A disappointment

Item: Anthem of the Seas
Rating: 2.9
Author: RoseanneG

Anthem of the Seas Cruise Review to Caribbean - Eastern

RoseanneG

Contributor Level: Deck Hand

Cruises: 7+ cruises

Review: 1

Helpful Votes: 10

Overall rating:

2.9 out of 5

9 Night Bermuda & Caribbean (Cape Liberty Roundtrip)

Sail date: May 03, 2018

Ship: Anthem of the Seas

Cabin type: Balcony

Cabin number: 7566

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 6 years ago

Review summary

Food and service in the dining room are sub par. Entertainment was boring except for Spectrum. 10 Th cruise we've taken, fourth with RC and2 nod on Anthem. Worse cruise we have ever gone on. They should hire a whole new cruise director and staff. Waited 15 minutes for a server to take our order for dinner. He was about to walk away when I grabbed his arm and told him to take it now. Worse cruise we have ever been on. And they don't really care if I say that!

Embarkation

2 out of 5

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

2 out of 5

Solarium Bistro

5 out of 5

Best place for breakfast. For whatever reason, cruise ships just do not make very good breakfast, however, the staff made sure you had what ever would make you happy. Again, the way cruises use to be.

The Grande

3 out of 5

Food was boring. If you did not have a regular time and table (we did my time dining) you were pretty much ignored. The cruise ships should go back to envelope tipping.

Jamie's Italian

5 out of 5

Very good. We had a wonderful server. Again, worth the extra money.

Chops Grille

5 out of 5

Yum. Worth the extra money. Treat you like what a cruise is suppose to be. Server was attentive and made sure you were pleased with everything.

The Café@TWO70

2 out of 5

Servers keep their back to you until you say "excuse me" then they finally stop talking or turn around annoyed that you interrupted them. Food isn't bad.

Onboard Activities

1 out of 5

Entertainment

1 out of 5

Music Hall

3 out of 5

Two years ago there was something always fun going on in the Music Hall. This time the only thing that was any good was the couple at another table that was having a discussion about what a slob the husband was. Boring!

Service and Staff

3 out of 5

Ship Quality

3 out of 5

Cabin / Stateroom

2 out of 5

Ship tip

Check exactly where your stateroom is. Our room was directly over the lifeboats so the tops of the lifeboats as well as the large white brackets are in all our pictures. Make sure they are upfront with you when booking and paying for a balcony. Don't think that they will help you out, they won't.

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Ports of call

King's Wharf, Bermuda

5 out of 5

Philipsburg, St. Maarten

4 out of 5

San Juan, Puerto Rico

3 out of 5

Labadee (Cruise Line Private Island)

5 out of 5

Disembarkation

2 out of 5

15 Comments

macfin 6 years ago

If your not used to a large ship experience you will come away jaded - and if you really grabbed the waiters arm - shame on you! That is simple assault and could have been an issue that you would have not wanted to deal with - give him a break he works for what 6-8 tables — cut him some slack

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cruisemylife 6 years ago

If you were on may 17th cruise late dinner there was a whole lot to complain about!

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mustang06 6 years ago

Been on Royal Caribbean ships 8 different times and never had all these problems sounds like you expect too much and a little bit of patience goes a long way

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fredpiment 6 years ago

Are you sure you were on the anthem?

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garygoods 6 years ago

Wow hard to believe this is the same ship I just got off. We had a blast. Dining room staff was very friendly and housekeeping was very friendly too. Ship was beautiful and entertainment was excellent. One of them was a bit odd but We will rock you was tremendous. Journey tribute band was awesome. We did not have one night of down time. We enjoyed everything!! For being a big ship it is very well organized for getting on and off and for the ports.

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markschofield 6 years ago

I was on Anthem last year and I thought the dining room service was horrendous. The waiter couldn't even be bothered making conversation with us and kept forgetting to bring what we had ordered. I don't know if it was because we were on a corporate event or not but we ended up eating in the speciality restaurants for the whole cruise because I couldn't stand the food and service in the main dining room. I have to say the bigger ships really suffer from this as it was similar on Harmony the year before. I had an amazing time on Navigator though and got to know our waiters so we'll.. I'm hoping for a repeat of this on Navigator in a few days time!!

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Windjam064 6 years ago

Roseanne, if you have been on 10 cruises why is only 1 listed in your history?

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Duke968 6 years ago

Sounds like you need to change your attitude, happiness comes from within.

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usaveteran 6 years ago

Like the saying goes....”you can please some of the people some of the time....but not all of the people all of the time....just saying...

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jsabina816 6 years ago

I was on Anthem in March. Food was good and our server, Alvira, may have been the BEST i’ve had on my 13 cruises.

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Tawsy 6 years ago

Cannot believe you actually grabbed a waiters arm, I think that is very wrong indeed and could even be assault.

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doctorfager 6 years ago

Very wrong

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doctorfager 6 years ago

Sorry I beg to differ

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qaunde 6 years ago

Me too. We are supposed to go 260 days from now... Not that I'm counting LOL. We had such fun on our last Cruise. The people and the food was great. And I was just so happy to finally be away on vacation with my workaholic husband. Maybe I'll actually get to spend some time with him

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louisjt 6 years ago

Been on this ship last year had a blast food and service was outstanding we actually going again in October I hope it's not like your visit

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Other reviews of this sailing

Beautiful ship. Great crew

The Cruise was okay; not worth the money we paid.

May 3rd - May 12th