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Voyager of the Seas Cruise Review to Caribbean - Southern

Cruises: 2-3 cruises
Review: 1
Helpful Votes: 31

Overall rating:

4.2 out of 5
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Voyager of the Seas

7 Night Southern Caribbean (San Juan Roundtrip)

Sail date: December 30, 2022

Ship: Voyager of the Seas

Cabin type: Balcony

Cabin number: 6268

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 1 year ago

Review summary

RC was good overall, but needs to be more generous with water, and soft drinks. Improve drastically on their evening entertainment and more diverse. Karaoke and games are not most people's Forte. More music sesessions for the rest of none white customers. New Years cruise should be way better. Not even a cheap champion offered to toast the event.

Embarkation

4 out of 5
Good overall, except for unfortunate in cabin incident, which dampened our departure.

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

4 out of 5
The food was good overall, which includes for myself breakfast and dinner. Due to missing lunch daily when customers go to visit the port of the day. BREAKFAST buffet very ho hum. If you go the a la carta, it takes a while to get seated. Hence you miss a few hours of doing the port exploration /excursions. Coffee is not good quality, just ordinary low quality. Royal Caribbean (RC) is way to cheap with its charging already high priced cabin fees for bottled water and any soft drink. They only offer water and lemonade or ice tea for dinner. I will NOT be going on future RC cruises, until the do better on these petty issues.

Onboard Activities

4 out of 5
Good compliment of activity for the on board crowd. It's up to the individual to get involved.

Entertainment

5 out of 5
This New Years cruise had a lame way of celebrating the New Year. The port of origin was San Juan, PR. Large Hispanic presence and they catered mainly to the Anglo crowd. Poor entertainment, program. Wake up RC NOT everyone on board is white. The world is more DIVERSE.

Service and Staff

4 out of 5
Good people trying to give us a great time, with limited resources on hand. Wi-fi rates and drink packages are ridiculous. I bought one drink the whole cruise, because of the money hungry price for a shot. I spent the rest off board drinks.

Ship Quality

5 out of 5
Nice design, looks great and has a smart design and features. Elevators seen to run slow during peak times, probably due to the large amount of people on board.

Cabin / Stateroom

5 out of 5
Pretty good overall. Affords out side air flow for those who hate being in a refrigerated box. .

Ports of call

Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas

5 out of 5
Lots to see, but need to anchor at other port, closer to town center.

Frederiksted, St. Croix, U.S.V.I.

1 out of 5
Very poor, nothing worth while to do or see on New Years Day.

Philipsburg, St. Maarten

5 out of 5
Great Port lots to do and see within walking range without a Taxi. Good purchases for booze and cheese.

Castries, St. Lucia

3 out of 5
Good port, not a lot of bargains. Expensive and low offering for those who walk from the ship to town and do the beach after wards.

Bridgetown, Barbados

5 out of 5
Great Port for doing the close by beaches and lunch by the water. Pretty clean beach and water areas

Basseterre, St. Kitts

3 out of 5
OK, lots of shops for the souvenir hunter. Except for key chains and magnet crowd. Ridiculous prices.

Disembarkation

5 out of 5
Pretty normal, about one hour from cabin to gate.

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5 Comments

firefighter4u    1 year ago

Complain about the entertainment yet give it 5 stars… makes sense.

TITAN12    1 year ago

Thanks for the review.

Gwbigdog    1 year ago

Thanks for sharing your cruise

banaford    1 year ago

All cruise lines charge for soda and bottle water, except Disney, and some higher, higher priced cruises. Do some better research if you ever cruise again.

kdlady    1 year ago

Not sure what you mean by "white" and "non-white" entertainment.