Frozen2014
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Jan 12, 2014
We returned from a 4 night Mariner cruise and loved it! It was refurbished in June and our kids 13 and 9, particularly loved the SkyPad, the waterslides and Laser Tag. Ship is really beautiful as Royal ships tend to be, and great service and activities. The pools do get crowded on sea days (2 for all, plus there is 1 solarium pool).
We stayed in a spacious ocean view balcony. It has lots of space for a cruise room with many shelves and drawers for putting your stuff. Balcony was really nice to have...especially those early mornings before our kids woke up.
Food is subjective but we tried Chops for the first time and loved it. The other nights we ate in the MDR and were seated with 2 other groups (of 2 each) that were very nice to be with. Meals in MDR varied depending on what we got (garlic shrimp the best), but really no complaints. Definitely less options in terms of restaurants compared with Allure but no complaints as we certainly didn't go hungry. Breakfast we had in Windjammer except one morning we went oi MDR. They have really good Eggs Benedict and my daughter's strawberry pancakes looked delicious. You can order off the menu plus take items form the buffet they have out. Windjammer buffet is huge! Lunch was also in the Windjammer which had tons of variety.
Shows were pretty good....ice show, couple production shows and couple headliners that did comedy type shows.
Had a lovely time in CoCo Cay...really pretty beach. The loungers are included but we rented an umbrella for $30. Lunch is provided as well and they have activities on the beach.
We stayed on the ship in Nassau and enjoyed a quieter ship (best time to go on waterslides and SkyPad once it opened).
Let me know if any questions. We all had an amazing time. DH and I booked Independence for a few months from now we loved it so much (different class ship but seems similar)
We stayed in a spacious ocean view balcony. It has lots of space for a cruise room with many shelves and drawers for putting your stuff. Balcony was really nice to have...especially those early mornings before our kids woke up.
Food is subjective but we tried Chops for the first time and loved it. The other nights we ate in the MDR and were seated with 2 other groups (of 2 each) that were very nice to be with. Meals in MDR varied depending on what we got (garlic shrimp the best), but really no complaints. Definitely less options in terms of restaurants compared with Allure but no complaints as we certainly didn't go hungry. Breakfast we had in Windjammer except one morning we went oi MDR. They have really good Eggs Benedict and my daughter's strawberry pancakes looked delicious. You can order off the menu plus take items form the buffet they have out. Windjammer buffet is huge! Lunch was also in the Windjammer which had tons of variety.
Shows were pretty good....ice show, couple production shows and couple headliners that did comedy type shows.
Had a lovely time in CoCo Cay...really pretty beach. The loungers are included but we rented an umbrella for $30. Lunch is provided as well and they have activities on the beach.
We stayed on the ship in Nassau and enjoyed a quieter ship (best time to go on waterslides and SkyPad once it opened).
Let me know if any questions. We all had an amazing time. DH and I booked Independence for a few months from now we loved it so much (different class ship but seems similar)
and I think it would be an amazing trip! But Indy is similar to Freedom which I have been on twice and we really enjoyed. I think Indy is updated though, water slides and such... My son loves water slides.
