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Symphony of the Seas Cruise Review to Caribbean - Southern

Cruises: 4-6 cruises
Review: 1
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Overall rating:

4.9 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: 8320

Traveled as: Family (young children)

Reviewed: 2 months ago

Review summary

We had a great time. Kid and adults both had fun and relaxed.

Embarkation

5 out of 5
Fast & Easy

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

5 out of 5
Wait staff was great , accommodating, happy, friendly. Food was good.

Onboard Activities

5 out of 5
Love the trivia. Morning aerobics was cool. Slides were fun. Rock climbing was fun. Zip line was fun. Pools got crowded quickly. People reserved chairs early in the morning- which was really frustrating. By 9:30-10am there were barely any open chairs! šŸ˜ž They really need to enforce no saving seats(putting your towel on the chair and going to activities/restaurants/ect..then come back 4 hrs later) The lines for Flow Rider & rock wall were long, and sometimes took up to an hour. šŸ˜ž

Entertainment

4 out of 5
Comedy show was ok. It was really hard to ā€˜reserveā€™ tickets- not a lot of ā€œopenā€ times. We didnā€™t get to see Hiro because it got reserved too quickly. Same with laser tag- no open times to reserve.

Children's Programs

4 out of 5
We only used kids club a few days. Wish it was open during meal times. Sometimes we wanted to have a nice meal at a specialty restaurant or at main dining alone, but kids club was closed from 5p-7p. They did have a science lab, which our 7yr old loved! That was cool.

Service and Staff

5 out of 5
All the service staff was super nice and helpful.

Ship Quality

5 out of 5
Always clean and staff was quick to clean up a mess/spill. Layout was good, just wish there was more of a heads up or a map to let us know which floors you couldnā€™t walk directly through the middle to get to each end of the ship.

Cabin / Stateroom

5 out of 5
Cabin was nice- clean, comfortable, enough drawer space/closet space. But walls very thin. We could hear everything in neighboring rooms- TV, music, voices, stomping, ect. Doors slam so loud when leaving room. Unfortunately our neighbors were teens/young adults and were VERY loud.

Ship tip

Bring socks- need socks in order to go on zip line, rock wall, and ice skating.

Ports of call

Ft. Lauderdale (Port Everglades), Florida Did not visit port

Didnā€™t do any excursions, just got on & off the ship here.

Oranjestad, Aruba

5 out of 5
Very pretty county. Not what I expected- I didnā€™t know it was so windy! The beach was beautiful.

Willemstad, Curacao

5 out of 5
Another very beautiful country. The tour was great. And beach was fun. I like that we had reserved beach chairs- very convenient.

Labadee (Cruise Line Private Island) Did not visit port

Iā€™m glad we didnā€™t stop here due to the gangs/problems going on with government.

Disembarkation

5 out of 5
Very easy. Lines backed up at and got crowded, but it was as organized as much as it could have been.
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