Poor Main Dining Room Service

Item: Navigator of the Seas
Rating: 3
Author: kaiweb

Navigator of the Seas Cruise Review to Caribbean - Southern

kaiweb

Contributor Level: Second Mate

Cruises: 7+ cruises

Reviews: 4

Helpful Votes: 24

Overall rating:

3 out of 5

9 Night Southern Caribbean (Miami Roundtrip)

Sail date: December 07, 2018

Ship: Navigator of the Seas

Cabin type: Balcony

Cabin number: 7616

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 5 years ago

Review summary

Navigator is an old ship that is going into refurb soon. The crew (except Main DiningRoon) was very good.

Embarkation

2 out of 5

Only one line for all Crown and Anchor members

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

1 out of 5

Worst Main Dining Room service in 13 RCCL cruises. Over two hours fir dinner EVERY day. Wait staff blamed kitchen. Kitchen blames wait staff. Chops Grill was excellent.

Onboard Activities

4 out of 5

Trivia was fun. Cruise Directors staff was very good.

Entertainment

3 out of 5

Average fir a ship this size.

Children's Programs

No kids.

Service and Staff

3 out of 5

Cabin attendant Michael was super. He knew what we needed almost before we did. Dining Room staff was bad.

Ship Quality

3 out of 5

Old ship showing a lot of wear.

Cabin / Stateroom

3 out of 5

Small balcony. Average size cabin.

Ship tip

Don’t expect much.

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Ports of call

Miami, Florida

1 out of 5

Old shabby terminal.

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Labadee (Cruise Line Private Island)

5 out of 5

Fun place.

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Oranjestad, Aruba

4 out of 5

Island tour guide was great.

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Willemstad, Curacao

4 out of 5

Ok tour.

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Kralendijk, Bonaire

4 out of 5

Ok tour.

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Disembarkation

5 out of 5

Very good. Easy off, luggage easy to find. Short walk to bus.

1 Comment

cruzingfamily 5 years ago

The Navigator was our first Royal ship back in 2003! Love that ship!

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Other reviews of this sailing

Beautiful ship and the service was excellent.

Fun Family Cruise

It was a pretty bad experience overall