This review is written by Amy Blume.
On February 22nd, 2009, Royal Caribbean's 138,000grt Mariner of the Seas made her maiden departure from her new home port of Los Angeles. She arrived in the middle of the night on the 19th having completed a repositioning around Cape Horn. Mariner was the last of five Voyager class ships, her maiden voyage on Novermber 16, 2003. Her arrival to the Los Angeles market is part of the new-to-you campaign that Royal Caribbean have been waging successfully in LA for the last few years as she seems to be quite an advancement over Monarch of the Seas and Vision of the Seas which she replaces. In fact, her itinarary is more Vision than Monarch so the LA short trip passenger is now solely catered for by Carnival down at Long Beach. The day was dark and overcast, not the best for photographing our new resident, but we decided to head down to the port for the occasion anyway, and the rain held off long enough for our harbor cruise aboard Fiesta.
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