Splendour of the Seas Review

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Family Review for Splendour (Split, Ephesus, and 2 Greek Islands)

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juliewill
2-5 Cruises • Age 40s

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Sail Date: Nov 2013
Traveled with children

Overall we had a great cruise for our family of 5 (2 adults, 3 kids ages 2, 4, 6). Since we had virtually no family reviews to read about before hand I will focus my review on mostly the young family options on the boat. My husband and I have cruised 4 times by ourselves, but this was our first time with kids.

Embarkation - Was simple and easy. Luggage drop off was a breeze and we had driven to the port (100 euro for 7 nights). It was less than a 5 minute from the car to check in. RC recognized our status on Celebrity so we got to check in as platinum members which made our line a little shorter. They had our cards ready to go, and our drink packages on our cards so we were very happy about how fast everything went.

Buffet - This would be my big negative for the trip, especially breakfast. When going down to the buffet most of the time it took 2-3 laps before a table could be located. Even though we were a family of 5 even a party of 2 was doing laps. The weather was nice enough to sit outside and even that was full. They asked us to be patient and they would help find us a seat, however waiting 15 minutes to sit with hungry children is not my idea of relaxing. My other problem is that they only had one person toasting breads in the whole buffet. One guy madly doing bagels, bread, muffins etc....seemed like they could have had another one open. Also the line for fresh eggs was always 10 people deep, I never bothered. The food in the buffet wasn't great, but it wasn't bad, I just made it a point to only do breakfast there and look elsewhere for lunch/dinner options.

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Room - We opted for 2 connecting rooms on deck 3 (3004/3006). It was an ocean view room right next to the elevator. It was a great location as we could take the elevator directly to the kids club, which made things very easy. The rooms were fine, I wish there was more storage for "folded" close, Celebrity has more space for clothes, hanging everything up, especially with kids clothes was not ideal, but overall it was fine. It was plenty big and the 2 separate rooms allowed some kids to nap while the others were coming in and out of the other room. The beds were set up as a double bed, and then each room had a pull down bunk bed which was only pulled down at night, so that you didn't have to worry about it all day. They only wanted to pull one bed down originally since we had 5 in our party, but I explained that if one kid has one the other one wants the cool bunk bed 2 so after telling me no they had it made the next night anyway. Our attendant was good and she even did towel animals which the kids loved. All in all nothing fancy but nice and the cable TV was not bad when chilling in the room.

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