Mother /daughter trip

Item: Adventure of the Seas
Rating: 2.3
Author: andrealc

Adventure of the Seas Cruise Review to Caribbean - Southern

andrealc

Contributor Level: Purser

Cruises: 2-3 cruises

Review: 1

Helpful Votes: 6

Overall rating:

2.3 out of 5

8 Night Southern Caribbean (Ft. Lauderdale Roundtrip)

Sail date: December 07, 2019

Ship: Adventure of the Seas

Traveled as: Family (older children)

Reviewed: 4 years ago

Review summary

This was our 3rd cruise . By far the worst food and most dated ship. Definitely not worth the cost.

Embarkation

2 out of 5

Smooth sailing so far

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

1 out of 5

Had to buy diner packages at the specialty restaurants because the food in the main dining room was inedible. The presentation was good , but the quality was awful. The buffet was decent. enough.

Onboard Activities

2 out of 5

Most of the activities involved a sales pitch

Entertainment

3 out of 5

Saw 2 comedians that were good , and the activities director ran a few fun activities. Many nights the shows were lame

Children's Programs

Traveling with adult daughter

Service and Staff

2 out of 5

Staff and service were good

Ship Quality

2 out of 5

Cabin / Stateroom

3 out of 5

Room steward was great, room was a little musty and dated

Ship tip

Good luck

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Ports of call

Ft. Lauderdale (Port Everglades), Florida

2 out of 5

Embarking went very smooth Disembarking was very disorganized. Ship staff seemed to get their part done pretty well, but Port employees were yelling at everyone and had poor communication with each other

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Willemstad, Curacao

2 out of 5

Lovely island, used private taxi to see the sights after walking around the main town

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Kralendijk, Bonaire

2 out of 5

Very nice island went on excursion through viator with local father/son guide

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Oranjestad, Aruba

5 out of 5

Had relaxing day on the palm beach. Rented chairs and umbrella at one of the hotels

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Disembarkation

1 out of 5

Insane. One star is generous. Ship staff was great , port staff had no clue

8 Comments

Fiesta83 4 years ago

Better luck next cruise

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Ricdalek 4 years ago

Was on sailing right before yours. Ship isn't rundown, MDR food was fine, I couldn't call it inedible. If you get breakfast, disembark by your tag number and use the porter's, your disembark experience would have been better. But I do agree Terminal 29 at Ft. Lauderdale isn't the best.

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Gmanron1 4 years ago

Sounds like a fake review. 95% of previous reviews give the ship 4 or 5 stars. Don’t believe a word you wrote. If you are that hard to please maybe you should remain on a Disney type of vacation.

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jilesgulf 4 years ago

If the service & staff were great, why only 2 stars?

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rmwhiteky 4 years ago

We are sailing on AOS in 2 weeks. We sailed on this ship in April and loved it. We are looking forward to our Jan. 12 return cruise.

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Sunflower90 4 years ago

Yikes! Cruised AOS Christmas 2018. Was one of the best cruises. The ship overall was clean and in good shape. I hope your next cruise is better.

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DerekMire 4 years ago

Yep

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CruzeFan 4 years ago

It sounds like cruising may not be for you. We were on the same ship on the same itinerary last month and did not encounter any of the things that you mentioned. We did not see anything that looked rundown or outdated, the food in the dining room and the buffets were excellent as far as quality and selection, we enjoyed most of the entertainment and found more things to do than we could fit in during the cruise. Debarkation was the smoothest and fastest we have done. We did self debarkation, carried our own luggage, left our cabin at 6:30 AM and we’re through customs with no wait and at the airport by 7 AM.

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Other reviews of this sailing

I thought it could have been better

Very nice trip

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