Explorer of the Seas Review

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New Year's Eve Cruise on Explorer of the Seas

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Sail Date: Dec 2011
Cabin: Interior Stateroom

The embarkation and disembarkation was done perfectly without any wait time. Well done. The ship was probably sold out but we did not check with the captain on the number of passengers. The ship was always crowded no matter where we went. Dining room, promenade, buffet, any public area, it did feel like a holiday cruise, but somehow I wished it could be a little bit less crowded. The Promenade is beautifully decorated. Dining room food was good, although not exceptional. However, service was extremely good with a Caribbean team (our waiter is from Trinidad and our assistant waitress is from Dominican). Considering we had a group of ten and a large table is usually hard to serve, they really did a great job and we had very good dining experience. RCCL's ice show was always a sold out show so we were asked to obtain ticket on the first night. One member of our group went and waited in line for more than 30 minutes to get our tickets, why could they not let us do the booking on the interactive TV? Or let us reserve our seat online like the other RCCL ships (Allure and Oasis)? Due to the ice show time at 7 pm and our dinner time at 6 pm, we made a special request a day before for an expedited dinner service. We were extremely pleased with the service we got and we did not even miss the dessert and still on time to watch the ice show, well done.

There were very good musicians onboard, we like the Latin band Mambo Cliente and the Filipino quartet called New Version the most. Unfortunately they were assigned to two very tiny lounges to play most of the time. Mambo Cliente played at the Aquarium Lounge the most while The New Version Quartet played at the Dizzy Lounge the most. Both lounges were too small to accommodate the number of passengers who wanted to dance.

NYE celebration: well done with all the novelty and free champagne, the Promenade was flooded with people, luckily no stampede....

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Interior Stateroom

We had an inside cabin. An older, small (20"?) and big and clunky TV with very poor image quality, glad I am not a TV person. Good thing is their interactive program that allows us to check our account, that was when we discovered we were charged excessive amount for our internet usage when we still have money left in our internet package. We called the front desk, was told they would look at it, but we still had to visit the front desk to get it rectified.Not enough closet space to hang our clothing, its probably enough for only one person. Shower has curvy doors, better than shower curtain. Sink water pressure is too slow. Other than these it was fine.

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