Let me also state by saying that we do not make a habit of writing reviews, however in this case we felt as if we should make our feelings known. These are our true and honest thoughts. We have done over 15 cruises so are not newbies.
We embarked the Explorer of the Seas at Southampton for our 12 night trip to the Canary Islands. We had a balcony cabin on deck 6 - this proved to be very quite and no problems arose.
When we purchased the cruise we were given a select drinks package, which as I am not allowed to drink was really of no use, however once on board we had it changed to the Royal Replenish package.
The Balcony cabin we booked was kept very clean and well serviced by our attendant Carlos. However the Balcony was quite small and unlike a lot of the RCCI ships it had a metal frontage on to the sea. So if you were sitting on the balcony a short person would be looking at metal and not sea. It was obvious that some attempt at painting at gone on, on the balcony as there were loads of paint pieces just laying about on the floor. Carlos did his best to clean these up but they had become stuck to the floor of the balcony.