Navigator of the Seas Cruise Reviews - Reviews

The staff on Royal Caribbean has always been great, this and past cruises.

The food is fantastic with a variety of choices.

Not a lot of activity on the pool deck. There was a big screen TV.

The pool deck needs more tables and chairs. Voyager and Rhapsody had plenty.

There was no coffee or tea on the pool deck when the Windjammer closed at 9 pm. Rhapsody had a coffee and hot tea 24 hours.

A Juke Box on the pool deck would be nice. Everyone I talked to agreed.

Overall the cruise was a pleasant.

This cruise was beyond what I was expecting after reading some of the reviews before sailing. Everyone on board made us feel like royalty and no we weren't in a royal suite just a balcony E1. Our room was always clean and freshened and our ice bucket filled, the only room complaint was no lounge chair on the balcony. Our evening meals were always in the MDR because we LOVED our attendants, Gerry, Vipin and David, and the food kicked some pretty Royal behind also. Our breakfast was in the Windjammer because Maykel was there, he was wonderful and again only 1 complaint on the food, the oatmeal was thin, but loved being able to have salmon and cream cheese. The entertainment director Thomas was great, he made it a point to bring my son who is special needs into the events, taking pictures with him and never forgot Shawn's name.  We are already planning out trip on this beautiful ship for next year and hope to get the same wonderful crew again!!!!!!!

The cruise was great the staff and shows were excellent. We slep alot as we always do on a cruise and that is one of our favorite things about it but our bed sucked. That is the only thing that SUCKED and unfortunately that is a biggie. The staff did all they could to try to pad it up but the mattress or lack thereof was just to bad. They newly remodeled this ship and it was beautiful and we will go again but I told my wife in all sincerity we are going to bring a blow up bed with us and just leave it on board after the cruise. Very nice and us and our friends did enjoy it.

The over sized ship, the totel lack of passenger care, every thing about this trip was to get as much money out of you as they could. Such as the auto TIP program for 175.00 $ for two for seven days

I have made 3 cruises with RCL, and this is my last!

Always relaxing and an adventure!  Missed the ice and fruit sculptures.  Wait staff seemed slower than past cruised.  Missed not having the dinner song with the wait staff coming down the stairs on the last night.  Great massage but didnt like the 10 sales pitch on over priced products at the end with a forced 18 percent gratuity charge when i did that before we cruised.  I should have gone to the service desk.

I think I already sent in my rating, but I'll send another one. We look forward to another cruise on the

Navigator of the Seas. We had a great time. Thanks for being # 1 with us. The service was the best.

We were waited on each day and  we got to meet such nice people

June Granger and daughter.

It was a great time, we enjoyed everything.   the food was fantastic, the service great, we had a tour of the city of Routaan Hondorus and some beaches, it was okay.  In Belize we did the River tour and visited the Mayan Ruins, it was great, we really enjoyed the river trip.  In Cosumel, we enjoyed shopping and took a van to a nice beach,The Playa Palancas and some in our party did some snorkeling, it was delightful.  We enjoyed the entertainment especially the ice show.  We loved our room attendant, she kept our room nice and clean and we enjoyed the towel animals. 

It was an unbelievable trip.

hi, we did this cruise Sept 21-28 to Honduras, Belize, Cozumel with a group of friends.  There was 4 families..each having 2 kids.  We are all in our early-mid 30's and all the kids are ages 8-15.  This is our 4th cruise--1st with RCCL.

CONS::The TV channel in the room giving ship info to shows, ports, etc as well as the announcements over the speaker all lacked the fact that for some things you have to go to guest services to obtain a "ticket".  So we missed the ice shows, late for our Belize excursion and the last "ticket" needed was to disembark which was never looked at when we were called so it was useless to spend the time to obtain it to begin with.  My husband got food poisoning and was sick the first 2.5 days.  There is only 1 show a night and not even one offered every night.  Live band is horrible and rarely plays.  When the band was not playing it was more commercial type things than actual music.. and if it was music it was not anything known or upbeat "cruise" music.  Big screen out by pool during day was random videos that did not even play the sound or co-inside with the music playing.  Staff was not outgoing with the exception to the 2 waiters we had in the dining room.  Cups in buffet areas were sometimes dirty, had to even walk up to staff standing around and take the rag to go clean our own table off.  Beds were so hard i had to get 2 extra blankets and a mattress pad to put down just so my ribs were not raw. We stayed on deck 6 (fwd) and the hall always smelled like a dirty kitty litter box.  there were also some other areas that i actually was looking around for a dog on the boat as it smelled like it just crapped on the floors or something!!  Room attendant was not refilling the soap dispenser in the shower, actually had to tear the front of the unit off and put it on the sink as a "friendly" reminder!  Drinks..... we did not purchase a "drink package" although the other 3 families did.  We bought a few daily and only after the cruise was almost over did we find out from another cruiser that a few of the "daily" drinks that we purchased were to come with a souvenir cup/glass for free.... we were never offered these but paid FULL price for them!  There is more but i will stop here.....

