Ovation of the Seas Cruise Reviews - Reviews

Definitely one of the best cruise experiences I've had. From the reservations made with , to the offboarding process, it was really a joyful experience. I would cruise on Royal Caribbean again and use to book it!

Great ship, excellent staff. Something for everyone on the ship. I'm not a fan of the a) wifi for Android users (our iPhone folks seemed to have better connectivity--Androids had to "forget" the network multiple times per day to login to the Royal app) b) the meats are not impressive at all After the negative is out of the way, there's a LOT of positive to chat about. Solarium was great. Quiet enough and semi-easy to find a space to hang out. Seemed to be a very popular place. Cabins were well maintained and well attended. Staff was exceptional and friendly. It was interesting to chat with staffers when they had a minute about where they were from and such. Ship is HUGE. I had over 9k steps per day just getting around the ship. Not a bad thing but still a little much. Elevators were almost always a wait.

Overall, great cruise. We hit the rainy season so we were all wet even though we prepared. However, the ship, as stated before was wonderful and everyone was very helpful.

We mostly enjoyed it all. There was a LOT of stress getting to the ship - our companion's air travel was delayed, then cancelled (booked through Air2Sea). They ended up having to spend the night in another town, pay for baggage twice and just making it to the ship on time. The ship was nice, lots to do, it rained a lot, but it is Alaska, so was kind of expected.

Nice itinerary. Excursions didn't provide viewing of much wildlife. The scenic views were awesome. Disappointed that we didn't get to see the glaciers.

This was a glacier cruise but we did not get to see the glacier. Captain decided to skip due to weather but did not care to inform the guests who got up at 5.30 am to see the glacier and were waiting for 2 hrs before the crew told us we were already in Juneau and the captain had decided to skip Endicott!!

Most of the staff were great and helpful the shows were wonderful the speciality dinner great food

This is a great cruise for me to get out of the Texsas heat in August.

We are considering booking our next cruise on a different cruiseline.

I will never use or sail Royal Caribbean again. This cruise cost us so much money for a balcony cabin that was 75% obstructed. No one would fix this. I would have been better off with a inside room.

Great shp... really no need to leave it!!! Loved the Solarium with the 270 degree views.

We had a great time on our cruise to Alaska. We would recommend Ovation of the seas.

This was my second cruise on Royal Caribbean. Not having the pre-ordered items (8 months in advance) was ridiculous and inexcusable. Seeing other cabins have towel animals on their bed and we never got one, seeing other people with decorations and blankets when I ordered the same but you ran out??? Poor excuses and made my wife’s 55th Birthday not so great. The ship was booked to capacity and your soda machines kept running out of coke, the bars and I mean several kept running out of pina colada mix, the pad tai with shrimp is not supposed to include the hard crunchy tails, the desserts were so small that you had to take 3-4 to make a normal piece. The bumper cars I was excited about were not in service, the birthday cake was in our room the first night when my wife’s birthday wasn’t until the 5th night and Royal stated they could not deliver the cake on the proper day. The lines at the windjammer were long and you couldn’t get iced tea or lemonade at any of the bars. Water and coke machines should be accessible on every floor since you sell a soda package… quit running out of soda! I am now looking for a new cruise company to spend my money with. Thank you for all the disappointments. This type of trip takes a lot of people several years to save up for. All I can say is Thank god Alaska was so beautiful!

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The only thing I would like see improvement is with Photographers. The quality and customer service has been not up to the mark. The photos weren't that great. I saw fee photographers not paying attention to guest closing eyes and so on.

Our Marriott travel agent should have done a better job booking our group trip, the meal times were all different and she was not helpful with follow-up calls prior to the cruise.

There was a lot to like about this cruise...Now if they could just improve the quality of their food...

This was our first cruise and we were skeptical how it would be with our 4 kids. We read everything we could prior and the best thing was we took Walkie Talkie radios for them to carry around so we would have piece of mind. The Talkies worked great because the internet was touch and go for the app. However after the first few days we felt more free and let our kids enjoy as long as they kept in touch. The hallways were rarely crowded and it was a enjoyable experience. We will diffidently become a cruise family after this trip;

After we got through our initial issues with booking, which ended up being an absolute nightmare. We had booked for 5 in 2 rooms knowing that one might cancel, we paid extra for refundable tickets. When we went to cancel the one, our agent had booked the 3 in to a room that REQUIRED a minimum of 3 people in it, so they had to cancel the entire trip and re-book. Because of that, instead of saving us $1000+ like expected, it was only going to save us $63. So we left the 5th person on as it would save us more as we would get taxes and port fees back for our 5th and they just no-showed. VERY disappointed in that aspect of the trip. After that booking excursions at first was horrible. The one thing we wanted to do was go fishing in Sitka. I watched the excursions daily and there was no fishing, no fishing, no fishing. The next day, there was fishing, but it was sold out. Tried to go through the ship to have a personal one and was told they didn't have any. We ended up going with an outside company and they were FABULOUS. I think the biggest issue on the cruise was the Amway group. They were catered to by the cruise taking up an entire dining hall every night. They booked out the Solarium a couple of times which was also annoying to be kicked out. We could never get in to the Bumper Cars as that was always booked up by them. They were rude, pushed people out of the way, and seemed to b video blogging the entire time which basically used up all the wifi so communication and such on the ship was horrible. The staff was great in general. Got to know our bartenders and they knew our drinks after a few days which was nice. In general, if it hadn't been for the Amway group and the booking issues, the cruise would have been a lot more enjoyable.

Great cruise! Our first time to see Alaska. Jamies Italian restaurant is a cut above all the others. Even the hamburger looked awesome! Highly recommend!