Explorer of the Seas reviews

Excellent service, great staff, good food in the dining room and select restaurants. Drinks package was excellent. Ship was spotlessly clean. Excursion to Santorini was a huge disappointment, not enough time to Oia and Fira.

Lots of amenities and food. Drinks expensive and no notice that our destination had been changed and time ashore reduced. A better overview schedule of the trip early on would have been useful instead of the daily program which was repetitive.

Thank you Planet Cruise for organising the extra night in Seattle - it certainly added to the whole experience. Loved the individual cars to take us to and from the hotel/ship etc just a shame we had to pay extra on arrival because of the huge delays in clearing American customs. As always the Royal Caribbean service was great on what was a fantastic itinery. This was our first holiday booked through Planet Cruise and it certainly all went very smoothly!

A full on but brilliant 80s throwback cruise. We loved every single minute!

Our cruise was very good but we did feel that Royal are cutting a few slight but important corners. In particular the entertainment. On 1 night there was no live headliner act in the theatre. We enjoyed the movie that was shown instead because fortunately we had not seen it, but going to the cinema is not something we would normally expect to do on a cruise. Also the Take That Experience, albeit that they were excellent, were on for 2 nights, basically repeating their show. Our biggest disappointment of all, and I think we should have been notified of this by Planet Cruise, or maybe Royal is that our original itinerary stated that we would arrive in to Le Havre at 10. 00 am. It was quite clear that this was never going to be the case and so our much researched plans of going into Paris on our own were not possible. Even if we had traveled in to Paris, we would not have had time to do what we had planned in one very much shortened afternoon.

This was the first time we’d travelled on the Explorer of the seas . . . . . it was fabulous! Lovely ship, excellent food in all restaurants and the entertainment was amazing! The only downside was the bar staff, not sure they have worked in such busy conditions or the British drinking habits but they got orders wrong and forgot several drinks, they just didn’t know how to serve people in an orderly way! Admittedly it was exceptionally busy weekend but it was advertised as a festival weekend and they should’ve been ready for the stampede.

Chaotic dining for 1st night. . . …. 6pm was too far overbooked resulting in queues or pax being sent to other decks to eat. 3 main acts were superb. Stateroom suitable, but in need of a refurb. Not much storage space.

A great, relaxing holiday on a lovely ship with excellent service.

Usual RC experience. the singer/pianist in the Schooner Bar was awful, apart from that it was fine

As good as always