Explorer of the Seas Review

Cruising with Royal Carribean

Review for the Eastern Caribbean Cruise on Explorer of the Seas
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tdgonzalez0406
First Time Cruiser • Age 40s

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Sail Date: Jan 2010

We choose to give Royal Caribbean a try because this ship was leaving from New Jersey and we live in New Jersey. We choose it because of the convenience factor of not having to fly out to cruise like we usually. Previously we had only been on Carnival Ships and loved everything about there fleet.

The Explorer of the Seas was directed beautifully through the hallways. We loved the look of the ship. Embarkation on the ship was a nightmare! It had snowed the day we were leaving. The night before we stayed in Country Inn Suites and took there shuttle to the port. The traffic was horrible! We waited in a long line of cars and traffic for almost 2 hours! That was just to get out of the shuttle. After that the checking in process was very easy. We quickly got on the ship and were starving. Unfortunately for us they just closed the buffet style dinner at the top of the ship and there was only one place to get food until dinner. Since they only had one place to get food we waited in a very very long time to eat since everyone was just getting on the boat and getting food. We never had this kind of wait on any Carnival Ship. They always made sure there was plenty of food places open to eat when you first got on the ship!

Even Though the ship was beautiful, we were disappointed with our Balcony. It was large but had disgusting mold and paint spots all over it. Again, we never had this kind of issue with Carnival. There was 2.5 days out to sea on this ship and you would think there would have been lots of activities to keep you busy. However there was very little to do for us. The kind of activities they had were napkin folding and jewelry making just to name a few. We did have a great time with the dance lessons but other than that we kept getting bored and there was little to do.

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We stayed on the front side of the ship which made the rocking very bad. We had a balcony room which was very dingy outside but the room inside was very large.

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