Great ship. Lovely trip to NZ be prepared to line up for a lot of things.

Item: Ovation of the Seas
Rating: 4.4
Author: zolton69

Ovation of the Seas Cruise Review to South Pacific - Australia

zolton69

Contributor Level: Purser

Cruises: 2-3 cruises

Review: 1

Helpful Votes: 44

Overall rating:

4.4 out of 5

10 Night New Zealand (Sydney Roundtrip)

Sail date: February 26, 2019

Ship: Ovation of the Seas

Cabin type: Balcony

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 5 years ago

Review summary

Ovation is a lovely ship food was fantastic, ship kept amazingly clean, staff all lovely. Be sure you allow plenty of time to get off the ship on port days, we missed our bus(private company) at Wellington. Adults only solarium is a great place till relax but they need more of the lounges not enough to go round. Loved the north Star beautiful way to see NZ coast. The I-fly was fun definitely recommend just wish they would allow more than one go! Lifts can be really slow stairs can be quicker. Dodgem cars fun but the line ups can be huge.

Embarkation

5 out of 5

Fast on the boat in 15 mins

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

4 out of 5

great food however did not like our main dinning room experiences

Onboard Activities

4 out of 5

Great adults only solarium

Entertainment

3 out of 5

Good but not as good as the Explorer

Service and Staff

5 out of 5

Just fantastic everyone we dealt with exception to our waitress in the main dinning room, but only on one night, we only dined in the main dinning room twice, preferred the Windjammer.

Ship Quality

4 out of 5

Cleanliness outstanding but not the layout doesn't flow

Cabin / Stateroom

5 out of 5

First time balcony just fantastic especially for NZ wont go back now! Our cabin steward was great room always clean and professional service comfort and size both good

Ship tip

Be prepared to wait, allow heaps of time to get off the ship at on shore days, if they have the ticket system it takes even longer

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Ports of call

Sydney, Australia

4 out of 5

Cruise Milford Sound

5 out of 5

Jaw dropping!

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Cruise Doubtful Sound

5 out of 5

Pictures don't do these justice

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Cruise Dusky Sound

5 out of 5

Port Chalmers (Dunedin), New Zealand

4 out of 5

Did an excursion through local company, great day, visited a lot around the town and beyond

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Wellington, New Zealand

3 out of 5

Not enough time in this port only half a day took over 30 mins to get off the ship missed our bus(not through the ship) out to the Weta Cave workshop, made our own way there, highly recommend this tour

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Napier, New Zealand

4 out of 5

Very pretty town

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Picton, New Zealand

5 out of 5

Just beautiful, recommend a wine tour and the aircraft museum

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Disembarkation

4 out of 5

Good only took around 20 mins

3 Comments

Funtimetravels 5 years ago

@ellemay if you have the refreshments package or the alcohol package then yes lattes and coffee and everything else ( I forgot exactly what you asked about) is included. Starbucks is the only thing not included.

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Deej30 5 years ago

Drink packages allow all drinks expect top shelf drinks over $14 which incur an extra charge. There is good coffee in two70 for purchase and windjammers and la patessiere I didn't try but also do takeaway coffee.

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ellymay 5 years ago

Hi there. We are cruising on this ship in April. Just wondering if you could tell me if you are able to buy cappacino’s or latte’s? We have the drink package but can not find a definitive answer. We do enjoy a good coffee. Thankyou

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