Beautiful Ports Ugly Outdated Ship

Item: Jewel of the Seas
Rating: 2.7
Author: CoralS2

Jewel of the Seas Cruise Review to Europe - Northern Europe

CoralS2

Contributor Level: Second Mate

Cruises: 7+ cruises

Reviews: 9

Helpful Votes: 135

Overall rating:

2.7 out of 5

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12 Night Iceland & Ireland (Amsterdam Roundtrip)

Sail date: July 02, 2022

Ship: Jewel of the Seas

Cabin number: 7524

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 1 year ago

Review summary

The ports were great and that I overshadowed the ship and everything lacking onboard. I would not recommend this ship until it gets updated.

Embarkation

3 out of 5

Everything backwards, checked in on 1 end walked all the way to other endof terminal and that had to walk all the way back to get on ship

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

2 out of 5

Not good windjammer awful dining room ok but wine selection absolutely embarrassing

Onboard Activities

1 out of 5

Entertainment

1 out of 5

Was like we had all the people who did not win on America's Got Talent ..a guy riding a BMX bike for 90 minutes I mean really ???

Children's Programs

No kids

Service and Staff

3 out of 5

Room steward and bartenders excellent can't say much about the remaining unfortunately

Ship Quality

2 out of 5

Nothing was being wiped down every table in public area dirty fingerprints everywhere was on ship in 06 and they haven't done a thing since

Cabin / Stateroom

1 out of 5

Coach filthy curtains almost black had stains all over the ceiling bathroom stink like mildew caroet stained drawers not closing properly

Ship tip

Choose a newer ship

Thumbs up

Ports of call

Amsterdam, Netherlands

5 out of 5

Arrived 2 days earlier and had a blast

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Akureyri, Iceland

5 out of 5

Took tour on our own beautiful city beautiful people

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Reykjavik, Iceland

4 out of 5

Toured on own ..very different from Akureyri this was major city nice to see also but other stop so much more beautiful.went to Blue lagoon which was amazing and did puffin tour

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Belfast, Northern Ireland

3 out of 5

Interesting in history but just toured on own not kept very nice but really neat murals and pubs and old architecture

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Dunmore East (Waterford), Ireland

4 out of 5

Did excursion with RCCL .. recommend doing your own and paying half the price..Waterford ok was thinking the Mid Evil museum wouldn't be right across the street from crystal factory thought it would be in countryside but all in all pretty little city

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Cobh (Cork), Ireland

4 out of 5

Rccl only had us there half a day almost imposyto fo anything it took 30 minutes or more to get to Cork. Trains were not running so buses only and had to come back after 1 1/2 hr in order to catch the bus back to ship on time.

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Disembarkation

5 out of 5

Quite quick and actually organized

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Other reviews of this sailing

Iceland amazing! Jewel of the Seas horrible!

Iceland Great - Ireland need more time there - ship is too old