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Symphony of the Seas Cruise Review to Caribbean - Southern

Cruises: 4-6 cruises
Review: 1
Helpful Votes: 22

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: 8 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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6 Comments

HeavySeas     8 months ago

Awesome.....thanks for sharing and glad you enjoyed your cruise

javawoody     8 months ago

Appreciate the review

Gwbigdog     8 months ago

Thanks for sharing

enjoyurdaysmile     8 months ago

Royal Caribbean or any other cruise line will not go to an unsafe place. And as far as those lounge chairs people are very mean. Like I said they do not care about anybody but themselves. Carnival Cruise line. They put a note on the back of the lounge chair 45 minutes and I think Norwegian does 30.

enjoyurdaysmile     8 months ago

Royal Caribbean is not going to labrady because of this reason with the gun control so they are going to other places. They would never take you anywhere that is unsafe. As far as the lounge chairs on the pool deck, these people are so rude crude and mean and nasty because gosh forbid if you sit on their chair with their towelers are going to get mad. They have no right to do this and they wouldn't like it done to them. I'll tell you a story. I went on a cruise. I wanted to sit on a lounge chair ask the man who sitting on the lounge chair. He said a woman. I took her tote bag off the lounge chair and put her book on the tote bag. I sat there for one hour and she never came back. I left, cuz it was just too much sun and I had enough. If people would not be so rude clued at me a nasty it would be nice but they're not. The next time just take their stuff off and put it on another chair if you think that they're not going to be back in forever.

cruising2004     8 months ago

Glad everyone had a wonderful time! Thank you for your review.

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