PROS:  the wave rider.  (staff not so happy, but this is a neat, fun, exciting thing on this boat that i have never seen),  getting on boat took 30min ! YIPPIE! getting off boat 1hr from time we left our room and we carried off all luggage.  Wait staff, as mentioned before, in our Sapphire dining room was excellent.  Best PRO was GETTING OFF THE BOAT--- for excursions and this is sad but this is also the first time we were looking forward to the END of our vacation and going home!  :'(

Needless to say... we arrived home Sunday afternoon and by Tues we booked a "redo" vacation on the CARNIVAL lines as we have always taken.  We will not take another RCCL boat again.  

A careless porter of Royal Caribbean dropped a dolly load of suitcases onto my wife's back and cracked her big toe.

That ruined our seven days aboard. The least we expected was for Royal Caribbean to offer us a complementary  cruise at a later time----- but they awarded us "Emerald" status !

This trip was so great for my husband and I.  This is an older and smaller ship but the wonderful staff makes up for it greatly.  I would love if the casinos would ban smoking, as I did not get to enjoy that portion.

The week on the Navigator of the Seas was truly a vacation.  The service was top notch.  Some of the onboard activities were amazingly well done.  However I thought there would be more options, so my only disappointment was with the limited entertainment.  The facilities were amazing  - very clean and the boarding and exiting the ship was as organized as it could be for accommodating 4 thousand people.  The food was delicious - my only complaint there is that the juices seem watered down - but they have a lot of selection and adequate seating.  Our stateroom was clean and well kept -  however the free onboard television channels are very limited - unless you want to pay to view - you are not going to find much entertainment value watching television.  Overall the cruise was very enjoyable.

Previously, we cruised with Carnival and thought the atmosphere of all the carnival activities was a bit much BUT the food and the service in the restaurants was fabulous. In contrast to Royal Caribbean's food quality and service and the attitude of some of the servers was very disappointing. We were told that IF we had chosen the early dinner time, our food would have been better. That information came from the Maitre 'd in our section of the restaurant. There was never a meal that we didn't have to send food back to the kitchen. 

Upon boarding the ship, we were left on our own to find our state rooms and this was across the board on ship and even made a joke on stage at entertainment. 

All-in-all, I don't think we will cruise with RC again. 

Great cruise, the ship, the service, the food and entretainment was impecable. highly recommended.

the time spent on islands was very adecuate with enough time to do several things and enjoy the city.

We have sailed RC many times and have been on sister ship Voyager of the Seas, before, knew what to expect, and were not disappointed.  Navigator has been recently refurbished and it is even more beautiful. We had an outside balcony and that made it awesome. The entertainment was very good, the food great and the service as good as always. Would recommend this ship to anyone.

Embarking and disembarking. always a pain, was longer and more difficult than previous occasions but this is due to Galveston not having the kind of boarding facilities one finds in Miami or Fort Lauderdale.

On the other hand, the sailing location resulted in the great majority of the passengers being Texans (we are from the East Coast) and we found Texans were the most fun passenger group of any other cruise we have ever been. Down to earth, friendly and approachable.

we love the experience we had on our with royal carribbean NAVIGATOR OF THE SEA everyone one on the ship was very helpful and friendly , we will cruise again as soon as probably with  royal caribbean

The cruise ship itself and the entertainment on it was fabulous.  Not so keen on the ports we stopped in.  Not much to see in Cozumel or Caymen Island and the stories we heard prior to our cruise about Jamaica, I don't even know why the cruise ships would go into that port.  Royal Caribbean is prettier, and cleaner then a previous cruise ship I have been on. 

Awesome vacation, exceptional service, first class organization. From the time we stepped on the ship we had nothing but the best of service, from the quality of our stateroom to our porter, waiters, entertainment crew, to the ease of organization of the complete cruise. I have been on many cruise lines sailing from the Caribbean and Mediterranean to Mexico an Royal Caribbean Navigator of the Seas was by far the best cruise.

We took this trip with a total of 16 people.  This was our first time on Royal Caribbean and our first time to get a balcony room.  I would recommend a balcony room to everyone. We had previously been in inside rooms, but with the balcony, you can step outside without having to go out of your room.  The entertainment was great on the cruise, especially the Quest and the piano bar. There was always something going on at any given time of the day.

Major disappointment.  Having been of this ship before, I highly recommended Johnny Rockets as a fun lunch experience.  The 4 of us were among the first to enter the restaurant when it opened.  Immediately we were seated and the fun started, but soon turned to disappointment.  After ordering, it took 26 minutes to be served our Milk Shakes - on of us was served the requested Chili Dog - waited another 10 minutes to be served our Cheeseburgers - burgers did NOT have cheese - took another 12 minutes to replace the burgers with cheeseburgers - one of us 4 had finished before the other 3 were served - no on that ordered the Oreo Shake was impressed.  This was the low point of an otherwise great cruise. 

The staff on our cruise was just great.  Our supper table staff was wonderful, the cabin steward was very nice, and just about everyone was extremely friendy and helpful.  Food was good, nice variety and well-served. Everything was very sean and well-maintained.  Our three land tours were most informative.  Someone arranged our rains for nights, except for the downpour at Ahten-Ha. Our "night out" dinner at Chops Grill was perhaps over-rated and too expensive for what we received. The experience in off-loading and getting through c ustoms was terrible and took two hours to stand and move in-line to get out , but I cannot fault the ship for that.  Overall, the cruise was very nice.