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Review for Canary Islands Cruise on Explorer of the Seas
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harveydog111
2-5 Cruises • Age 70s

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Sail Date: Aug 2015
Cabin: Superior Oceanview Stateroom with Balcony
Traveled with children

My wife and I travelled to Southampton from Essex with our daughter and husband and their little girl aged 2 1/2 on The Explorer of the Seas. We arrived about 11.30 and were pointed in the direction of the car park. Our bags were collected off us and put into a van and we had a couple of minutes walk to the terminal. We were through check-in and on board by 12.15, really easy and no real queuing.

The Explorer is a large ship and was fully booked for the trip to the Canary Islands this included about 960 children. After reading various bad reviews about the Explorer I must say I had some concerns but I am of the opinion that these people must have been on a different cruise ship! Overall you could not have told that this was a 15 year old ship.There were new carpets throughout the ship and everywhere was kept clean.

Our first day out across the Bay of Biscay was fairly rough and windy so not many people on deck (plenty of room round the pool!] so was pretty busy inside so if you have bad weather you must expect this.

Cabin Review

Superior Oceanview Stateroom with Balcony

Cabin D2

Cabin was perfect. New carpets sofa and curtains. Bathroom good and has shower with doors and good size. Our daughter had an inside opposite 9649 and although smaller was o.k

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Southampton

easy to board

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