The Allure is looking very tired and the food is meh this time

Port Canaveral is efficient and easy to get to. The embarkation experience has always been smooth with RCCL.

I was shocked at the lack of options at the Windjammer, the main dining room (where we ate every night) took forever and our food was cold. I missed the option of the "regulars" like prime rib if you didn't like the evening's options. I know they've redone the menu to include a few repeats like the grilled chicken, but that's a really boring option. The Mexican quick service restaurant's meat was cafeteria quality and we regretted waiting in line to eat there. I didn't like that the Solarium now allows kids into the food area-nothing like hearing crying babies as you're sitting in the Solarium trying to chill out. I also didn't like how the restaurant in the Solarium isn't open for as long as it used to be. I brought my friend with me and she's used to Disney cruise level quality food, and I was embarrassed. When we cruised together last year on the RCCL Mariner, the food was fine and the dining service was efficient and hot, I don't know what's up with the Allure's food but wow, it was consistently not good at all and definitely not up to the par of the other RCCL ships.

The Quest was cancelled, the Battle of the Sexes was cancelled, formal night had turned into Caribbean night, and it was because there was a dance competition onboard which affected many of the things we've grown to love and expect onboard. This would be fine if you had TOLD US WHEN BOOKING. If we'd known, we'd have chosen a different cruise because we REALLY love those things! We paid for pickleball lessons, and the lesson started 30 minutes late because the courts were wet. The instructors said they had asked housekeeping to dry it but nobody showed up, so the instructors had to do it, and they didn't start until 7:30, which was when the lesson started. Then we got kicked off at 9 am for open play, so 30% of our lesson was spent watching them towel dry the court until one guy with a dryer showed up and walked through our lessons for another 30 minutes. Not cool. Also, the instructors asked us each our names, then proceeded to never use them again, lol. I ended up slipping and falling on a wet spot on the court when we were playing. I was fine, it was just embarrassing to do that in front of everyone.

Every single show was absolutely amazing, and we saw them all! Mamma Mia, Aqua show, Blades, and the comedy show, all top notch and they were the highlight of our cruise. Loved that we could hear music every where we went, except for maybe the loud band right outside the solarium the first day. The Solarium also played pop music at a high level constantly, which is totally different from what the Oasis used to do-it was impossible to focus on a book when you're being Rick Rolled at 9 am. Please bring back the spa music to the Solarium! Please keep kids completely away from the Solarium! It's our sanctuary when we need to decompress from all the noise onboard.

girls' trip, no kids.

Room steward asked us what time we wanted our rooms cleaned, we said 9-11 window worked for us. Room was never cleaned in that window, and we never got a towel animal. Which we didn't expect until the cruise director asked us if we were enjoying our towel animals and we were like, um, what towel animals? I have a certain level of expectation from RCCL staff-it's not Disney level, but it should be consistent and competent. When I asked guest services where the clock tower was to debark (we had purchased the Key and had a different exit) he sent us over to the general exit line which was HUGELY long. We got back out of line and went looking for the Key sign and finally found it. He should have known where the Key exit was. Our dinner servers were fine, but there was about a 15 minute gap between when our course was cleared and when the next one showed up. It also took about 30 minutes for the first course to arrive on some nights. There was a woman in the main dining room going around asking how everything was, and we wanted to say "um we've been here for a LONG time and there's no food in front of us", but she could obviously see that, so we didn't say anything because we didn't think it would help. I don't know if it was our servers or the kitchen. Probably the most unforgiveable gaffe was the Key breakfast-I asked for a cup of tea and it took FOREVER, it arrived with the food long after everyone else had enjoyed their coffee. But that wasn't the worst part-it was decaf tea, and I didn't realize it until we were driving home and I'm like, why do I feel so tired?!? Had to stop at Starbucks and get some caffeine in me because that was a long drive home. It was really obvious that's what the problem was once I did, and I was so bummed that the dining staff was so careless about something like that, especially when it was a Key breakfast. I asked staff why the Quest had been cancelled, and they said it was because of the dance show being held onboard, which made no sense because the dance show was in the amber theater during the day and the Quest is in Studio B late at night after the ice show. And they were irritated that I'd asked them, which I felt bad about, but we love the quest.

The Allure was clean, but she was faded. Almost every surface really needed to be repainted, rechromed, or waxed. I remember the Oasis absolutely sparking when we sailed on her in 2015, and I expected that from the Allure and I was disappointed. The interior facing balconies in Central Park were kind of beat up looking, which made Central Park not as beautiful as it was on the Oasis.

Some metal parts in the room were corroded, like the decorative band on the wall as you walk in to the left. The panel on the left hand side of the balcony was loose and rattled all night until we jammed some paper in it to quiet it down. Not enough plugs and no plugs near one side of the bed. The shelf above the tv was dusty.

Very efficient, no issues.