Very exciting ship

Cruises: 1 cruise (first)

Review: 1

Helpful Votes: 5

Review summary

We had a lovely time despite me getting terrible sea sickness my first day which lingered through the rest of the trip even with medication. This was my first cruise so I wasn’t sure what to expect, but the ship was so beautiful with so much to do and so much to eat! Dom and Nick from the activity staff are so much fun. I work with seniors and despise bingo but they made me want to play like 4 times lol so that says a lot. The comedians were amazing as well, we saw them 3 times. The ice skating show was incredibly impressive. The stunts they were able to do on such a small rink was unimaginable. It was awesome that we could skate on it too even though the ice was pretty rough by the time we got on it. We caught the Come fly with me show which was great as well even though I didn’t quite understand the storyline. My husband enjoyed the outdoor movies, I felt seasick when I was on that part of the ship so I didn’t partake. I wish there were more tv channels or at least an all dreamworks movie channel! After seeing the characters all around the ship, I was dying to watch Trolls or Madagascar! Meeting Branch and Poppy was a big highlight of our trip though!! The food was great. We ate most of our meals in the windjammer cafe. You can’t beat the selection and how fresh and hot everything was for a buffet. The staff was so attentive and friendly in there even when it was a mad house. We ate at American Icon once but felt our service was kinda subpar and I felt seasick in that room so we didn’t do another meal there. The food was good there though. I loved the beach salt water pool so much. I spent a lot of time in there especially at night when it was quiet. I liked that that pool stayed open until 11pm especially since floating in the pool helped me adjust to being on a ship and eased my sea sickness. I enjoyed that there was drink service right at the pool as well... makes up for there not being a swim up bar (I imagine that would be difficult to have on rougher waters). I was disappointed about a few things though. I was so excited to have towel animals done in our room but every day we didn’t get one so I figured Royal Caribbean didn’t do that but then on night 6 we overheard people in the elevator talking about what animals they got each night. It seems like a small thing but I was really sad and felt left out about it. So I said something and got swans for our last night at least lol. I didn’t think that was something you had to request.... Also, this was our honeymoon and the cruise line was aware of this when we booked but we didn’t get any special decorations or acknowledgments like we saw on other rooms who had signs from royal Caribbean for their birthday or anniversary. We wished they made us feel a little more special. And lastly we decided since it was our honeymoon that we were going to splurge at the spa. We got 3 premium treatments each and the treatments were fantastic however the relaxation ended immediately after each treatment because the staff there are so pushy to sell the expensive products they used and made me feel very uncomfortable. Every single session this happened all with different staff members. My husband said it happened to him too, and he can’t say no so he bought some of it. It’s a very vulnerable spot to be in after someone spent over an hour working on your body and make you feel like you have to buy their overpriced products after you just spent a lot on their overpriced spa packages. Overall though I really enjoyed the cruise. I probably will not come back due to the sea sickness but will definitely recommend this ship to my friends and family. I’ll just tell them to avoid the spa and call ahead of time to make sure you get a towel monkey hanging in your state room.

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Ports of call

Port Canaveral, Florida

Labadee (Cruise Line Private Island)

Falmouth, Jamaica

Cozumel, Mexico

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