Grandeur of the Seas Cruise Reviews - Reviews

We called it the Saints' cruise because we visited St. Croix, St. Maarten, St. Lucia, St. Kitts as well as Barbados. We had never taken anything longer than a 7-night cruise and wondered if there would be enough to keep us occupied on six sea days (3 at the beginning, 5 islands, three sea days at the end. It was a great cruise despite the weather on the way there and back. You can't plan on the weather and RC did a great job keeping us safe and occupied.

Just an amazing trip. We had sooooo much fun. It was a beautiful ship.

We're in WV, and wanted to try cruising via driving to port. Baltimore is the closest (3 hours) and we enjoyed our previous RC cruise so we decided to try the Grandeur out to celebrate our 3 year anniversary. We ended up having a 6 sea day cruise due to the storm that was brewing off of the Carolinas (25 ft waves, 40mph winds) the Coast Guard closed Cape Henry and thus we had to anchor in the bay until it reopened. Even when it was reopened, Captain Patrick kept everyone safe and decided to let the storm pass by before continuing our sailing. We sailed through 12ft waves and 20mph winds and could feel it! I loved it and didn't get sick, best sleep I got in a long time actually. We ended up skipping Port Canaveral, and only had about and hour and a half at Nassau (11pm-12:30am), but the lone port day was Coco Cay which was the day of our 3 year anniversary and it was everything we needed. A couple on the ship got married there! My boyfriend actually proposed on the ship, at sunset and it was the end to "a perfect day at Coco Cay." We spent the remaining two sea days relaxing and enjoying our new status as betrothed. We booked a Bermuda cruise on this ship for next year and we're looking forward to it!

We have sailed the Grandeur several times. We go back and forth between Grandeur and Carnival Pride because the Port is so convenient. Weather issue aside, this was a lack luster cruise with okay food and pitiful entertainment They prioritized the one port to be Coco Cay when they had to cancel two ports. It’s all about cross sales and money money money. They can’t make anything off of Nassau or Florida but they sure can take in the bucks on $80 zip lines and water park tubes that they own. They promoted that “perfect day” the entire trip. The guests had started to make fun of the slogan as we had all heard enough Perfect Day at Coco Cay to be sick.

The time of year was not well chosen on our part. We did not take into consideration the change over to standard time. The travel through Chesapeake Bay was done in the dark so all the scenery was missed.

Baltimore departures/arrivals in November can be dicey. This one was cold for 3 days of the cruise going out and coming in. The weather in Nassau & Coco Cay (2 days) was perfect. Balance of the 8 day trip (if you want to call "arrival day" a day of the cruise, that is) was overcast & rain. But hey, that's just part of the deal, right?

We had a great time with all our stops, meeting new people , seeing and learning about different things

Pleasant cruise experience and really can't say enough about Perfect Day at CocoCay! Worth sailing with RCI for that alone!

Perfect Day at Coco Cay saved the day and the entire cruise!

My first cruise experience and I think I've lived and learned!

Nice cruise and would do it again. Just make it 2 days in Coco Cay and no Port Canaveral!

It was our 1st cruise and we loved it and can’t wait to go again! Loved all the great people we met both workers and cruisers!

Great cruise on the “Lady G” sorry she is leaving the fleet but looking forward to the Enchantment of the Seas returning.

Best cruise ever with family. Had lots of fun and met nice people.

We went from Baltimore to Port Canaveral to Miami to Key West to Coco Cay and Nassau in the Bahamas it was lovely

My cruise ship was wonderful an i enjoyed my vacation second time to Bermuda next year different cruise but still with royal Caribbean

Wonderful cruise with delays on each end due to weather. Bermuda was sunny and beautiful. Our cruise had repairs in the Centrum that limited access and seating, but those appear to be finishing up. Heavy seas coming back to Baltimore had dishes falling in the main dining room.

We were emailed and told the ship was late. We arrived at the port at 1:00 and turned away. My family of 4 had nowhere to go so we sat outside at a strip mall w our luggage and prayed it didn't rain. We finally got on and the cruise was wonderful. For an older ship, it was clean and beautiful. Our bar service folks, stateroom attendants and waiters were top notch. Activities on the ship were well run and the director was great. I know it couldn't be helped, but in the centrum main area to hang out, they had construction crews using Jack hammers, saws and power tools every day fixing damage from the previous cruise. Hard to relax with that. I do feel they compensated us well for cruising out several hours late, no complaints. We got an entire day back on the room, drink packages and cancelled excursions. My main issue is I went daily to the front desk explaining we had flights at noon. I always was told no problem. Day 3 we learned we would dock at 10 AM or shortly after arriving very late. I went multiple times to the front desk and they would not even take my name to get us off first. We were put in the dining hall begging anyone we could find to get us to the front of the line. Ship docks and nobody will listen and even get us in the centrum. My wife found a captain of all people and explained our situation. He personally escorted us off the ship w many apologies. It was the most stressful situation I've ever experienced on a ship. I've cruised many times w RC. The communication was horrible and no plan in place for a late arrival relatively small number of guests. We had our kids w us, it was scary. With that said, the cruise itself was wonderful!

We had a good time but this is not the ship for us. It is an older ship and economical but not what we've come to expect from Royal Caribbean. The buffet was not good. The entertainment, very underwhelming. The dining room was awesome and the destination perfect. I need a bigger ship with stabalizers to limit motion of the ocean.

Bermuda was a wonderful trip and I would like to go back someday but perhaps do it in seven days instead of five. There were some outstanding things in this cruise particularly in the Great Gatsby dining room. The food and staff there were superb. The friendliness of the staff was outstanding. My main complaints were over the choices of the food venues and the lack of options available late night. All in all a great cruise.