juju12345
Mouseketeer
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- Jun 15, 2009
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I just got back from my first Royal cruise. I did the 3nt Navigator of the Seas out of Miami. Previously I’ve sailed Celebrity (once) and Disney (five times).
Stateroom- we had a balcony room 7234. It seemed clean enough but there was trash under the bed from previous guest so I don’t know how detailed they cleaned it. We never met our stateroom attendant. On Disney they always make a point to introduce themselves but this guy just left a card with his name on it in the room. The room did not have enough places to charge things- I’m used to USB chargers by the bed but this room only had 2 plugs by the desk and that was it. The sheets had some weird moldy smell to them. I would’ve tracked down housekeeping but on 3nt cruise I just didn’t have time to complain.
Food- we did the main dining room on first 2 nights but food was just okay and the service was very slow. We were eating quickly and dinner was taking about 2 hours. The 3rd night we just did the buffet which was way better. I would do the buffet every night next time. The breakfast buffet was great. The only other food I tried was the pool Mexican restaurant and it was awesome. The bar by the pool was good too.
Employees- mostly great but I wasn’t prepared for a hard sell on everything. We weren’t going to get the drink package but as soon as we stepped on the ship we got talked into it- I’m talking timeshare level hard sell. Also the employee kinda lied about how much drinks onboard would be so our calculations were off - she said beer would run $10 and cocktails $14. In reality most beer was $6-7 and cocktails $8-11- the most expensive I saw was $13. It was buy one get one half off so we probably broke even but we were drinking more than we would have just bc we had the package. I felt like everyone had the package so lines at bars were sometimes so long I just would leave- the bar at Coco Cay I waited almost 30 minutes. Also we were approached the first day least 5 times by people trying to get us to book speciality dining- it was almost comical bc one would leave us and someone else would appear trying to sell it to us.
Port- booked the luxury yacht in Nassau and it was great- met at pier at 8:30am and got tour of marina area and had great snorkeling followed by delicious lunch and all you can drink. Back at 11:30. Then we walked around Nassau a bit.
Coco Cay was beautiful. We didn’t go to water park or any extra charge things. We just got chairs at Chill Beach (got there an hour after ship arrived and there were still lots of chairs with umbrellas). Lines at bar were crazy (there was another ship there at same time) so I learned it’s quicker to wait for waiters to come around and bring drinks. The food was delicious - taco bar, hot dogs, hamburgers, ice cream etc.
I didn’t have a chance to even get in the pools but they looked fun and they had huge hot tub that looked nice. I did one slide but had to wait in line 30min so only did it once.
Got my hair done at the Dry Bar- blowout was $59 and I felt worth it. The casino was a lot of fun but couldn’t stay too long bc my eyes were burning from the smoke. The magician Bill Cook was awesome and so was the cruise director Marcello.
Overall it was a very fun weekend getaway- I don’t know how much I can judge Royal as a whole bc I understand the 3nt is more of a party cruise so it might be different on longer one.
Stateroom- we had a balcony room 7234. It seemed clean enough but there was trash under the bed from previous guest so I don’t know how detailed they cleaned it. We never met our stateroom attendant. On Disney they always make a point to introduce themselves but this guy just left a card with his name on it in the room. The room did not have enough places to charge things- I’m used to USB chargers by the bed but this room only had 2 plugs by the desk and that was it. The sheets had some weird moldy smell to them. I would’ve tracked down housekeeping but on 3nt cruise I just didn’t have time to complain.
Food- we did the main dining room on first 2 nights but food was just okay and the service was very slow. We were eating quickly and dinner was taking about 2 hours. The 3rd night we just did the buffet which was way better. I would do the buffet every night next time. The breakfast buffet was great. The only other food I tried was the pool Mexican restaurant and it was awesome. The bar by the pool was good too.
Employees- mostly great but I wasn’t prepared for a hard sell on everything. We weren’t going to get the drink package but as soon as we stepped on the ship we got talked into it- I’m talking timeshare level hard sell. Also the employee kinda lied about how much drinks onboard would be so our calculations were off - she said beer would run $10 and cocktails $14. In reality most beer was $6-7 and cocktails $8-11- the most expensive I saw was $13. It was buy one get one half off so we probably broke even but we were drinking more than we would have just bc we had the package. I felt like everyone had the package so lines at bars were sometimes so long I just would leave- the bar at Coco Cay I waited almost 30 minutes. Also we were approached the first day least 5 times by people trying to get us to book speciality dining- it was almost comical bc one would leave us and someone else would appear trying to sell it to us.
Port- booked the luxury yacht in Nassau and it was great- met at pier at 8:30am and got tour of marina area and had great snorkeling followed by delicious lunch and all you can drink. Back at 11:30. Then we walked around Nassau a bit.
Coco Cay was beautiful. We didn’t go to water park or any extra charge things. We just got chairs at Chill Beach (got there an hour after ship arrived and there were still lots of chairs with umbrellas). Lines at bar were crazy (there was another ship there at same time) so I learned it’s quicker to wait for waiters to come around and bring drinks. The food was delicious - taco bar, hot dogs, hamburgers, ice cream etc.
I didn’t have a chance to even get in the pools but they looked fun and they had huge hot tub that looked nice. I did one slide but had to wait in line 30min so only did it once.
Got my hair done at the Dry Bar- blowout was $59 and I felt worth it. The casino was a lot of fun but couldn’t stay too long bc my eyes were burning from the smoke. The magician Bill Cook was awesome and so was the cruise director Marcello.
Overall it was a very fun weekend getaway- I don’t know how much I can judge Royal as a whole bc I understand the 3nt is more of a party cruise so it might be different on longer one.
