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Allure of the Seas Cruise Review to Caribbean - Eastern
7 Night Eastern Caribbean (Ft. Lauderdale Roundtrip)
Sail date: March 26, 2017
Ship: Allure of the Seas
Cabin type: Inside
Traveled as: Family (young children)
Reviewed: 7 years ago
Review summary
Sadly we didn't enjoy the cruise as much as I thought we would. It really started off on the wrong foot with getting on the boat taking about 2 1/2 hours because their computers went down and then we
were a assisted by a new employee. As soon as you got onto the boat you were bombarded by all of their sales people. We found the boat to be extremely crowded. People were getting to the pool by 7:30 AM to save chairs! Everywhere we seemed to be you were in a crowd. We also disliked that the ship was overran by teenagers. Having a six and an eight-year-old it would've been nice to spend time with them in the hot tub or to play ping-pong with them without having teenagers taking over.
I love to cook but was excited to have a week off, we quickly learned their quality of food was not what we hoped for. The meat was just odd. They made it seem like there were lots of places to eat but really it was all the same food served at different places. We thought we would get some relief when we went to the islands but when you have 3 to 5 cruise ships all stopping around the same time, a small island becomes very crowded. We even went to a beach that was not on a tour, it as well was shoulder to shoulder. I will say the staff was fantastic and the boat was always being cleaned. It was just not the relaxing vacation we had hoped for. Heck, Disney World with more relaxing. A cruise is definitely not for us.
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Ft. Lauderdale (Port Everglades), Florida