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Serenade of the Seas Cruise Review to Caribbean - Bahamas

Cruises: 7+ cruises
Reviews: 2
Helpful Votes: 91

Overall rating:

3 out of 5
Serenade of the Seas

7 Night Bahamas (New Orleans Roundtrip)

Sail date: April 19, 2014

Ship: Serenade of the Seas

Cabin type: Balcony

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 10 years ago

Review summary

We have sailed the serenade of the seas on a 14 day round trip to Hawaii and had a great time on board.

Since we like the radiance class of ships we decided to take a short 7 day cruise to the Bahama's and get out of  the cold weather for a bit. Royal had refurbished the ship last year and had removed the Seaview cafe, a wonderful little nook on deck 12 aft, and added an oriental cafe ($5.00 please) in its place. They also removed the covered wicker chairs on one side of the outside eating area and in its place they added a Mexican cantina ( a la carte menu $$$). The activities on board are outdated.  On all of our 18 previous they have had the same boring napkin folding, towel folding, belly flop contest (change that one so that the women can participate) love and marriage game, etc....that they repeated on this cruise.

The staff were amazing and we will sail Royal again.  They might even have some fun things to do on board.

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

3 out of 5
food was not up to the standard that we have enjoy on past cruises

Onboard Activities

1 out of 5
Outdated and not fun

Entertainment

3 out of 5
singers and musicans were fine.

Children's Programs

N/A

Service and Staff

5 out of 5

Ship Quality

3 out of 5

Cabin / Stateroom

3 out of 5
Didn't like the fact that as a Diamond member I had to ask for robes and Ice. I also had to ask for an ice tray as they only provide the ice bucket and not the glasses.

Ship tip

If your going to sail just to get away from it all and lay by the pool with your book, You will have a great time.

Ports of call

New Orleans, Louisiana

3 out of 5

Key West, Florida

3 out of 5

Nassau, Bahamas

3 out of 5

Cococay (Cruise Line's Private Island)

3 out of 5
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