Overalk, it was very nice and I enjoyed it. Would I do it again, yeah, probably.
Thank you Sharon, for getting us set up. All our needs for our room was done as asked. Loved the towel animals. These make my day.
Embarkation
4 out of 5
Ship experiences
Food and Dining
3 out of 5
Was disappointed with buffet, as I am a picky eater, not necessarily their fault, but I pretty much ate same stuff day after day. The only desserts, I really ate, was the chocolate chip and oatmeal cookies, but they seemed to have run out of chocolate chip cookies after only a few days and then last few days of trip they were out of all cookie.
I did have the fruit everyday, usually breakfast and lunch which helped some and I always could fall back on an ice cream cone.
Onboard Activities
4 out of 5
We played shuffle board once and had a good time with that.
I did do a massage and it was okay, not worth the money. I have had better back home for less than half the price. The hot tubs were my thing. Got in them almost everyday, however, was not happy when some older kids and their family were there, in the adult only side, and the youngest maybe 14 was carrying on with his brother in the hot tub. They should not have been on that side but I did not say anything, just but up with his antics fir a while till they finally went elsewhere.
Entertainment
4 out of 5
I enjoyed most of the shows however, had to leave before most were over because they wanted late dinners to go to first and early dinner to go to second, this only gave us 45 minutes till our dinning time, and so we had to walk out of shows.
Tried in the beginning to go to the late show, which started shortly after we were done dinner, but theater was always packed and hard to find a seat unless climbing over everyone, there were a few left. To find out, one of the reasons they were so packed was half the people, from the first dinnning time, went to both the shows.
To improve this, they need to make the first show time start when first dinner is and make the second one start when second dinner time is.
Service and Staff
4 out of 5
The service and staff did a good job for the most part. Tried to accommodate us, for the most part, if we asked for something.
Ship Quality
4 out of 5
Everything seemed to be ship shape. Everything seemed to be well kept.
Cabin / Stateroom
4 out of 5
Everything was good withe the cabin. A little tight along the side of bed to get in along the sides, since we had them pushed together to make one bed, but we were able to deal with it. Otherwise, there was plenty of drawers, more than we needed (which was fine because you never know) and plenty of hanging areaarea to accommodate us.
The biggest pain in the room would have been the TV placement (probably because of our beds put together). You had to move the TV one way get past it, to squeeze on the one side of bed. Then you had to turn it back towards the bed to get out the door, but it was doable.
Ship tip
Go to shows and wait to get in at least half hour prior. Go to adult hot tubs, in morning after breakfast, when there are fewer people there.
Did not do any excursions here, but road the free tram, which was great to get a feel of the place. There were four stops and we got off of 3 of them to check things out. One of the four stops you could only check out, if you had a reservation.
I like that they had this free tram to get around in. If I come again, I would probably put may bathing suit on underneath my clothes and stay longer in each area. Like the hammocks, however the first one I tried went straight to ground and hit my buttocks hard on the woid underneath(they should be checking these out to make sure they are safe to use). Was leary to try another but did so very carefully and it was OK to sit and lay in so I layed there for a little while and relaxed with the nice breeze.
It was fairly decent. A lot of walking to get to our excursion area, but doable. Our excursion here was great. We did the land and see one. It was very informative and a beautiful day on the Catamaran. The land portion, in an air conditioned van, was good too, but when we parked and had to walk down the hill to Queens staircase case, which we did not go down, because of an annoying person telling us stuff about it, which we already heard by our driver, and he kept hounding and wanting a tip. Needless to say, I regret going to the staircase to try and get picture and maybe go down, but did not do either because of this annoying man, instead we left and went back to the van and waited to leave the area for more touring.
We were not at the Royal Dockyards, but south end from my understanding. Fairly nice port. Got on our excursions close to boat vicinity. Since we stayed overnight here, we did an excursion both days. One land and one sea(glass bottom). Both excursions were ok. There were 48 people in our group for the land excursion. They seperated us in groups of 6 while waiting for the taxis, which was a van, so this wasted a fair amount of time. Maybe, they should have gotten us togetheron the ship and seperated us out prior and maybe the taxis should have have been waiting there for us when we got off the ship. That probably would have saved a lot of time. We were one of the last groups that left the area and it took away from our tour time, as things were getting close to closing till we got there. Our driver was very nice and informative but rushing to try to get us to places before they closed and before traffic got heavy. Very hard to take pictures while riding, especially since we were in back of van. Very busy island. Would have probably been better if our ship would have gotten there an hour or so sooner and time wasn't wasted on dock trying to get groups together and waiting for the taxi's to get there.
The glass bottom was also informative but there were 2 viewing areas and the guide was at one of them, so when she was telling about things we were seeing, one side was not seeing same as other, so a little disappointing to not necessarily see what they were talking about. All in all it was still a nice ride and good weather.
Horseshoe Beach was a beautiful beach.
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