I would always say that people generally will only review if they haven't had a good experience and I therefore am going to defy the negative critics and give a positive review of our experiences on the Explorer of the Seas in June 2015.

I would say that we chose RC to be on a family friendly Ship, which was the case with our family holiday, we travelled with our 5 & 10 year old children and they also had a great time, kids club was fantastic and the loved their time in the club and there is a reasonable amount of activities to keep the kids entertained with Ice skating, Rock climbing etc etc.

There were a fair few slightly older guests on board the ship more than I had thought there would be, perhaps Cunard cruising might have been more their cup of tea and they did tend to be the worst culprits for hogging sun beds in two locations and for some reason they always wanted to be right next to the pools that they never used but to be fair most families with young children got their heads around getting up and reserving sun beds nice and early! That said there was only a problem on cruise days reply as lots of people go out for the days while in port! Read more