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Enchantment of the Seas Cruise Review to Caribbean - Bahamas

Cruises: 1 cruise (first)
Review: 1
Helpful Votes: 53

Overall rating:

4 out of 5
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Enchantment of the Seas

Bahamas

Sail date: August 29, 2016

Ship: Enchantment of the Seas

Cabin type: Oceanview

Cabin number: 2062

Traveled as: Singles/Friends

Reviewed: 8 years ago

Review summary

I thoroughly enjoyed the cruise.  The staff was absolutely wonderful. The shows were great, the late night movies were awesome. I would recommend to the trip to others in a heartbeat.  I wished we had more of a variety with the food buffets, same food everyday was kind of boring and the sweets always seemed to lack something.  Pretty desserts but not always great tasting. The one thing that I was truly disappointed with was the bathrooms.  When I went into my bathroom, it did not appear to be clean.  In addition, it always smelled like a port potty.  When I would run water it smelled like sewer.  Didn't want to shower or wash my face with the water.  I did request someone to take a look at it at Guest Services and they sent someone up to take a look at it, however it appeared that the person was unsuccessful in correcting the problem.  Next time I will request they move me to another room.  I was totally dissatisfied with that.  If that happens the next time I will no longer book a cruise, it may be something to do with the fact that we are on water, which can't be rectified, however I don't want to experience it again.

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

3 out of 5
Ok. Same things everyday was quite boring at the buffet. Dining room was awesome and so was the wait staff. Lokhai, Kamel and Don Don were wonderful.

Onboard Activities

3 out of 5
Ok. Not enough. Wished you all had more, but what was there was good.

Entertainment

5 out of 5
The shows were great. Also, really enjoyed the cruise members on deck and in pool area with the dancing. Very lively. Comedy was ok. I laughed enough to go back.

Children's Programs

3 out of 5

Service and Staff

5 out of 5
Luis my room attendant fixed the cleanliness of the bathroom for me and he was awesome, Kamel, Lokhai and DonDon were awesome. Wonderful personalities, always very helpful.

Ship Quality

5 out of 5
Ship was beautiful and clean, every now and then the pool deck would get pretty nasty especially when the weather was extremely windy and rainy. I thought more cleaning staff was needed at that time.

Cabin / Stateroom

3 out of 5
It was ok. Bathroom horrible smell. Didn't know where it was coming from. I expected for them to change linen everyday, but I quickly found out that was not the case. The room was a good size. My bed however was made everyday and Luis left my itinerary for the next day. He was pleasant and polite. Nice people make the not so pleasant better to deal with.

Ship tip

Don't bring your own iron. I was told I would have to rent one once on the ship. So we brought our own, only to have them take it away and for me to pick it up after I got off the ship. Waste of luggage space and time.

Ports of call

Miami, Florida

3 out of 5

Nassau, Bahamas

5 out of 5
Definitely do a tour but do a tour that will give you at least an 2 hrs in Atlantis. The tour we went on was great and informative however, I heard about all that I missed by not being there in enough time. My tour had a 45 min. window. Not enough time.

Cococay (Cruise Line's Private Island)

5 out of 5
Get to beach early and grab a beach chair. if you don't swim grab a floatie it is worth the rental.

Key West

3 out of 5
Walked instead of taking tour, definitely invest in the tour it is worth it. Otherwise you are primarily just shopping.
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2 Comments

13Tolbert    8 years ago

If you had a room in the middle of the ship....remember that the ship was cut in half and extended. Those staterooms 'according to Royal Caribbean staff at headquarters' have plumbing that was added with the expansion that is inadequate and it allows air to escape thus the porta potty smell. We had a Jr Suite for the first time for our Anniversary and it smelled horrible all week .

ramja    8 years ago

You have to remember - the water comes from the ocean and is run through a desalination process to remove the salt. The smell is simply from the sea water. It's perfectly safe.