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Independence of the Seas Cruise Review to Caribbean - Western

ChiroBob

Contributor Level: Purser

Cruises: 7+ cruises

Review: 1

Helpful Votes: 17

Overall rating:

3 out of 5

Verified Review

4 Night Western Caribbean (Ft. Lauderdale Roundtrip)

Sail date: February 16, 2017

Ship: Independence of the Seas

Cabin type: Balcony

Cabin number: 8354

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 7 years ago

Review summary

Favorite:

•The ship with its atrium style is spectacular.

•Our balcony room was spacious with equally spacious balcony

• Crew were ALLL wonderful and they work their butts off [While we always prepay our tips, we ALWAYS throw then more, because they deserve it!]

Needs Work:

•Chef's Table: They use a space in the dining room so very difficult to hear the course 7 wine explanations. We have participated on other cruise line Chef's Table; we are are newly met friend, who said they ALAYS do the Chef's Table and rated this as the lowest, as did my wife and I.

•Carnival Cruise offers small wash / dry with and free iron / ironing board area to touch up clothes in a quick manner. On Royal Caribbean, you have to give to your cabin steward in the morning for use that evening.

* Royal Caribbean has hot dogs and NO sauerkraut.

* I love having a comedy act every night on Carnival, NOT on RC.

• We like going to the special restaurants and have no problem paying the extra fee. On RC, their steakhouse bills the extra PLUS has another extra if you want certain items. [I have NEVER seen that in the special restaurants, only in the main dining room] They do NOT do that in the Italian restaurant.