Poor food quality, Too many people, NO significant Suite Class Amenities

Item: Independence of the Seas
Rating: 3
Author: duffell

Independence of the Seas Cruise Review to Caribbean - Western

duffell

Contributor Level: Second Mate

Cruises: 7+ cruises

Reviews: 7

Helpful Votes: 112

Overall rating:

3 out of 5

7 Night Western Caribbean (Ft. Lauderdale Roundtrip)

Sail date: November 09, 2019

Ship: Independence of the Seas

Traveled as: Family (young children)

Reviewed: 5 years ago

Review summary

MSC with their amenities and loyalty program recogniition will soon eat RCL's lunch !! Our back to back cruise - MSC to RCL, really highlighted the differences and how much more we could get for our Suite Class room money over RCL. If your booking a cruise you should definately consider MSC . If you are all about good quality production shows, RCL is the way to go,

Embarkation

5 out of 5

no problems

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

2 out of 5

Poor food quality geared towards feeding thousands of people fast

Ben and Jerry's

2 out of 5

too expensive !

Main Dining Room

4 out of 5

Excellent service - overall, poor food quality taste. Nice too look at, not so good on the pallet.

Onboard Activities

2 out of 5

Diamond Club

2 out of 5

Extremely crowed

Entertainment

5 out of 5

RCL does indeed excel at their big production show quality. Good stuff. Secondary shows not that great

Alhambra Theater

5 out of 5

great production shows - others, not so great

Children's Programs

3 out of 5

Just OK

Service and Staff

4 out of 5

Ship Quality

4 out of 5

Cabin / Stateroom

2 out of 5

Grand Suite - not worth the money unless you just need more space. No in or out of room suite amenities which were worth anything much. MSC's Suite Class Yatch club the week before cost us $300 more and we had unlimited drinks, butler, specialty dinning, in room cocktails........... and MSC will recognize/ honor your other cruise line status !!