AWFUL, AWFUL, TERRIBLE CRUISE

Cruises: 7+ cruises

Review: 1

Helpful Votes: 11

Review summary

The whole cruise was the worst I had ever been on and I have been on many. The food was terrible, there was never anywhere to sit in the buffet restaurant, it closed at 9.00pm, on most cruise ships they are open until 11.00pm. The main restaurant was well below average. The drinks were ridiculously expensive -£14 for a small wine!. There was not enough loungers in the adult only pool - the only place to get away from the feral children - who were not policed by the crew or parents and were left to run riot around the ship- causing misery to everyone, especially at 2am in the morning when they were running around the corridors. The ridiculous amount of sea days - (was this to save on mooring fees)?. This was after all the Med and not Atlantic or the Pacific. This cruises was advertised as a beaches cruise but you had to get back on the ship at 2.30 in the afternoon on many stops - ridiculous. The shows were terrible with the exception of the ice shows. There was no afternoon tea service no midnight buffet - no where to eat if you missed the 9.00 deadline for the buffet. On the whole very poor value for money and a huge disappointment.  Can somebody please explain to me why there is an 18% service charge tax on all purchases, this is an American tax and this ship was sailing out of England, which we do not have in England -outrageous charge.I have been on RCI twice before and this was by far the worst cruise I have ever been on. I will certainly make sure that I inform everyone I know not to go with RCI. We felt that we had been mugged in every way possible.     

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Ports of call

Southampton (London), England

Gibraltar (U.K.)

Villefranche-Sur-Mer, France

Ajaccio, Corsica

Cagliari, Sardinia

Palma De Mallorca, Balearic Islands

Malaga, Spain

Cadiz (Seville), Spain