Enchantment of the Seas Review

My bad, booked a 5-day party cruise over Spring Break

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NWHairGal
6-10 Cruises • Age 40s

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Sail Date: Mar 2018
Cabin: Junior Suite with Balcony

Booked this cruise because we were getting off another cruise that day (it was a Monday) and wanted to cruise to finish off the week cruising before having to fly home on the weekend. I didn't even think about it being Spring Break and a 5-day party cruise until after we had already booked. My Bad! The ship was FULL of 20-somethings doing what 20-somethings do on a cruise on spring break. Not the ships fault, my fault for not putting 2 and 2 together before booking. Luckily there were no at sea days, & we could get off the ship and do our own thing during the days.

Embarkation was easy. Access to rooms was around 1pm. Hallways to the cabins were literally closed off by locked doors. There was a fun Calypso band playing on the pool deck while we waited to set sail.

Ship: Overall Enchantment is worked! We had a Jr. Suite, room 8118. The room itself was extremely spacious with a full bathtub. The view in the room was what I would consider the space of 2 full sized sliding glass doors. There was a full vanity with TONS of storage. A full couch, and two chairs with 2 ottomans and a coffee table and still lots of room to move about. That was Excellent. The balcony chairs were standard, non-reclining. The balcony's are NOT private, with opaque glass that you could somewhat see through at night if your neighbors lights were on. The glass was also angled at the top corner so that if standing by you railing, you can easily see your neighbor standing on their balcony or look into their room. Also, if I wanted to leave my curtains open while we slept, our neighbor could easily look into our room and see our bed via the placement of large mirrors in the room. Poor design. Also, our particular balcony, being on the 8th floor, was located next to a 9th floor bump-out by the ping pong tables, so anyone standing at those 9th floor windows could easily look into our balcony. Drainage was also a daily issue on our balcony as the daily maintenance pressure washing water pooled up in the edge gutter on the floor. So a few days my shoes, I left on the balcony, got wet by that drainage water. I used bath towels to soak up the extra water each day. Since we were on the 8th floor, I could easily hear the staff pushing their carts on the 9th floor pool deck with each wheel hitting every bump in the decking. Poor location. Something to consider when choosing a room. Also, the cabinets in our room were worn, like REALLY worn, where the finishes were just wearing off. There was fading on the wall above the bed where a picture once hung and has not been replaced and there was a non-removable smudge on the vanity mirror about 2-3 inches long and wide as well. Almost like hot glue that dried and couldn't be removed and was smudged. Drainage in the tub was very, very slow so I stood in a few inches of water with every shower. But eventually it did drain.

Cabin Review

Junior Suite with Balcony

Cabin JS

Very spacious room. Excellent value for the money space wise. However this ship including the cabins are extremely well worn and in desperate need of a renovation. Cabin steward was excellent. See my main review for more details.

Port Reviews

Key West

Rented a car to "drive the keys" and drive 7-mile bridge. Got to see the Southern most point, go to a beach, and walk around port. Very fun day, could spend more time here. Hindsight, if we hadn't wanted to check off our bucket list of driving some of the bridges of the Keys, I would have purchased the hop on hop off trolley. Parking our own car was a bear and had to Uber to the airport to pick it up & drop off! Overall, was a cute stop and I'd love to see more of it one day. Next time will buy the hop on/off trolley.

Nassau

Went to Atlantis on our own via taxi. Bought tickets online before we sailed. Great day

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