One of the worse Cruise experience with Royal Caribbean

Navigator of the Seas Cruise Review to Caribbean - Western

Cruises: 4-6 cruises
Review: 1
Helpful Votes: 15

Overall rating:

1 out of 5
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Navigator of the Seas

4 Night Western Caribbean Getaway (Ft. Lauderdale Roundtrip)

Sail date: November 10, 2015

Ship: Navigator of the Seas

Cabin type: Inside

Cabin number: 1601

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 9 years ago

Review summary

We stood in line for 4 hours at the terminal since they had no electricity. Rest of the port had electricity, clear sky, no inclement weather. Apparently Royal Caribbean was not prepared for the outage, they did not have back up generators, so everybody was standing around in Dark, with no AC. Finally when they got the generators, they could only power some bulbs at the counter and run the scanning machines to scan luggage, when we got to the counter they did not have our information and took manual credit card information, which was never transferred to the ship, we found out like hundreds of others  when ordering beverage in the dining room that evening, so we all had to stand in another line at guest relations for an hour and half to give our credit card so we can make purchases on the ship. Getting off the ship was the same disaster, 3 hours to get off the ship, this time they did not have enough staff to manage the crowd. They stop serving breakfast at 8:30, pushing everyone to make the line to get off the ship, with so many people and issues with credit cards still going, they kept sending people from the exit to Guest relations since their cards were not processed, Royal Caribbean lost the credit card information for hundreds of people. Everyone was complaining as people had flights to catch. On the cruise experience was not so great either. The beds in state room are hard and pillows are so thin your neck will hurt the next morning, that is their way to get you to spend money on messages on the ship. Our Toilet leaked and we had toilet water in the bathroom, maintenance crew was nice to clean it up quickly but it smelled and leaked again the next day. They are pushing you to dine at their charge restaurants, every day they had people outside the dining room trying to  sell you to dine at the paid restaurant ,so they give you mediocre food in the dining room, same dessert and appetizer for 4 days, main course was also not so different, we were fortunate to have a really nice waiter who got us Indian food each day that my wife and I loved, that was the best experience on this cruise. We are Gold members who have cruised with Royal Caribbean before and we used to like it, not after this experience, and as consolation Royal Caribbean offered us 10% off next cruise within a year or a $10 Bottle of Wine, how cheap. 

 

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

5 out of 5
Our server Julian and Bonny were so great that they offered us Indian food that was arranged by dining room mananger Loyd Fernandez, they were Awesome!!!!

Entertainment

5 out of 5

Children's Programs

3 out of 5

Service and Staff

5 out of 5
Server Julian, Bonny and dining room manager Loyd Fernandez were Superb, they arranged for me and my wife Indian Food to our taste each night since we did not like the mediocre menu items.

Cabin / Stateroom

1 out of 5
Cabin attendant was Really nice. Cabin was horrible, toilet leaked and we had toilet bowl water on the bathroom floor. Even after they fixed it, it leaked again the next day. State room bed was really hard and pillows were so thin that my neck hurt each day. We could not sleep well on any of the nights.

Ship tip

Ask for the vegetarian food or Indian food if you want to taste good food on the ship.

Ports of call

Ft. Lauderdale (Port Everglades), Florida

5 out of 5

Cozumel, Mexico

5 out of 5

Traveler Photos

Lines on the ship at time of off boarding, this was after 2.5 hours of wait Lines in the dark at the onboarding time Made by Randy, our state room attendant
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6 Comments

ponzi    8 years ago

10 percent off based on this cheap 4day comes out to about 40 dollars, was on line for 5 hrs, did not get on till after 5. RC is a cheap as company.

Ketelonequeen    9 years ago

Not Royal Caribbeans fault the port had no power. We were on the same cruise and also waited at the port to board.

beautiful79    9 years ago

FriendlyCruiser    9 years ago

What was the cruise date?

beautiful79    9 years ago

I was there also and experienced the same exact thing. I took my 10% and ran with it and booked my next cruise with harmony of the seas.

nsbilson    9 years ago

Did you board in Ft lauderdale?

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