Add a review of your last cruise for a chance to win £100 in Amazon Vouchers*

Explorer of the Seas, Northern Europe

I was for thirty years a deep water sailor with the Royal Navy, achieving the rank of Chief Petty Officer so I had a very clear view of life at sea, the Baltic and what this, my first commercial cruise, sailing from Southampton on the day of our fortieth wedding anniversary, could be like. I was astounded, not only were the magical bits, that fantastic sail into Stockholm, the weekend at St. Petersburg, Copenhagen, Oslo and Helsinki just as wonderful the second time around but the food, ambiance, service, simply being treated as a welcome guest on a vast and deeply attractive vessel just made everything even better than we had hoped. I cannot, truly cannot fault almost everything except, alas, departure at Southampton at the end which was frankly a bit chaotic. However I am unsure just how much (I suspect very little) was down to Royal Caribbean and how much (almost all of it) was down to Southampton Port.

Neil

Post Date: 17/02/2023

Score

Cruise Overall

Ship Overall

Dining

Service Onboard

Accommodation

Public Rooms

Boarding & Disembarking

Excursions

Value for Money

Review Images

Customer Reviews

Rachel wrote a review in Sep, 2021

Our cruise would have been amazing, had I realised that there would be many, many unruly young children on board, accompanied by their equally unruly parents. I had misjudged the timing of school hol...

Amanda wrote a review in Sep, 2021

Worst cruise we've been on, supposed to be transatlantic and caribbean, start of the cruise delayed by 3 days, then only got 1 caribbean port. No decent entertainment, food ok, cabin ok. Just seemed t...

Peter wrote a review in Sep, 2021

Our first time with RCCL, having cruised with several other companies. We had a balcony room which was both comfortable and spacious. From day one. We realised that we had chosen something special. We...

Christina wrote a review in Mar, 2022

As I a wheelchair user I needn't extra help with certain aspects, like embarkation and arrival and getting ashore. I found the staff helpful and accomodating in every respect. The beds were extremely ...