Well worth it and relaxing.

Mariner of the Seas Cruise Review

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Reviews: 6
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Overall rating:

4.9 out of 5
Mariner of the Seas

8 Night Caribbean & Perfect Day (Port Canaveral Roundtrip)

Sail date: June 26, 2022

Ship: Mariner of the Seas

Traveled as: Family (young children)

Reviewed: 2 years ago

Review summary

Awesome cruise and 8 nights gives you time to relax and enjoy the ship and all the things to do onboard.

Embarkation

5 out of 5
It was smooth and make sure you save the email for your covid results as when checking in they want to see the email and not a screen shot.

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

5 out of 5
Windjammer was good and they had a good variety of food for breakfast,lunch and dinner. The main dining room food was good but the baked potatoes were warm and not hot. The waiters and servers were working at 100% and you can tell they were a bit stressed.

Windjammer Café

4 out of 5

Good place to get food for breakfast lunch and dinner if you dont want to do the main dining.

Onboard Activities

5 out of 5
The rock wall was nice and the sky pad was cool, far as the ice skating get there 1hr early so you get a spot to skate as it books up quickly.

Dunes Mini Golf

5 out of 5

Fun to play and it's a good time killer

Center Ice Rink

5 out of 5

Fun to skate but be sure to bring long pants and and socks before you head down to skate,also if you want to skate arrive 45min early to get a spot to skate as the 1st session sold out fast and the 2nd session went just as quickly.

Entertainment

4 out of 5
They were good and the group at the pool had way way way to much bass on all of the songs as you couldn't hear the song but they cleared that issue up quickly and then they were sounding good.

Sky Pad

5 out of 5

My daughters loved it and it was awesome when they put on the virtual reality headset.

Arcade

5 out of 5

They have some fun games but be careful as any of your seapass cards will work ,so don't let your kids go crazy as most games are $2.00 and it adds up quickly.

Savoy Theatre

5 out of 5

The acts they had were good but the magician was ok even some heckling was thrown around by some punk teens!

Children's Programs

4 out of 5
The kids registered but didn't go as they remembered it wasn't much fun on our last Royal cruise and they said Disney kids clubs are 1000% better, they knew it was Disney but they are spoiled

Adventure Ocean

4 out of 5

The kids really didn't want to go play as they has more fun on there own.

Service and Staff

5 out of 5
The dining room staff and servers were feeling the pressure of the ship at 100% capacity. Our room attended Buster was worth his weight in gold and works fast as the turn down service was done in 10min.

Ship Quality

5 out of 5
She is in good shape and the decor of the staterooms kinda give you thar 80s-90s feel with the pink,blue and coral colors. I really loved the big touch screen monitors elevators as you could find anything or the schedule for the day activities

Cabin / Stateroom

5 out of 5
Plenty of room and it was 8514 and the only issue was a few nights when we had some rough seas the carts and items weren't secured down in the theater they were banging around and woke us up as it sounded like we had hot a submarine or a aircraft carrier.

Ship tip

Have fun and if your eating at 6pm go to the 10pm show as you won't make the 8pm show.

Ports of call

Labadee (Cruise Line Private Island)

5 out of 5
Good private island and use the trams as it will save you alot of walking, also if you do the dragon coast and paid for a 1 time run then go do the ride after lunch but do it 2 hrs before your schedule ti het back onto the ship as the staff at the coaster will let you ride the ride multiple times, the staff guys are awesome!!!

Frederiksted, St. Croix, U.S.V.I.

5 out of 5
This port is small and we only had a few hours in port (5hrs)there is a beach to the left once your off the pier and it's within walking distance.

Basseterre, St. Kitts

5 out of 5
Awesome port and it's a laid back vibe and no rushing.

San Juan, Puerto Rico

5 out of 5
Beautiful place ace and different vibe far as no stress and not rushing. I love this port and you can feel the love

Perfect Day At Coco Cay, Bahamas

5 out of 5
This place has everything you would want to do and you have to pay for alot of things, the food was better here than on the ships at time. What sucks is we had 1 other ship on the island with us so 8000 people is alot for this island and if you arrive after the 1st ship it will be hard to find some chairs. The local bahama shops have some nice items and they are proud of the prices to.

Port Canaveral, Florida

5 out of 5
We sail out of the port and it's awesome to see SpaceX presence in the area and you can see alot of the SpaceX ships barges,and rockets from the cruise ship depending on where its docked at.

Disembarkation

4 out of 5
Pay attention to you waiting area and estimated departure time as we ate breakfast in Windjammer and we only heard 1 announcement for the 1st group to depart. We walked to our departure waiting area and we heard all of the announcements and they called our group 22. I feel like announcements were turned off in Windjammer so pay attention.
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9 Comments

propwash79    2 years ago

It was well worth it and 8 night cruise is relaxing but non seasoned cruisers may find 8 nights to long, for me that just 8 nights of no work and getting paid....vacation pay !!!

Dvsdog76    2 years ago

Some very awesome pics you posted prop!! Glad y’all had fun

AuntPinkie    2 years ago

Nice details. Glad you enjoyed your adventure!

propwash79    2 years ago

Your welcome

byhisgrace    2 years ago

Appreciate your feedback

GabeNSteph    2 years ago

Thanks for sharing

WhippetMum    2 years ago

Glad you enjoyed your cruise

javawoody    2 years ago

Thanks for the review

Gwbigdog    2 years ago

Thanks for sharing your cruise

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