Seven Seas Mariner Review

Totally Disappointing

Review for South America Cruise on Seven Seas Mariner
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10+ Cruises • Age 80s

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Sail Date: Mar 2015

We booked this cruise to celebrate my husbands retirement and our Pearl wedding anniversary so decided to splash out a bit. We booked this cruise 8 months ago as we wished to select our cabin. Even so, the lowest category available was a concierge suite and there were only 4 choices. We chose our cabin based on being on shore side of ship with more sun as this cruise hugs the coast. With this suite we had privileges of a third discount on land tour, free night in hotel, 400 minutes of wifi, binoculars and priority booking of free excursions and specialists restaurants. We were actually only allowed to book once at the two specialist restaurants.

We booked land tour to Iguacu Falls which was the highlight of whole trip but not without lots of timing problems. Hotel in BA was at best only 4 star again with some issues. Hotel in Falls was brilliant but we didn't arrive until after dark and left again at 7am so couldn't use their wonderful pool and appreciate fully the location. Whole tour far too rushed.

Other excursions except for Rio weren't up to much with timings all wrong again. Very very disappointing. We paid for our Rio trip on top of cruise price because we thought it would ensure we saw all places of interest and also included lunch. This lunch was mediocre, a Brazilian Bbq, but we didn't have time for pudding or coffee which of course should have been included. We later discovered Regent had arranged a further trip on the day we left the ship which meant we ended up doing same thing twice and we needn't have paid $150.

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Cabin Concierge

Very small but reasonably equipped.

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Santos (Sao Paulo)

Did not go ashore as trip we booked was altered to include an hour and half of walking which we didn't want to do so cannot comment any more. Weather also not good on this occasion

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