Allure of the Seas Review

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Allure of the Seas - Everyone must see/experience this ship!

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ojprincess
2-5 Cruises • Age 30s

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Sail Date: Aug 2012
Cabin: Superior Ocean View Stateroom with Balcony

I have recently just returned from my cruise on the Allure of the Seas.

This was my first experience on a Royal Caribbean cruise line as I normally sail with Princess. Overall the ship is aboslutely amazing!!! It met and exceeded all my expectations. I travelled with my two 50 year old parents, my 26 year old sister and my boyfriend. We were all adults traveling and we booked this cruise JUST to see this ship.

Dining - We had "my time" dining as when we booked the ship 5 months in advance the scheduled time dinners were already booked up so we were left with the my time option. This worked out perfect for us as we had already booked our shows online and on the first day of arrival on the boat, we were able to set and make time reservations to eat each night depending on the time of our shows. This was very easy to do the staff was very accomodating and they were great. We originally were just going to sit at a different table everynight until the first night we went to dine and we had a fantastic set of Waiter and assistant waiter (Karen and Angel). These two were fantastic, so hilarious and entertaining as well as quick and helpful with selections on the dinner menues each night. My whole family found the food in the dining room to be "OK". It was nothing special or anything great. We found the Princess ships dining food to be FAR MORE SUPERIOR. Everynight on the Princess Cruise we were blown away with flavor and presentation of every single dish.. the food on this boat however was nowhere comparable. Not to say the food was bad, it just was plain, not very much flavor and you can DEFINETLY tell the head chef is NOT italian because there was very little Italian dishes and the ones that were on the menue were horrible!! They provided the same tomatoe sauce with EVERY pasta dish, never changed, and it was so sweet and like a sauce only children would like. It tasted like a can of alphagetttis definetly not a sauce that was meant for adults to enjoy a pasta dish. We did one specialty restaurant called "Chops Grille" this was FANTASTIC food. The presentation of the food was beautiful and so classy and the taste was aboslutely decadent. Every bite was excellent. We were shocked at the difference in quality of food from the specialty restaurants to the dining room.... total difference. We found this to be quite sad as this boat really forces you to pay for the specialty restaurants if you want good quality meals. No other ship seems to force you to spend the additional money on these restaurants than this boat. We really didn't like being pusshed every single day by the workers in the specialty restaurant to sign up for their restaurants everyday in the promenade... someone would come up to you and bug you to pay for the extra restaurants. Its a shame they dont spend and invest as much time and effort into their dining room food for the rest of the guests on the boat.

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Superior Ocean View Stateroom with Balcony

Cabin D8
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