Nice Getaway - Good Staff - Not totally as expected

Enchantment of the Seas Cruise Review to Caribbean - Bahamas

Cruises: 2-3 cruises
Review: 1
Helpful Votes: 39

Overall rating:

3.9 out of 5
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Enchantment of the Seas

3 Night Bahamas (Port Canaveral Roundtrip)

Sail date: March 08, 2019

Ship: Enchantment of the Seas

Cabin type: Suite

Cabin number: 8562

Traveled as: Family (older children)

Reviewed: 5 years ago

Review summary

Almost all staff were fantastic with service and kindness. We would like to say that our room attendant, Joseph Torralba was absolutely fantastic - the room was always clean and his smile was welcomed. Our servers in the diningroom were absolutely outstanding - the BEST service we have ever received. Igor and Dinesh were outstanding, kind, personable and attentive to all our table needs. We did not like the way the photos were handled at all - it was an archaic system in such modern times - you have an app...put them on the app to view - scan the room card each time. It took an hour to find all the photos to find out that we had to purchase them separately even though our rooms were attached to my son's and I paid for everything - they lost a $250 sale for this terrible system on principle alone just because we were in 2 adjoining staterooms and we couldn't combine our photos. Our entire party of 6 were set up at different tables, a skymiles booking problem - although the problem was eventually handled, it was awful that we had to get management to help us and too a lot of time - we used a travel agent and were disappointed we were somehow not connected. - We have some issues with the charges and Royal Caribbean seems not to be able to help...hmmm...we have to go back to travel agent? - thank you for adjusting the rate to compensate for not going to cocoa cay - sooo sad for us since this was going to be a big family highlight - but since I purchased the entire cruise the credit should have gone on my card, not the incidental cards given...what a mess we have in billing!

Embarkation

5 out of 5
Easy and Fast

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

4 out of 5
Superb food, drink and service in main diningroom. Windjammer food good but super busy - hard to find a table and often it was not clean and ready to go. Only bad part.

Onboard Activities

4 out of 5
Not enough hot tubs - they closed them too often. Pools were cold and small. Ping pong fun. Rock climbing closed a lot due to wind so we didn't do it. Music was great. Movies were ok. Hated not having much in room TV for late night or morning. Shows were FANTASTIC - we went to 4 of them. Latin dancing fun, but would have been better had a staff member led some dances or taught simple steps.

Entertainment

5 out of 5
FANTASTIC

Service and Staff

4 out of 5
Diningroom Staff SUPERB Room Attendant OUTSTANDING Our group was not linked in the diningroom for some reason and it took an exorbitant amount of time trying to get it fixed. The matre' d was great, but the hostess not so friendly. PHOTOs were great - viewing & purchase experience was deplorable!

Ship Quality

4 out of 5
Many Central Common area couches were old and dirty. Otherwise, we enjoyed everything.

Cabin / Stateroom

4 out of 5
Love the size, wish we didn't have the pole, but we worked with it. Also needed to run an extension cord across the room for CPAP which was weird, but made it work. Loved we could connect our rooms with our son, but sad we couldn't adjoin the balconies.

Ship tip

Staff was outstanding. There will be some rust on the outside and some of the common area furniture looked dirty.

Ports of call

Port Canaveral, Florida

5 out of 5
We live near here - we like the area :o)

Nassau, Bahamas

3 out of 5
Expensive to go off the ship. We've been there before, nothing unique or creative.

Freeport, Grand Bahama Island

2 out of 5
Port itself was clean and shopping directly off boat was fun. Beach resort was beautiful but don't even venture 100 yards down the beach or they will try to sell you drugs. It is a run down unsafe island.

Disembarkation

5 out of 5
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