Adventure of the Seas Review
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After an absence of some ten years from Royal Caribbean Cruises, we expected some kind of refinement of services ect on our choice of ship, Adventure of the Seas. Nothing what so ever has changed, they are still the same old Royal Caribbean as we sampled 10? years ago on Voyager of the Seas. Breakfast and lunch in the Windjammer were the same old "Bun Fight" although this time without trays. Tables were at a premium with passengers using the table they eventually found to have conversations lasting long into the afternoon, some people actually used it as a Library for reading purposes but with Free Coffee!
The food in the dining room was anything but Great!. On one of the formal evenings we were treated to Chicken Cordon-Blue. The only difference her was that the "Chicken" part of the meal was made from "Reconstituted Chicken", or as I prefer to say Chicken swept up from a Butchers table and fashioned into the shape of a Chicken Breast. When questioning the Head Waiter, he seemed not to want to get involved and offered to bring out the Chef. The Chef insisted that the meat on my plate was chicken, and he was absolutely correct, it was Chicken but chicken pieces from some four hundred plus chickens fashioned in to a Chicken Breast. The Chef seemed more interested in playing games with me with a "Play on words" that settling a reasonable claim that on a Cruise ship, on a "Formal Night" serving reconstituted Chicken as the main course was nothing short of an insult to passengers who paid good money and surely should be able to expect "Chicken Breasts" rather than chicken from all the other parts of the bird which had "White Meat". Nothing short of disgusting I thought, as were the inane promptings of the British Chef who knows what chicken is, that is Royal Caribbean chicken, at any rate!
Cabins were rather tacky and that's being generous to RCCI, the seating area in our Cabin had a two seat settee, which I think came down into another bed. Before sitting down on this settee, you were treated to all the colours of the rainbow from the Vibrant Green which was the original colour to tacky Greenish Brown patches on the seat area to that filthy dark brown of dirt on the arms of the settee.
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Cabins on RCCI are all similar and do the job, but are fairly uninteresting except for the absolutely filthy settee we had in our Cabin. The beds, we asked for single beds as when it's a double or King Size it restricts the Cabin Greatly. The Cabin is far more efficiently used when it's twin beds with an Aisle up the centre, between the beds. Apart from the dirty settee there is nothing much more to be said. Cabins were adequate if they were kept clean. This is no reflection on the Room Boys, this dirt was something which was beyond anything they could clean without "Dine-A-Rod".