My wife and I just returned on March 16th from a 14 day B2B cruise on the Adventure of the Seas. We have traveled on Royal Caribbean twice before to Hawaii. We are experienced cruisers, this was our 18th cruise. We have traveled on Celebrity, Azmara, Princess, NCL, Holland America, Carnival and the old Dolphin cruise line. We have learned to expect certain amenities on our cruises. This cruise was completely different; I cannot believe how much Royal Caribbean’s Adventure of the Seas has down graded. I expected much more from RCCL. Dining Room Staff and room stewards were very, very good, but the rest of the ship seemed short of staff.
The room 6622 (Deluxe Veranda) was not as pictured on the RCCL web site (very misleading). The Veranda was very visually obstructed, the railing was solid metal, over 3 ft high and one side had pipes blocking almost 15 inches of vision. My wife is 5” tall and sitting in a deck chair could see the horizon. We would never, never have booked an obstructed view veranda.
The amenities were nonexistent, no shampoo, conditioner, no shower cap, no ice bucket, robes, tote bags and no chocolate on our pillow at night. The mattress needed to be replaced and finally no daily world news letter.