Symphony of the Seas Cruise Reviews - Reviews

Excellent transatlantic. Beautiful ship. Fantastic 9 days at sea.

The ship and amenities are topnotch. The servers, cabin stewards, officers. And entertainment staff were superb helpful, and friendly. The food was very disappointing, as the only elegant meal was the lobster tail. Breakfast buffet at the solarium was the only food that didn't disappoint!

We are so glad we are on this ship with so many days at sea first before two port visits in Spain ending in Barcelona. This is by far our best and biggest ship so far (22) and although there are close to 6000+ passengers and 2000+ crew there is so much room to do things without it seeming too busy. First our room on deck 9 is really nice with an extra-large sofa which makes it seem bigger. The lanai is also perfect with a great view looking straight down at the water. This also is our best ever bathroom with a real shower door that closes tightly and the bathroom has a classy look about it with plenty of storage. While they have a great promenade area about a block long with so many places to just hang out with free snacks and pizza all day and people watching. There are also two other areas just as big with a large garden central park atmosphere and a winding walk-way with lots of restaurants and sitting areas. The second one is adult and kid friendly Aqua Theater with a giant merry-go-round and large 51 foot high diving pool for fantastic acrobatics shows and outdoor movies. There are apparently 500 young kids on the ship but you would never know it. I see a lot of little things the ships are doing now since Covid to save money. Today was our dress up night where they used to call lobster night. No more free lobster. You can still get lobster at $16.99 on the old lobster night or anytime at $25.99. No big deal we just don't need a lobster. Overall, their main dining is spacious and well designed. It's 3 floors high and we have a nice two-seater looking down on the two floors below. The staff was all very professional and friendly and also seems more diverse that other ships which is nice.

It's a trip well worth going! I will take Royal Caribbean again in the future.

Over all this trip was OK, It was booked as a 9 hour excursion. When we arrived it was changed to 3.5 hrs. The video on the excursion page showed A tour going thru a Jungle with bikes, the level was listed as Strenuous activity level. It was mild at best as there were 7 and 8 year kids zooming around down the 1/2 mile stone road. On the video for the Cenote someone climbing down a ladder with a hard hat going down into the Cenote. My wife had to work herself up to doing it as she has fears of being enclosed. Once we saw the Cenote it looked like a pond in someone back yard ()see pics) with concrete walls and piping sending water into a muddy pond. They fixed a authentic Mexican lunch which was pre made tacos sitting on a gas grill with no propane tank attached being put on our plate as if it were freshly made there. At the beach for the paddle boarding experience there were 7 paddleboards for 32 people. All the kiddos took the paddle boards and we decided to just sit at the beach and wait till we arrived safely back on the ship to voice our concerns. THIS ENTIRE CURISE WAS BOOKED ON THE EXPECTATION THAT WE WOULD SEE CENOTES. This was our 4th trip to Mexico, We never got to see one as the excursion we booked was a complete Joke, so much so that Royal Caribbean refunded most of our excursion cost. I still want to see a Cenote, will probably fly there instead of being on the time restraint of a cruise. Royal didn't want to give us more than 50 percent of the cost back initially. I should not have to negotiate our refund as everyone on the tour was disanointed.

The ship itself is worth taking a trip at least once. This was our second on Symphony of the seas. The overall quality and choices of both food and entertainment has gone down within few years. I hope they don’t decline further.

Two of our family members had never been on a cruise and this was an incredible experience. The ship, crew, staff, food and entertainment was the best of the best.

Amazing ship with overwhelming volume of activities. Very noisy and not relaxing with mediocre food of minimal quality.

BEYOND EXPECTATIONS GREAT ENTERTAINMENT, SERVICE, AND ATMOSPHERE, GREAT TRAVEL HOSTS.

I enjoy it very well had a wonderful time. The food was good. The entertainments was the best…

It was an amazing cruise as always! Thanks very much Thomas for setting it up!

Wish the ice cream machine were open till 11pm. Love that the hot tubs were open late at night. Central Park is wonderful

If we do a cruise again it will be one where we get off the boat more than 3 times over 7 days.

Wonder time. Wife's first cruise and she is looking forward to the next one

We relaxed and intermittently enjoyed activities. Just perfect.

We had a nice time on our cruise. We will cruise again someday.

We were on our honeymoon, ship should have celebrated that by sending something to our cabin, it would have been nice, we also found out our cat had passed Thursday evening and pretty much ruined the rest of our time

This was our very 1st cruise, glad we traveled with friends who cruising a lot! Very impressed with ship size and entertainment offered! Food was very good, staff was amazing! Definatelly will be booking again! Currently looking for holiday cruise with family and friends

We had a great time! The ship was fantastic in cleanliness, entertainment, variety of foods, and staffing. We would definitely consider cruising again!

We had the absolute best cruise! Jamie, our agent answered every single question we had, and made sure we had everything we needed for the most memorable trip & cruise. We had several different groups to link together and she was so helpful & responded promptly to all members of our cruise group.