We just come back from an exotic 12 nights Asian cruise on the Rhapsody of the Seas.

We are experienced cruisers and we mostly cruise on Celebrity. We were prepared to see a difference in the service but not to that point.

Embarkation : nightmare. In the busy HongKong I have to admit, there is no evident way to make a huge ship's embarkation run smoothly. We had to leave our luggage right next to the ship, and come back to the Marco Polo hotel to register . There was a lot of congestion and it took a great while before check-in. Once register we had to walk through a shopping mall and get to the port to embark. Read more