Grandeur of the Seas Review

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Might be good for first time cruisers

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mvanella
2-5 Cruises • Age 30s

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Sail Date: Sep 2014
Cabin: Interior Stateroom
Traveled with children

This was the smallest ship I have ever been on in 4 cruises. Not necessarily a bad thing but I like more choices and more to explore. The good thing about the size is that we had a big wedding party (it was my sister's wedding on the ship) and it was very easy to locate people from our party. There are also ample amounts of public phones around the ship so we could call around to everyone's stateroom if we needed to get a hold of anyone. I cruised Freedom of the Seas back in May 2008 so this review will be comparative to my experience on that ship.

Food:

For some reason RC must have had some big problems with sickness on the ship because EVERYWHERE you went where there was food they basically forced you to use Purell from their dispensers. The dining in the main dining room (Great Gatsby) was good. Just good. Not great. Escargot was basically garlic and butter soup with pieces of snail in it. They have a decent menu, nothing was too appealing. They offer some great dishes for extra $$. The wait staff was excellent and friendly, aside from a mix up on the first night where they had split up the wedding party into two separate parts of the dining room when we had asked to be all seated in the same area. After my sister (the bride) threatened to unveil Bridezilla to them they fixed the issue that evening and we received an notice of table change the next day. Windjammer Cafe was mediocre, about Golden Corral standards. Not nearly as good as Freedom's buffet but better than food on Carnival cruises I have been on. Breakfast syrup was disgusting. The scrambled "eggs" were powdered (unless you go boiled eggs) and OK and so was the bacon. We decided to stick to the main dining room for lunch and dinner after the first day. Room service was same quality of Windjammer. We had room service delivered to the stateroom every morning, which is a nice feature, but the food was mediocre.

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Interior Stateroom

Cabin N

Cabin was great except for one thing which I will get to near the end.The Good:This was my 4th cruise and our second interior room. Great room for the money. Since I am rarely in the room it didn't make sense to shell out the $ for the window or balcony room. Plus my wife and child both like it pitch black in the room when they sleep so they made it easy. We had a 2 year old and we asked for a pack n play. When we booked the cruise they said they would have a PNP ready when we boarded but we had to ask our attendant for it when we boarded the first evening. It was set up when we got back from dinner that evening. The PNP fit nicely behind the small couch in the room. There was enough room for all of our stuff and some room under the bed. We had 2 full adult suitcases, I had 2 suits, and we had a small kids suitcase and some other carry ons but we found room for all of it. Room service was prompt. The TV has more channels than our last cruise, but no interactive menu for ordering movies like other cruises we have been on. Overall the room was good and had a nice layout.The bad AND the ugly:We had a lingering sewage smell coming from the drains and sink in our bathroom. Toilet flushed fine so we couldn't figure out what was going on. After 2 days it got so bad we couldn't stand being in the bathroom without holding our breath. I called the attendant and he cleaned down into the pipes while we were away. This drastically reduced the smell but did not eliminate it. It still lingered the rest of the cruise. I think there must have been something wrong with the plumbing.

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