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Average Ratings for Thomson Destiny, Coral Islands and Caribbean gems

  • Food - quality & variety4.3 stars
  • Entertainment on board4.6 stars
  • Value for Money4.4 stars
  • Overall rating4.1 stars

7 Reviews For Thomson Destiny, Coral Islands and Caribbean gems

  • Guest 27th Mar 2009

    Reviewer rating: 4.5 stars


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    Good Points: Food excellent and services excellent on the Coral Islands and Caribbean gems cruise. Entertainment excellent.

    All public areas looked clean and the ship insist on hand sanitising for their restaurants. However, you still see people dodging the rules and not doing this in the Lido Restaurant and not covering their bodies up when going in there.


    Bad Points: Cabins are a little small but don't be put off by that, you hardly spend any time in them and soon get used to the reduced space. There was plenty of hanging space in our wardrobes.

    Very trivial but the onboard shop stocked a poor supply of sun cream, there was only factor 2 sun oil available. In this day and age with people more cautious in the sun you would have expected a higher factor range.

    Although Dominica was a pretty island the port we docked in (Portsmouth) was disappointing and there was literally nothing there, so would not recommend that.


    General comments: This was our first cruise on Thomson Destiny's Coral Islands and Caribbean gems cruise and we thoroughly enjoyed it. We travelled round the Carribean on the Destiny for two week 22/02/09 - 8/03/09.

    The ship is old as people have stated but they have attempted to modernise areas of it. We have nothing to compare it to and thought the whole ambiance was great.

    The Restaurant food was excellent and the staff couldn't do enough for you, which makes such a difference. Service with a smile continually.

    Entertainment was fantastic, it was like visiting a west end show every night, there's so much effort and professionalism within the entertainment teams.

    We really enjoyed the whole itinerary and the Islands we visited.

  • ballen Rank: Lance Corporal 18th Mar 2009

    Reviewer rating: 4 stars


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    Had a wonderful cruise around the Caribbean on the Destiny 1 -7th March and then a weeks stay at the Palladium in Bavaro Dominican Republic - returned home Monday16th. We have stayed at this hotel three times before and knew we would have a brilliant time, although the entertainment is not as good as on the Destiny - in the Caribbean the entertainment is very different. We have returned home very relaxed. We cannot wait to book the next one - with Thomson of course!

  • scottdavid 20th Feb 2009

    Reviewer rating: 5 stars


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    The Thomson Destiny, Coral Islands and Caribbean gems cruise just exceeded all our expectations. As a group of seven, five of us had cruised before, with two novices! It was great not having to go into the airport in the Dominican as we walked round the side and all boarded coaches (no arrival or departure tax is payable for cruise passengers) There was a delay as the coaches were staggered and with no one to explain why, it seemed to me like some people were getting irriated. However this was ...

  • Ella Grace 7th Jan 2009

    Reviewer rating: 4.5 stars


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    The staff were great, efficient and courteous. The entertainment staff were the best we have seen, this was our 4th cruise. Congratulations Thomson they made our 6 days transatlantic crossing enjoyable as there was certainly enough to keep us occupied. Everything about our holiday was really memorable and we loved all the ports of call but the "icing on the cake" was our last stop Catalina Island when they really exceeded any expectations - the organisation was brilliant although we believe this ...

  • barriedrewitt 27th Dec 2008

    Reviewer rating: 5 stars


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    I loved the Thomson Destiny ship. The staff were great, the food was great and the children had the best holiday ever. Love the smoking policy, same as the UK. No bad points. We have just rebooked to go back on this ship. we loved ever bit of it. Last cruise with this ship was on the MED, now we are on the Carribean cruise, we are very excited to go back.

  • Guest 25th Dec 2008

    Reviewer rating: 3.5 stars


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    Thomson if you read this do yourself a favour and dump Dominica Republic as the airport cannot handle the amount of people arriving and departing from your cruise the Destiny it was murder all 5 flights delayed because of lack of staff ,and no reps from Thomsons anywhere at the airport. This was so badly organised, we few back to Gatwick 2 hrs delay still refueling plane as we were boarding and only food on board for 100 people

  • virgo Rank: Lance Corporal 22nd Dec 2008

    Reviewer rating: 2.5 stars


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    Tropical Atlantic cruise on the destiny. First time on this ship. Maybe their biggest, but no where near as nice as the celebration. Staff are much better on the celebration. some on the destiny never smiled. Cabins are small, storage is useless, no where to hang a dress neatly. Thomson have always provided one smoking bar. Now only outside smoking is allowed. The outdoor bar shut at 4pm while we were at sea 6 days. Bad weather and wind made getting a smoke a Artic affair. Once in Carribean it s ...

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