Vision of the Seas
Sail date: April 22, 2007
Overall the cruise was great. Right from the very beginning I began meeting people while waiting to board the ship. Boarding was much faster then I had expected. It only took a few minutes from the time I arrived at the pier and parked my car. The "Monarch" which is a weekend cruise took approximately an hour or more to get on board. The first night meal had problems. The table that we were originally assigned to would "vibrate" considerably during the entire meal. After speaking with the maitre d, we were moved the next evening to the lower section of the main dinning room which resolved the problem. The selection of meals in the main dinning room was very good and the quality of the meals was the same. There was one meal that several of us ordered and we all agreeded that it was horrible, but that was quickly remedied by the waiter who quickly replaced it with something else from the menu. Formal night - I requested FOUR Lobsters and received FOUR without question.!!! Casino was excellent, dancing in the Viking Lounge was the same. The headline shows in the main theater were good but I found the "crew" shows to be excellent - both singing and dancing. Comedy shows in the Enchanted room were very good also. I was a little disappointed with the band that played up by the pool. They would take breaks when a lot of people would finally get up and start dancing, losing the momentum. Rooms on the ship where what I expected, and our cabin steward did stay on top of things. One thing I will applaude the staff on, was many of them made it a point to learn my name and use it. Overall, I was not disappointed with the ship at all. The public areas where kept clean and periodic maintenance was being done to keep things that way. Finally - departing the ship was like heaven !!!! We were scheduled to depart between 11:00am and 11:30am but our color was called by 9:00am. Within 15 minutes of having our color called to depart we where off the ship and thru customs and headed for the parking lot !!!!!!!!