Anthem of the Seas Review
How an outbreak of food poisoning DIDN'T happen is a miracle!
Review for Transatlantic Cruise on Anthem of the Seas
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First Time Cruiser • Age 50s
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Sail Date: Oct 2015
Cabin: Superior Ocean View Stateroom with Balcony
Where do i begin? From the chaos of not organising the coaches effectively taking us to / from the ship, to failing to top up the soft drinks for days on certain machines, to failing to clean slippery spills in a restaurant completely when the ship was about to enter severe weather (and causing at least one serious avoidable fall), to the captain not caring / understanding that food should either be served hot or chilled (not luke warm), the basic standards simply aren't there!
Which is such a shame, because the vast majority of the ships crew that interact with the passengers are friendly, attentive, knowledgeable and willing to go above and beyond to make your trip excellent.
Let me clarify the food issue. Myself and many passengers were grumbling that food items were not hot (despite being under heat lamps. If it's veg not an issue, however this was happening with chicken! I noticed that a particular chicken dish was luke warm. I mentioned it to the manager. He tested the temperature with his finger on a piece of chicken, and agreed that it was not hot, and hence couldn't be served. However, they did not remove the tray with all the other pieces of chicken which were also unfit!
Cabin Review
Superior Ocean View Stateroom with Balcony
Cabin D8
The cabin was good standard, with a large tv, a balcony with 2 chairs and footstools, and a reasonable amount of storage space.
The key feature was the room service and the cleanliness. Credit where credit is due, my cabin attendant aaron went above and beyond, and made me feel like a vip. As i was effectively bed bound (due to slipping on the slimy floor in the restaurant) for a few days, i had to rely completely on room service for food and drink.
Whilst initially they actually tried to charge me for the room service, i explained had it not been for the fall caused by their staff, i could have got the food myself! As a result (and asking eight times to speak to the captain), it was conceded to not charge me for room service.
As a result, i have greater experience of the room service than most of the guests, and once again, those guys are beyond approach. So once again thank you to aaron and vincent for showing royal caribbean how it should be done!
Port Reviews
Southampton
Utter Chaos! They were telling passengers to go in one lane, yet later to move to another, There were people waiting hours to be processed, yet people coming in later were being sat at the front, and the staff were processing from the front, so those who came in later were being processed first!
Bayonne (Cape Liberty)
What where they thinking? They could have processed passengers before entering the port, we had been intensely scrutinised before we boarded the ship and had travelled directly to the us with no stops!
Instead they were extensively searching every passenger, had assigned the majority of staff to us citizens despite the majority being non us citizens. There are no facilities - it's basically a warehouse!
After 3 hours of dithering about, they finally realised they could speed up the process by opening all the bays to process the passengers.
Let's be clear, i have no problem them carrying out security checks, however the delays i mentioned were avoidable, and caused by staff incompetence.
I mean they made passengers wait not in their rooms but in assembly areas for some people four hours! Why couldn't they simply allow the passengers wait in their cabins until they were called?
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