Splendour of the Seas Review

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Review for the Eastern Mediterranean Cruise on Splendour of the Seas
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krisdeines
2-5 Cruises • Age 60s

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Sail Date: Jun 2013
Cabin: Superior Ocean View Stateroom with Balcony
Traveled with children

I have only been on one other cruise which was in the Caribbean and that was many years ago. This cruise was very good with only a couple of things I did not like.

First the good:

The ship was wonderful, the staff from room attendants, to food service people were great. The room we booked was perfect. I have never been much of a boat person and came prepared for the worst with see sick meds, but only needed it once mostly for nerves. We were on the top deck at the very back of the boat, don't remember the room number but it was 8086. Excellent room with a balcony and we got great views any time of day or night, The food was very good and selection was nice was well. For what we got I thought the price was fair. The on board shops were OK, not a huge selection but this is not a huge ship. I bought some clothes and jewelry which I thought were pretty good deals. We ate in the restaurant all but 2 nights where we went to two of the pay extra places. The best was Izumi, which is an Asian/ sushi restaurant. The food was excellent but the best part was the waiter Rosanno who made the evening special. I like spicy food and he went to the kitchen and made 3 types of wasabi with different levels of hot that were incredible. He also talked about where he grew up, his life and was interested in us as well. We had a great time I would give this place a 5 star rating. We did not book any of the off shore excursions mostly because we thought they were to expensive. I think this was the case except for our stop in Turkey, where it might have been worth the money to visit, as time was short. The other ports were very nice. We stopped in Split Croatia, Kusadasi Turkey, Mykonos Greece, and Katakolon Greece (Olympia). We had two days at sea as well. If you take this cruise there are excursions at all stops but I cannot comment on them as we did not use any. I will say that unless you want a guided tour the stop in Katakolon Greece can be made special depending on how adventurous you are. We decided to rent a car from Avis and drive the 30 minutes to Olympia and see the sites our self. The drive was very easy and we paid with gas 65 euros for 5 people. This was far less expensive then the boat sponsored tour. We had to pay for our entry into Olympia bit it amounted to 15 - 20 euros per person. If we had went by bus we could not have found a great restaurant in town called the Aegean which on Trip Advisor I rated a 5 star, it was incredible. Over all the cruise was very good except for a couple of things.

Cabin Review

Superior Ocean View Stateroom with Balcony

Cabin D1

Great room, for 3 of us. Two parents and teenage son. took lots of pictures from deck and had a great panoramic view when leaving ports. Great sunsets as well. Would book this room again.

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