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Nice But Not As Advertised

Ovation of the Seas Cruise Review to Hawaii

Cruises: 4-6 cruises
Review: 1
Helpful Votes: 20

Overall rating:

3.7 out of 5
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Ovation of the Seas

9 Night Hawaii Repositioning (Vancouver To Honolulu)

Sail date: October 06, 2023

Ship: Ovation of the Seas

Cabin number: GTY

Traveled as: Large Group

Reviewed: 1 year ago

Review summary

I was way disappointed in loosing two Hawaii days port of call on Maui. I understand why but I thing RC should have tried a little bit harder to make that up in Hawaii. We live near both Seattle and Victoria so they were not a interest to us.

Embarkation

4 out of 5
Smooth

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

4 out of 5
Good food but specialty a little expensive for what you received

Onboard Activities

4 out of 5

Entertainment

4 out of 5

Service and Staff

4 out of 5

Ship Quality

4 out of 5

Cabin / Stateroom

4 out of 5

Ship tip

This ship uses its internet satellite service to allow some cellular providers to broadcast their cellular service. This information was denied by the guest services staff but I confirmed with AT&T. I had to me a hidden cost for cellular that ran in the background. They need to detail what is available not just push their ship internet plans.

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Ports of call

Vancouver (Canada Place), British Columbia

3 out of 5

Victoria, British Columbia

4 out of 5
Always a nice place to visit however not on the itinerary when the trip was purchased.
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Seattle, Washington

1 out of 5
Had to go through customs here. Took over 3 hours to do this, just messed up our planned shore trip.
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Cruise Napali Coast, Kauai

4 out of 5
Great scenery but I'd have preferred to do a port stop.
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Honolulu, Oahu

4 out of 5
Ok, but it was the disembarking port so nothing fancy.
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Disembarkation

4 out of 5
Pretty fast
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6 Comments

Cruisers4Lyfe     4 months ago

Thanks for sharing
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Gwbigdog    1 year ago

Thanks for sharing
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joeyca84    1 year ago

Agreed. It was a bit disappointing as this was originally sold as a Hawaiian cruise and really was just a repositioning. I think they could have made an effort to tender us to one of the islands. Ah well. I thought the crew on board was phenomenal despite that.
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deboftheseas    1 year ago

I was on your sailing, got home today. There were a lot of legitimate reasons we couldn’t go elsewhere, sad to say. And yes, the Immigration for the USA was an absolute mess. We were lucky, first people through it at Two70, we were down there at 6 am, first in line, back onboard at 7:10 am. Took ship shuttle to Pikes Market, soooo many people there.
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javawoody    1 year ago

Thanks for sharing
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cruising2004    1 year ago

Thank you for your review.
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Great service but not a Hawaiian cruise