Mariner of the Seas Review

Mariner Transatlantic - Miami to Rome

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Sequim88
2-5 Cruises • Age 60s

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Sail Date: May 2012
Cabin: Deluxe Oceanview Stateroom with Balcony

Mid-50's empty nesters celebrating 35th anniversary with a transatlantic cruise. My wife is paralyzed on right side so uses wheelchair, thus we booked accessible balcony cabin (category AX) over a year in advance. After booking we learned Mariner was scheduled for drydock (and later Royal Advantage upgrades) just prior to the sail date.

Pre-Cruise: Flew US Airways to Miami and stayed two nights at Holiday Inn Port of Miami-Downtown. This hotel has been undergoing renovation for several years and is very nice and in convenient location across from Bayside Marketplace. Room was small but had been updated and was clean and comfortable and orice was right.

Sail Day: Royal Caribbean changed the departure time from 5pm to 8pm with no notice to passengers until 48 hours prior to sailing although set sail pass had the new time 75 days in advance. Just prior to sail date they did mass emailsing and phone calls (caller ID was 1111111111 so we had ignored it) to tell people not to arrive before 3pm. Having nowhere else to go with luggage we arrived at 1:00pm and boarded by 2pm. Sailing was delayed until 8:30pm. Muster drill went well and was actually at a lifeboat location for us.

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Deluxe Oceanview Stateroom with Balcony

Cabin E2

Cabin 7300: This is an accessible balcony stateroom - category AX. All the standard accessibility features were present except there is no power door opener. Still the door did have a delayed closer that held it open long enough to roll wheelchair out into hallway. Ramp to bathroom was less noticeable than Radiance class but balcony had a flip down metal ramp on the outside that when not flipped down was a trip hazard for AB persons. When flipped down it also prevented sliding door from being closed. Upgrades in dry dock added LCD TV with interactive features. Good location not far from elevators on Starboard side. Very quiet.

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