Loved the ship! Beware the Santorini tour option!

Item: Odyssey of the Seas
Rating: 4.2
Author: moniquecassidy

Odyssey of the Seas Cruise Review to Europe - Mediterranean

moniquecassidy

Contributor Level: Purser

Cruises: 4-6 cruises

Review: 1

Helpful Votes: 8

Overall rating:

4.2 out of 5

6 Night Greek Isles (Rome Roundtrip)

Sail date: July 04, 2022

Ship: Odyssey of the Seas

Traveled as: Family (older children)

Reviewed: 1 year ago

Review summary

We highly recommend Odyssey of the Seas for families of all ages!

Embarkation

5 out of 5

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

5 out of 5

Onboard Activities

5 out of 5

Entertainment

3 out of 5

Service and Staff

5 out of 5

Our scheduled dining experience was amazing!!! The food was incredible. The staff amazing and entertaining. Rico and Mary-Grace performed magic tricks to keep our teens entertained and laughing. Bravo!!

Ship Quality

5 out of 5

Cabin / Stateroom

4 out of 5

Ports of call

Civitavecchia (Rome), Italy

5 out of 5

Santorini, Greece

1 out of 5

Please learn from our mistakes! There is simply not enough scheduled time to relax and properly do the tour entitled "The Island of Santorini and Oia Village" excursion based on our recent experience with our family and tour group that we booked while on Royal Caribbean's Odyssey of the Seas. We were so rushed the ENTIRE time, and our tour guide Maria told us numerous times she was going to leave people behind. First of all, our actual tour was 1.5 hours less than promised!! Our tour guide named shamefully abandoned us at our tour's first stop to drink free wine before her group was even disembarked from the bus. She also left several passengers behind in Fira due to her giving inaccurate bus location meet-up details (at what cab costs and stress to get back to the ship before departure, I can't even imagine!). We only ended up having 30 to 40 mins. to explore the most beautiful areas of Santorini (Fira and Oia). When we asked why all the rush, she responded in an incoherent way. Please don't be left heartbroken like us due to their inability to communicate and schedule routine tour stops. This tour made us feel like the "Amazing Race Greece", where some people will not complete the tour... and for those who will... you had better RUN!

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Mykonos, Greece

4 out of 5

We had an incredible experience on our tour to Elia beach. We had a lovely regional tour guide. He was so amazing, that he went above and beyond asking every passenger if they had left behind any items at the end of the tour.

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Naples, Italy

4 out of 5

Disembarkation

5 out of 5

5 Comments

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No what I expected