glenncan9463647
My advice for others is to book excursions, specialty dinners, spa services, and special activities early. They offer the ability to book through their app, but we found a few were already filled or sold out when we tried.
firstRCcruise
If your going for the food they are either under staffed in kitchen so everything cold when served or Too many passengers for ability to have warm meal arrive to dining table or maybe understaffed????? Dont go on this ship if you want a nice dining experience in dining room. Many guests I met were disappointed in the food as well..
unicorn581
Be ready to enjoy and walk a lot !
RoxxiAtSea
Splurge on specialty restaurants it is worth it! Get a balcony cabin the views in Alaska are worth the money.
wesmoffett
dont expect it to be that much better than just sailing on a smaller older ship.
shonajeff
When in the Windjammer get your food and instead of TRYING to find a table close to the food, head to the back of the ship. We found several empty tables, quiet from all the bustling, and even tables outside to enjoy your meal.
Magicsneakers
Book shore excursions early or can book some independently or some were at ports of the pier that you could do. We did self driving jeep tour in Juneau, was well done and enjoyed ourselves with the 4 hr time given.
KHawk65
Make certain that there’s no Amway group of 800 Asians on your ship. They were rude, abrasive, and all over the ship and the ports taking pics and occupying everyone else’s space!
yantikahar
Book your trip
eholley43
Internet service doesn’t work well.
cd6color
Take it all in
tmhtruong
Nice big ship; has good facilities; for kid activities; comfortable rooms; great staffs.
melrodgers85
While the ship never really feels crowded, the venues do fill up surprisingly early. Shows, trivia, games, bingo, all of it filled up with no seats left so do get to anything you'd like to do uncommonly early.
DeadDragoon7
Look up the meal menus ahead of time for dining and for the themes of the buffet nights, in case there is a type you are hoping for. A family member constantly grumbled to me about not realizing they missed the night when they were offering Indian cuisine.
stevepasser
figure out where everything is, the ship is tough to navigate...walk it all on day 1.
glynncook
bring your walking shoes.
blairs4everfami
There is no place to play board games but everything else was amazing!
bharpe6
Schedule the free iFly and other activities the second you get onboard or you will have to do what I did and pay hundreds of dollars for the activities when they are not free.
yordaaguilar
Take a trip a enjoy life and better on the Ovation of the Seas.
AHarper1
Don't use a travel agency to book your cruise. If anything goes wrong, the travel agency will claim it's the cruise's fault and the cruise will claim it's the travel agency's fault, and they'll continue blaming each other to get out of actually fixing the problems they made.
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