

Ship tip

your policy about putting 18% on every service is terrible. lousy service shouldn't be rewarded automatically

Ports of call

San Juan, Puerto Rico

5 out of 5

Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas Did not visit port

misleading excursion to wasted 2 hrs of what i paid for picking up people and dropping them off from another cruise ship they should have told us about it i would have never went on this excursion if i know this fact

Basseterre, St. Kitts

5 out of 5

St. John's, Antigua

5 out of 5

Bridgetown, Barbados

5 out of 5

Castries, St. Lucia

5 out of 5
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6 Comments

Tbirds    7 years ago

Seems like this is a fake account. Obviously someone who just likes to complain!

Tbirds    7 years ago

Why was your luggage confiscated?

picalo    7 years ago

that's a sad experience. I hope you had some good memories as they'll last long after you recoup the spa loss. but I'm sorry things went that way

canalview    7 years ago

You're profile does not indicate any cruises sorry to hear about your experiences on a non existent ship xxx

cbelc2    7 years ago

It sounds like you had it rough from the onset. No cruiseline is perfect, though. I've been on on 5 different lines. Try a different one, but go with a spirit of adventure, and lessons learned!

rogerellenborland    7 years ago

Next time go carnival, we have been on 21 with them and never experienced any thing like you are talking about. Yes they charge tips but you know about it up front and you can decide if you want to do it or not.

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