Excellent week on a great ship!! Would go again

Item: Harmony of the Seas
Rating: 4.7
Author: Lovethesea38

Harmony of the Seas Cruise Review

Lovethesea38

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Cruises: 7+ cruises

Reviews: 9

Helpful Votes: 56

Overall rating:

4.7 out of 5

7 Night Western Caribbean (Galveston Roundtrip)

Sail date: November 05, 2023

Ship: Harmony of the Seas

Cabin type: Balcony

Cabin number: 11546

Traveled as: Family (older children)

Reviewed: 6 months ago

Review summary

The best one this year! I love this class of ship! So much to do and see. Excellent relaxing week. Only hit one storm leaving cozamel but it wasn’t as bad on this ship. My favorite ship so far. I do wish royal was better about loyalty. First cruise as emerald and no thanks for moving up a level gift. I want to book another but hope this changes. Overall very happy and the week always goes to fast

Embarkation

5 out of 5

Got to ship early 10:30am was on the ship by 10:45. Had all speciality reservations etc done by 11:15am. Very fast!! My boarding time was 11:30-12

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

5 out of 5

Main Dining Room

4 out of 5

Excellent service from Wendy and our main waiter. Portions seemed smaller but better choices for all kinds of food. Overall it was better then on previous cruises. Speciality gave you bigger portions by far

Park Cafe

4 out of 5

Excellent variety never empty of a selection. If you get in here at the right time you miss the crowd

Jamie's Italian by Jamie Oliver

5 out of 5

This was my favorite tried it on my last ship but better on this one. Waiter explained did well

Chops Grille

4 out of 5

Food was good. Service was good but better at the other 2 out of 3. Excellent overall

Bionic Bar

4 out of 5

Excellent bar can try other non alcohol drinks

150 Central Park

4 out of 5

Excellent service and food. As good as on other ships from prior cruises

Onboard Activities

5 out of 5

Pools, abyss, pickle ball, mini golf, so much to do. If your bored on this ship something is wrong. I didn’t get to do everything I wanted to do.

Entertainment

5 out of 5

Saw the musical grease and loved it. One of the best. The ice show 1887 was good. Columbus was weird but I did like the Jimmy Buffett songs. Overall flow of it was weird. Comedians good. So much to do on the cruise compass.

Service and Staff

5 out of 5

So many nice people. Cassandra our steward was friendly. Wait staff in MDR and speciality all good. Guest services friendly. Officers also very nice. Sports deck staff also good.

Ship Quality

5 out of 5

Cleaning a lot all areas. Very clean well maintained. It’s also the newest ship I’ve been on but I’d go back

Cabin / Stateroom

4 out of 5

Ship tip

Book entertainment 30 days ahead before you board, if you get speciality dinning book dinning times right away. Show up to events early- plays etc. and other events you are interested in.

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Ports of call

Coxen Hole, Roatan, Bay Islands, Honduras

4 out of 5

We did a snorkel excursion. Beautiful waters. Equipment not as new but I’ve done it before. We had good guides and learned a lot. We had a small beach club after but it was cloudy weather.

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Costa Maya (Mahahual), Mexico

4 out of 5

Bike and clear kayak excursion. The bikes were old but it was an experience. We kayaked out to clear Reef then could eat and drink before going back to ship.

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Cozumel, Mexico

5 out of 5

I did a 3 reef snorkel. It’s the best! So many fish! Probably one of my favorite ports to snorkel now.

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Galveston, Texas

5 out of 5

Nice place nice people. We only spend a half a day prior but it was very good. I’d go back.

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Disembarkation

5 out of 5

Got in line early 6:25. Off by 7:25. 6 minutes to get sea pass to customs. This was self assist option With 1:30 flight out of IAH. Galveston express to airport

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