Mariner of the Seas Review

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This Cruise is Not Meant for Vegetarians, Jain or Vaishnavs

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pracheerk
First Time Cruiser • Age 40s

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Sail Date: Mar 2017
Cabin: Junior Suite
Traveled with children

Pathetic Food, very disapponted - All Snacks, Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner were absolutely with no taste and complete waste!!!

There is not much Food options available for Vegetarians and Jain people. In their 24 hr room service, you can only get Cheese Pizza and French Fries (2 options only) repeated every single day, and repeated for Lunch, Snacks and Dinner all times. Imagine how can you have same thing, all times, all 3 days? We dont drink alcohol and so we ended up paying a charge for each mineral water bottle to be USD 5.84 i.e. appx SGD 8. No water bottle offered free. People who drink get packages, in which they get free water. It seemed to me that this cruise was meant only for people who eat Non-Vegetarian food with multiple food choices for them, and only for people who drink Alcohol.

Speaking of my specific family, we are Indian Vegetarians, who doesn't eat Onion, Garlic and Mushrooms. We are not Jain, i.e. we can eat potatoes, carrot, ginger, etc.. its just onion, garlic and mushrooms that we don't eat. We are called "Vaishnavs" or what Mumbai people typically name us as 'Half-Jains'.

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Junior Suite

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Room was just ok, although our stateroom had a blocked view from balcony, it wasn't bad either...chkout my pics for balconey to get an idea

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Singapore

Singapore Port was good. Do not carry open snacks as they are very strict and will throw it away. You can carry packed snacks if you wish. Water bottle onboard is very expensive - SGD 8, so you may try to carry 2 mineral water bottles and see if they allow you to take it in, I couldn't try this.

Kelang (Kuala Lumpur)

The Port Klang was very clean. The taxi service was good, although the Malaysian cab was very small in size, difficult to fit in compared to Singapore taxi. They asked me 250 MYR but when I said I need pickup at 4 pm, not early at 2 PM, they increased the rate to MYR 330 which was fine. It's advisable you always book return trip, coz you may not find taxis in KL while coming back, and they may exploit and charge you heavily to come to Port Klang.

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