Nice Overall Experience But ....

Cruises: 4-6 cruises

Review: 1

Helpful Votes: 35

Review summary

The boat is very nice.  Service team excellent.  Food in main dining room not consistent, but adequate.  Some great dishes, some not so great dishes, choose wisely and every time we chose the Chef Choices, they were excellent. 

 

The boat has many activities  - Comedy show always good, the Grease Show was well done.  The best we thought was the Evening Water Show -- great swimming , dancing ... high energy - must see.  It starts a bit slow, but hang in there.

 

Now the issue - 3 out of our 4 family members got the NORO Virus --all at different times covering Mon - Friday.  The family ate together two times as a result.  With 6500 of your closest friends on board, someone is going to get this.. it was just us.  We were very careful on sanitation as well.   Perhaps we were drinking out of the bathroom water faucet -- who knows.   It made the trip 3 stars as a result. 

 

For a 7 day cruise you go to 3 ports -- St. Maartin always nice and well worth any excursion.  Puerto Rico you had to be back on the boat by 1 -- you really could not do much .. I don't consider this a port of call quite frankly.  It didn't matter for me, I was in bed sick.   Labadee is wonderful and we all were able to get off the ship together.. our one day together.  The ONLY annoying thing at Labadee is the locals trying to sell you all the trinkets ... they will not stop trying to lure you into their booths.  It was one royal PITA....  Royal Caribbean needs to curb this a bit.

 

Drink packages - we prob would not do any in hindsight.

 

 

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Entertainment

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Ports of call

Ft. Lauderdale (Port Everglades), Florida

Philipsburg, St. Maarten

San Juan, Puerto Rico

Labadee (Cruise Line Private Island)

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