Hello from St. Tropez, what a glorious day. Had an early excursion this morning and now we're back home relaxing. We are LOVING the Explorer. I don't think I can find the words to describe how beautiful this ship is. We've finally had a chance to explore most of it and each area, each restaurant forward and aft are amazing. They didn't spare any expense that's for sure.
We're in an F2 (732) and love the room. Getting use to the closet took a few minutes since we're use to something wider with double hanging bars. Instead, this has one much longer bar and wider drawers. There's a full length mirror at the end. Once everything was in I realized how much more the closet holds compared to the Voyager. Our bathroom is fabulous, separate tub and shower, double sinks and LOADS of storage above the sinks/below the mirror as well as loads of drawer space. There's even a hand towel bar in-between the two sinks which makes so much sense. Our balcony is also longer than the standard Voyager with real nice chairs that recline and a larger table if you eat outside.
We have friends in a G cabin so got to take a peak at theirs too. They're smaller than the standard Voyager cabin but not by much. The closet is smaller but definitely doable.
We are definitely HAPPY campers. The standard menu at Compass Rose has changed drastically. It is much larger and so many options. For example, Dover Sole is an always available and there's about 5 different sauces you can order with it if you want, same with all the different types of steaks. They've really incorporated items that use to be just at specialty restaurants onto the "always available" menu. I think they're testing this out on the Explorer and will be rolling it out on all 3 other ships. We had a great, fun table for 6 last night and everyone raved about the food and the new menu....something for everyone! The Explorer lounge is next to Compass Rose so we stopped off and danced awhile after dinner...felt like old times!
The spa and gym are like something out of this world. Fabulous.! The only very strange thing we noticed and commented on was that from the spa you must go up a circular staircase to get to the gym. That seems like poor planning, what about people in wheel chairs or have mobility issues that can't go up the stairs ?
