General Info: This was my 5th cruise. I have previously sailed 3 times with RCI and once with Carnival. I'm 28, and traveled with my husband, parents, aunt & uncle, brother, and his girlfriend.

Embarkation: We arrived to the cruise ship terminal very early (We got there a little after 10:00.) because my dad is always chronically early for everything. There was a nice waiting area where we sat for about a half hour until they started checking people in. While sitting there, we were given a ticket with a number. This was the number for boarding the shuttle to the ship, and it was a great way to keep everything organized and moving smoothly. Shortly before 11:00, we were led to the registration area and we were the very first ones to check in! The only problem we had was that they did not have my aunt's SeaPass card. They told her they would make one and have it ready in a few minutes. After about 45 minutes (and asking a few different people about it) she finally got her card. Our number for the shuttle was called about 20 minutes later. It was a quick and easy shuttle ride to the ship, and we were onboard around 12:30. We had lunch at the Windjammer while we waited for our rooms to be ready. We went to our room at 1:15, and our room steward, Teddy, was just finishing up.

Food: This was a big disappointment for me. The food is not nearly as good as I remember it being on my previous cruises with RCI, and it didn't even come close to being as good as Carnival. I ate mussels twice—once in the Windjammer and once in the dining room—and they were horribly overcooked both times. Dining room food was great the first two nights (The scallop entree was excellent!), but the quality quickly went downhill after that. Our table would often receive the wrong food, or the food would be missing ingredients that were listed in the menu description. Occasionally, some of us would order the same entree, but each person's food arrived looking and tasting slightly different. For example - one night I ordered pasta with scallops and portobellos, but was disappointed to see the tiny diver scallops and no portobellos. My brother ordered the exact same thing, and his came with larger bay scallops (that had been cut into pieces) and he had portobellos with his. Another night, several of us ordered cheese cannelloni. As usual, half of us were served several minutes before everyone else. Those of us who were first to receive the meal had quite a bit of sauce on our plate. Those who received their entrees later had almost no sauce at all. There was not a single night where service went smoothly; every night some of us were given the wrong dishes. (And we ate in the dining room 7 nights.) At first we would correct the server, but some of us just gave up after several days of this and just ate whatever was brought out. Read more