We selected this cruise to see the leaf color in New England and to celebrate my wife's birthday which occurred on the cruise--12 October. We've sailed from Baltimore before and it is one of the more convenient cruise ports from our home in Wake Forest, NC. We drove up the day before and spent the night at the Hampton Inn in Glen Burnie, MD. They offer a sleep, park, ride package that includes ...
We choose this cruise for the northeast ports of call. This was a repositioning cruise from Quebec City to Fort Lauderdale. We booked a Panoramic Oceanview cabin which we just loved. When first booked I tried to check reviews for our cabin on Cruise Critic but was advised there are no staterooms on deck 12. Got a bit worried about that bit of news. The addition of staterooms on deck 12 began last ...
Although the weather was not the best, this cruise offered a very interesting and fun itinerary including Canadian, New England and, finally, Florida ports. They did a good job of both embarkation and disembarkation, especially considering the large number of passengers boarding at the small terminal in Quebec City. The ship is in good shape, and qualifies as not too big and not too small. The ...
The staff where OUTSTANDING. My wonderful wife required a little special diet items, the wait staff went out of their way to take care of it on a daily bases( even while serving 3,000 others).
Like all our RCCL cruises the food quality was very good. We generally ate breakfast and lunch at the buffet , we loved the many choices available and it was done well. We ate our dinners in the MDR. We ...
First time on Anthem doing the Cruise from New York through New England (in the fall).
The Cruise was a package through Iglu, two days in Niagara, two days in New York, then join the Ship for a 9 day Cruise of new England.
The Niagara and NY parts were great, although if you intend to do this, try and get a direct flight to Toronto, and cancel the Amtrak train journey to New York, We ...
First cruise on Anthem sized ship, We normally prefer the Jewel of the Seas or similar.
Embarkation was an absolute breeze. On the ship within 10 minutes. Well done RCI. If only the debarkation was anywhere near to satisfactory. More about that later.
Cabins were available at 1pm as advised. We had a D5 on Deck 9 near the front and it was excellent. The room attendant, Maali was very ...
As basically small ship cruisers, we chose Anthem as we were a group from almost 3 to mid-50's and were looking for something that would be enjoyed by all to celebrate my husband's 80th birthday. We did the 10 day New England portions by ourselves and the rest of the family joined us for the Bermuda hop.
I must admit that we were pleasantly surprised, although there were times that I felt ...
Our departure city was Beyonne, New Jersey. We flew in the day before and stayed in Elizabeth, NJ where we ate dinner out but then stayed the rest of the night in our hotel room. We Ubered to the port the next day. Even though we went earlier than our assigned time, we were allowed to board. My husband had misplaced his boarding pass but the port staff were great and ran another copy for him. ...
Embarkation was a breeze, Boston had improved the process tremendoulsly. Although the ship is looking a little tired, she is still beautiful. We had great weather with rain only one day on the way home for 15 minutes in the morning. Rocking seas on way down made for the solarium pool to become a carnival ride if you dared to enter. Our room was a balcony near the forward of the ship. Great ...
We chose the cruise for the departure city, as well as the destination and the schedule. Not to mention RCL was my favorite line and we would be the only ship in dock.
We arrived on time at the port in Boston and getting on the ship was fairly quick and easy.
The ship was beautiful and easy to navigate, we had "scored" one of the newly created ultra large ocean view cabins on the deck 7. ...