As the day dawn the anticipation mounted, and having travelled on several other cruise lines, including RCCL, cruising on the Voyager was a new experience. My partner and I also introduced 5 other passengers to RCCL, we had travelled with this group previously in March on HAL. and had such a wonderful trip we decided to do it again.

Embarkation was a breeze and on less than 40 mins we were on board and escorted to the Windjammer for lunch. It should be noted that we did require wheel chair assistance, I believe that the ease of embarkation was due to the on shore staff rather than Voyager crew, but having said that the Crew member who assisted was very pleasant, even with her limited English, this was to be a recurring theme I am sad to say.

Lunch was chaotic but as we were lucky to secure a table the food was ok. About an hour later we were allowed in to our stateroom, a balcony on deck 9. Our stateroom attendant introduced himself and welcomed us back to RCCL, and thanked us for choosing RCCL, shame he had to read a card to do so. Our attendant was pretty aloof the whole trip, we asked him about fruit, yes you need to ring room service, previously cruises it was not a problem for the attendant to organise. He left us his card with his number , however when ever we called it was never answered we were left to try and catch him in the companion way Read more