Island Star Cruise Ship
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Island Star Cruise Ship Reviews
I read with great interest the ongoing reviews of the Island Star and have an update to my review from 18/12/08 til 01/1/09 and yes this still is the worst holiday ever! It is a shame I am unable to post the photos from my dirty and filthy room on this page as this would... more
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I read a few reviews before going on this holiday, if I had believed them I would have cancelled my holiday, thank goodness I did not. Yes we had to go to a large hanger at the dock, this was for imigration purposes, for passengers embarking on the Island Star. I found the... more
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just returned from 2 weeks on the island star with 6 friends we had a fab time after reading the reviews before we went we were a bit worried have they been on the same ship all the crew were fantastic nothing was to much trouble .we had a hicup with the public loos on the... more
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Me and My Hubby,Peter,booked the Island Star,for the 15th to the 29th,of January,2009.We had a ball!!! This was our first ever cruise,and we would definitely go back again.Ok the ship was a tired ship,19 years in service is a long time,especially when you consider the... more
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Having just returned from a fantastic cruise on the island star all i can say is are they sure they were on this ship. Yes okay the ship could do with a face lift but it was spotless. The food was excellent and entertainment outstanding. The Captain JC made days at sea... more
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Ciggies, Cancer and Crap Our non smoking family group of five adults and two teenage boys arrived on board the Island Star on the afternoon of New Years day. After a wee kip my wife and went to explore the boat and we where shocked to discover that smoking was not only... more
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We are a family of two teenagers and two adults. We flew from Gatwick with Thomas Cook, all the flights to Barbados were delayed but we were the least delayed. Plane was old a grubby with a smashed mirror held with duck tape. Island Star a tatty dirty ship and we were very... more
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Abysmal Food!!! We joined the Island Star on Jan 1st, having been on the Island Escape in summer 2007. We expected at least the same standards, if not better - is not the Island Star supposed to be the flagship - admittedly of only 2 ships but well.... Yes the cabins were... more
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Our Caribbean cruise lacked one ingredient - the Caribbean. The food was generally of a poor standard and aimed at the British traveller, whereas we expected Caribbean cuisine, not tinned fruit, tinned beans and tinned tomatoes, something we can have every day at home. ... more
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My husband john booked us on the island star for the christmas and new year,being as i lost my mum in march 2008. he thought it would be a pick me up, how wronge he was. It started of with delays at airport,then a stop off at Belfast sitting on runway for 1hour 15mins,then... more
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We have read the reviews of fellow passengers on the Island Star in the Caribbean and although our cruise was far from perfect, we do wonder if we were actually on the same ship! Other cruise review websites have negative and positive reviews, and some issues complained of... more
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my husband and myself flew from manchester for two weeks holiday on the island star the itinery was latin carribean . after the long flight we just wanted to get on board the ship what a dissapointment the ship was well past its sell buy date, as other people have said... more