Food is terrible - Everything is watered down

Item: Oasis of the Seas
Rating: 3
Author: khoipsu

Oasis of the Seas Cruise Review to Europe - Western Mediterranean

khoipsu

Contributor Level: Purser

Cruises: 7+ cruises

Review: 1

Helpful Votes: 8

Overall rating:

3 out of 5

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7 Night Spain France & Italy (Barcelona Roundtrip)

Sail date: August 11, 2024

Ship: Oasis of the Seas

Cabin type: Balcony

Cabin number: 12603

Traveled as: Large Group

Reviewed: 2 months ago

Review summary

The services and entertainment are excellent. The food was bad compares to the same ship on a different cruising route, i.e. Caribbean. Everything is watered down or diluted. They can't even do the salad bar right. The ranch and blue cheese dressings were totally tasteless. The Taco bar was horrendous. Everything there was so bland and the sour cream was so watery. It was very difficult to obtain fresh squeeze orange juice for breakfast even with packaged drinks. The dining room food was mediocre at best. Sometimes the buffet food was better.

Embarkation

3 out of 5

Nothing special about Barcelona Port. average in appearance.

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

1 out of 5

The food on this specific ship and this route is absolutely mediocre to terrible compares to the food on a different route , i.e. Caribbean. The drinks are watered down.

Onboard Activities

3 out of 5

Entertainment

5 out of 5

Service and Staff

5 out of 5

Ship Quality

5 out of 5

Cabin / Stateroom

5 out of 5

Ship tip

If you like rushing through the excursions, then sign up for the European cruises. They even charge you for buses going from the port out to the terminal.

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Ports of call

Barcelona, Spain

3 out of 5

Palma De Mallorca, Balearic Islands

1 out of 5

Charge each person 30 Euro to get drop off 5 km in town - Palma De Mallorca.

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Marseille (Provence), France

1 out of 5

Notre-Dame de la Garde is worth seeing. Fontaine du Palais Longchamp was a joke of a place. Looks good in pictures. There was hardly any grass when we visited in August. All weeds. What an embarrassment to the city. Definitely not well maintained and underfunded.

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La Spezia, Italy

1 out of 5

Nothing really special for a bunch of beach towns. Overcrowded and the restaurant services are very poor.

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Civitavecchia (Rome), Italy

1 out of 5

There is nothing to see in Civitavecchia. It is not Rome so why put Rome in parenthesis? Rom is an hour train ride away from the dam port. They charge you 6 Euro to bus a person out to the main terminal. It costs only 5 Euro for an hour train ride to Rome. This is a common them - charging to take passengers to the terminal from where the ship docks.

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Naples, Italy

3 out of 5

Disembarkation

1 out of 5

They gave us different luggage tags located at different pickup terminals for the same family in two adjacent rooms. Hello Genius!!!!

6 Comments

Cruisersenior 2 months ago

It’s true quality of the free food often on Royal Caribbean has gone down considerably over the years. And it’s such a disappointment.

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cruising2004 2 months ago

Sorry you were disappointed with your cruise.

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Gwbigdog 2 months ago

Thanks for sharing

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HeavySeas 2 months ago

Thanks for sharing your cruise experience

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RoyalCruzer 2 months ago

Very miserable.

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MrsHFQ 2 months ago

I’m sorry you were disappointed with the food and the ports. We are really looking forward to the ports when we board the Oasis in a couple of weeks time. I was surprised at how much you paid for the shuttle in Palma - the Cruise Compass has it down as 10 euros per person round trip.

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