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Jewel of the Seas Cruise Review to Europe - Mediterranean

Cruises: 7+ cruises
Review: 1
Helpful Votes: 36

Overall rating:

3.3 out of 5
Jewel of the Seas

9 Night Greek Isles (Rome Roundtrip)

Sail date: October 16, 2017

Ship: Jewel of the Seas

Cabin type: Suite

Cabin number: 1536

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 7 years ago

Review summary

In a word ok. Served its purpose to visit Greek Isles and Pompeii. We got our own flights as they were a fraction of rc. Also took a LIMO from Rome To Civitavecchia as it was cheaper than rc’s shuttle. Over all the ship looked tired. The staff generally were very helpful.

Embarkation

4 out of 5
Quick but we did have priority boarding so jumped the enormous queues.

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

3 out of 5
Chops grill, we waited an hour for breakfast on day two. Also as a grand suite guest we thought it was a cheek to try and charge an extra 70 dollar dinner cover charge for Chops especially after our breakfast experience. Also Tides menu was very limited and not very palatable. We decided to eat at Windjammer which had a very good selection if difficult to find a table at busy times.

Onboard Activities

3 out of 5
As a grand suite guest we had no priority at either the pool or solarium. Pool was deep and whilpool good. very disappointing

Entertainment

No interest in acts

Children's Programs

No children

Service and Staff

3 out of 5
The concierge club was the only really good thing about our trip. Diego and Danny the barman were awesome

Ship Quality

3 out of 5
There was a wet patch in our corridor for the whole journey so they had a portable fan to dry it out

Cabin / Stateroom

4 out of 5
Elizabeth our stateroom attendant was very professional the room was always clean although the decor was very dated. Loved the daily towel animals.

Ship tip

Think it through and look out for all the extras! lots of costly extras.

Ports of call

Civitavecchia (Rome), Italy

4 out of 5
This was our embarkation point

Souda (Chania), Crete

5 out of 5
Absolutely fantastic, beautiful area. We did not do an excursion we did our own thing

Mykonos, Greece

2 out of 5
Smelt a lot of car fumes. We did our own excursion just wanted to get back to ship

Rhodes, Greece

4 out of 5
Liked Rhodes, good shopping area. Grand Master’s Palace was good. We did our own excursion

Santorini, Greece

3 out of 5
We did our own excursion liked the cable car. Delightful lady in Archealogical Museum.

Piraeus (Athens), Greece

1 out of 5
What a disaster. We paid $84 for our excursion and mainly saw nothing but graffiti owing to road closure to accommodate their local marathon. One stop at bottom of Acropolis to look at Parthenon at a distance and use the ‘selected’ gift shop.

Naples, Italy

5 out of 5
We paid for excursion to Pompeii and it was awesome. Our tour guide Valeri was so passionate it was an amazing experience.

Disembarkation

5 out of 5
Diego took us down. Easy disembark
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