Voyager of the Seas Review

Enjoyable trip to New Zealand

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Sail Date: Jan 2013
Cabin: Grand Suite

Sydney to NZ - 14 nights. Platinum Crown & Anchor members staying in a Grand Suite on deck 10.

Arrival: We arrived at Overseas Terminal Sydney around 3pm due to our flight in from country NSW getting to Sydney Airport at around 2.15pm. We walked down to the train platform, via a few escalators, and there were several other Royal Caribbean luggage tags on cases of those around us. In very short time a train arrived and the trip went straight to Circular Quay station. There was light drizzle, but the walk to Voyager was pretty easy and we boarded very quickly due to being Suite guests.

We had been expecting there to be heaps of passengers as had previously been the case with Rhapsody in Sydney in Feb 2011 and with Radiance in Fremantle in March 2012. The staggered boarding seems to work so much better.

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Grand Suite

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The cabin was in good condition, some wear, as you would expect for a ship that has announced revitalization next year, but nice and roomy and the bed was comfortable and everything seemed very clean. Our bathroom had small shampoo, conditioner, etc, toiletries like a hotel. There was a kettle and a percolator/dripolator thing. The TV had sound running through an amplifier which had small speakers on the wall. There was a DVD player, but we didn't have time to use it, and I couldn't say what region would work in it.

Balcony was nice and big with 2 chairs plus a table plus a lounger. Well protected from the wind with the way this ship's hull brings the balconies within the structure. You were very private out there.

The fixtures of the room did not creak like we had experienced on other ships. Some drawers did open when there was motion. We put a couple of wads of paper in the ones beside the bed.

The bath is quite high to step into, and this was remarked on by many people. If someone is a bit unsure in this area I would certainly be wary. I don't know why they don't have some Junior Suites and Grand Suites with shower stalls.

Deck 10: Out in the hallway a few cabins along was a big air blower. It was in the hallway for days, and we heard that later in the cruise a cabin across from us had a toilet overflow issue and the air blower was used in there also. There were often strange smells, urine, musty etc, and several times we saw maintenance people in the hallway, once with a water meter. The pool deck above was often very flooded from the pool water splashing (even though we had quite calm seas most of the trip), and we watched a drain on deck 11, very close to above our cabin, have water sloshing around it, but not going down the small drain very accurately.

Not sure what the cause of the smells was, but we called maintenance one day when there was a revolting musty smell in our room when we came back after lunch. He looked like he couldn't understand what the issue was, but shortly after a fresher smell came through, and when we went into the hallway there seemed to be a light air freshener smell.

There were never any noise problems in our room at all. The most we heard was late evening a couple of trolleys going across the pool deck. Not noisy, but just to give an example that we are not deaf!

The fixtures of the room did not creak like we had experienced on other ships. Some drawers did open when there was motion. We put a couple of wads of paper in the ones beside the bed.

The air conditioning is very drying overnight. But it is able to be adjusted for personal taste.

We overall enjoyed the room and would recommend it.

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