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Symphony of the Seas Cruise Review to Caribbean - Southern

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Review: 1
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Overall rating:

4.4 out of 5
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Symphony of the Seas

8 Night Southern Caribbean (Ft. Lauderdale Roundtrip)

Sail date: March 09, 2024

Ship: Symphony of the Seas

Cabin type: Balcony

Cabin number: 12202

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 8 months ago

Review summary

Overall cruise was great, with the aforementioned preference or observation notations that were cited

Embarkation

5 out of 5
Smooth & easy

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

4 out of 5
✅ a tad-crowded with some delays in seating

Onboard Activities

4 out of 5
Activities available a tad-crowded

Entertainment

5 out of 5
Excellent Entertainment

Children's Programs

No Children

Service and Staff

5 out of 5
Entire staff from embarkation through sailing plus excursions to disembarking were all inclusively : Super-Attentive, Quite-Caring, Extremely-competent, and highly efficient

Ship Quality

4 out of 5
Childrens’ “playsection” noise near Johnny Rocket interferes with Aqua Show; and, if cost-effective(??), should be relocated proximate-to The Carousel (could also facilitate keeping an “eye-out” for more than one child if they are “closer-together”?

Cabin / Stateroom

4 out of 5
OK; but, prefer the firmer room-cleaning Twice-Per-Day as that “ONLY ONCE PER DAY” choice of ‘Room-Clean’ choice of either “only morning room cleaning” or “only evening room cleaning” not-desirable and didn’t “work” on this cruise.

Ship tip

Bring lots of patience, as sometimes, even “reservation-planned-events” get backlogged and delayed if too many people are interested in the same venues

Ports of call

Ft. Lauderdale (Port Everglades), Florida

5 out of 5
Great embarkation ststem

Oranjestad, Aruba

4 out of 5
“BACK-TO-BACK” (morning onto afternoon) excursions “too close” in that morning excursions end “late” and sometimes need to “Rush” to “just-make” (or lose-out-on) the afternoon excursion (“rushed”)

Willemstad, Curacao

4 out of 5
“BACK-TO-BACK” (morning onto afternoon) excursions “too close” in that morning excursions end “late” and sometimes need to “Rush” to “just-make” (or lose-out-on) the afternoon excursion (“rushed”)

Labadee (Cruise Line Private Island) Did not visit port

Every Cruise taken in the psst, it has always turned out to be overcrowded

Disembarkation

5 out of 5
Smooth great efficient disembarking
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6 Comments

kef2016     8 months ago

Thanks for sharing your cruise experience. Glad you enjoyed your cruise.

Gwbigdog     8 months ago

Thanks for sharing

javawoody     8 months ago

Thanks for the review

HeavySeas     8 months ago

Thanks for sharing and glad you enjoyed your cruise

cruising2004     8 months ago

Glad you enjoyed! Noticed your sail and review dates are the same.

AuntPinkie     8 months ago

Appreciate your feedback. Glad you enjoyed your cruise in spite of the crowds. Many of the cruise lines have gone to once per day room “cleaning”, agree that it’s not optimal.

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