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Voyager of the Seas Cruise Review to South Pacific - Australia

Cruises: 4-6 cruises
Review: 1
Helpful Votes: 73

Overall rating:

4 out of 5
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Voyager of the Seas

10 Night New Zealand (Sydney Roundtrip)

Sail date: December 29, 2015

Ship: Voyager of the Seas

Cabin type: Inside

Cabin number: 8637

Traveled as: Family (older children)

Reviewed: 8 years ago

Review summary

The variety of activities onboard was excellent.  We enjoyed the ice skating, rock climbing, sports court, flow riders, etc.  The nightly entertainment was also very good.

 

 

Tour – not enough staff to manage the people in the staging area.

Bathroom – had smell, shower floor side broken, sink slow drainage, toilet moldy

Stateroom – attendant did not change the glasses in the bathroom each day

Ice Skating – no direction on how to sign up

Windjammer – hours too short, plastic cups with stains – porcelain cups ok

Photo Gallery – cannot access photos when ship is in port

Deck 11 – forward starboard door to outside broken – can go out, but cannot re-enter – informed staff, but still not functioning the next day.

Poor air conditioning and air circulation throughout entire ship

La Scala Theater – seat drink holders do not fit any of the cocktail / wine glasses

Compass – many errors, especially on timing

Compass – no inserts on port of call with map and shuttle information, as with other cruises

Free port shuttles on other cruises, but not this one.

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

5 out of 5

Onboard Activities

5 out of 5

Entertainment

5 out of 5

Service and Staff

5 out of 5

Ship Quality

3 out of 5

Cabin / Stateroom

1 out of 5
Bathroom – had smell, shower floor side broken, sink slow drainage, toilet moldy Stateroom – attendant did not change the glasses in the bathroom each day

Ports of call

Sydney, Australia

5 out of 5

Cruise Milford Sound

5 out of 5

Cruise Doubtful Sound

5 out of 5

Cruise Dusky Sound

5 out of 5

Port Chalmers (Dunedin), New Zealand

5 out of 5

Wellington, New Zealand

5 out of 5

Picton, New Zealand

5 out of 5
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14 Comments

wgammon1    3 years ago

Glad you had a good cruise. Thanks for the review.

BrettRichards    8 years ago

Carnival has a better rating than P&O, but we found the service and food to be much better on P&O!!!

sharon0719    8 years ago

How much are the shuttles if they r not free? They were free on P&O so im surprised that rc isnt above them in that respect as rc has a high reputation.

cruisesareus    8 years ago

We have been on Voyager and Radiance . Where Voyager is larger Radiance has the wow factor as they have lots of windows in the public areas with amazing photos of the ocean. Back on Radiance Boxing Day this year Enjoy your cruise. We are members of the Crown and Anchor loyalty club love it

NikkiKlu    8 years ago

embarkation was a nightmare but princess was far worst. weve found carnival to be the quickest

googjack    8 years ago

wow didn't hear that Nicole . Singapore embarkation was a disaster. Looking ahead now to next cruise on Radiance in Sept 16 from Hawaii .Hopefully it will all be good.Happy cruising everyone

NikkiKlu    8 years ago

googjack, i was on your sailing in oct. rumor on the ship was that apx 150 staff had gone to shore and not returned prior to our sail. think that maybe why service in some areas was lacking.

Howesy    8 years ago

We were on Voyager in December and could fault nothing. None of your problems did we experience. To be honest we enjoy good things but we're not picky so if there were mistakes in the Compass we missed them because we were on holiday and didn't really see it as an issue. Our attendant. Changing everything daily and 2 cakes of new soap a day. You sound very picky.

leighanne79    8 years ago

We just came back from NZ cruise on diamond princess and none of the ports there had free shuttles.

philipc    8 years ago

no free port shuttles ?

Alexkan    8 years ago

I was told that voyager underwent a refurbishment prior to our sail so maybe that's why everything was good for us and happy cruising googjack

googjack    8 years ago

we did a 14 day cruise on Voyager last October from Singapore. We were disappointed as were many other guests.Going on Radiance in September 16.Hope we have a better experience. We could only compare with Diamond Princess which met all our expectations.Happy ctuising everyone.

Alexkan    8 years ago

Wow I was on the same ship last year for 14 days and it was everything the opposite to what you just said .....

Welsh    8 years ago

But apart from all that , you had a good time?