Star Review 6/28-7/5

[sealuber]

Just got off the Star this morning at around 10:00 am. What can I say??? This was our first cruise and..... The opinions expressed here are strictly my opinions and I stand by what I observed and witnessed :0) with that I will continue with my first review of my very first cruise.

Saturday 6/28

The embarkation was as easy as pie. We arrived a little after 10:30 a.m. We were a party of 6 people. 4 adults and two children. We drove down to Seattle as we only live about 80 miles away in Bellingham, WA. My friend was meeting us at Pier 66 so she was going to take my Surburbahn for the week so we did not have to pay for parking. We arrived with a ton of luggage which was quickly taken by a Porter that led us to where we needed to show our cruise ticket and passports. We were not to see our luggage again until later on in the afternoon. We were directed to the elevators since my son is in a wheelchair and went through security rather quickly. Once we were upstairs we took our pictures for our room keys and gave them our Credit Card for room charges. They let us on a little after 12:00 pm saying that our rooms would be ready around 2:30. As soon as we embarked we took our pictures and made our way up the gangway. The Star took my breath away! As we entered we were directed to the buffet, since I have spent countless hours on CC I knew to go directly to Verasilles which we did. I also knew to make reservations at Cagney's ASAP as I had a buy one dinner get one free at any speciality restaurant for the first night. Verasilles was still closed so I decided to go ahead and sign the kids up for kids club and we made our way to the Spa after that to get the couples special. It was 140.00 for the spa for two for the week. Very well worth it in my opinion as we were there every day twice on our 2 sea days. By the time we did all of that Verasilles was open and off to lunch we went. I made sure to order their chilled fruit soup which was excellent. I also had a sandwich and dessert.(the first of many) After that our rooms were ready and we headed to them. When we arrived they had a bottle of bubbly waiting for us. We had preordered the anniversary package. This was our first cruise so I had booked an inside cabin and it was the wheelchair accessible one on the 10th floor. I was impressed with the size of it. My son was able to manuver in and out of the room with ease. We decided to explore the ship the kids went to kids club. Everyone seemed so friendly, I was in awe of the way the ship all came together it was time for our sail away and it was held by the pool. We had fantastic sunny weather. We were out until about 6:00 pm when we arrived to our stateroom our luggage was waiting outside. Unfortunatly one piece was missing, mine. I called downstairs and they told me to wait until 8:00pm. The only problem I had with that is that we had reservations at Cagney's and I wanted to change. It was compounded by the fact that my dh had said that he did not remember putting my luggage in our truck. About 7:45 I went back down to reception and sure enough the luggage tag had fallen off and it was sitting in the back waiting to be claimed. I would have not been so worried if my husband had remembered that he HAD loaded up my luggage. Disaster averted, we went to Cagney's and the food was wonderful. DH had the prime rib which was smooth as butter and the rest of us had fillet mingon. The only drawback that I saw was that the service takes forever, it took us about 2.5 hours to get from appetizerto dessert. We did miss out on the shows that evening. On a brighter note my TA sent me the wrong cupon book and they were not going to honor my 2 for one. The Maitre D saw my frustration and sent someone to the front desk and exchanged my booklet for the correct one. We then went down to the Casino for awhile then went back to our staterooms to get ready for our next day.

[NEW 2 CRUISIN]

WOOHOO!

 

FIRST CRUISES ROCK! :D

 

Sound slike you are off to a reat start! Hope there's lots mor egood stuff to follow!

 

We are on the STAR for the first time coming up in October and each review gets us more excited about it!

 

Thanks for sharing your story - the good, the bad, and the ugly - however it turns out - here with us!

 

:)

[Teacherph]

So far so good....waiting anxiously for more!:D

[CruiseMan1970]

Great to hear a first timer had a good time on the Star. My wife and I are going to be on the Star in September for our Tenth Ann.

 

One thing that I have learned from these boards is that you should pack

a few things in each others lugage, just in case the missed bag is your/ glad that everything worked out for U.

[thecatsmeow]

Great review! Glad your first cruise was a good one.

 

CruiseMan come join our roll call for the 9/27 cruise on the Star.