I will start from the beginning. This was our 4th cruise..We have been on Carnival once, NCL twice and this was our 1st on RCL. I was a little skeptical with all the negative reviews especially with a lot of negative reviews about food. But I figured we would make the most of it and find out for ourselves. Checking in to Bayonne was a little chaotic, no order there at all and no one right there to ask amy thing,they were too busy running around.

The ship is beautiful. And this was our smoothest cruise. We were never able to get into Grande unless we wanted 9:15pm, so we never ate there, mainly because we didn't have reservations. We like to eat whenever we want. The complimentary restaurants you need reservations for. I do not like that at all. It should not be that way. They will ask you if you have one. One of them we were able to get it but we almost weren't able to.

The shows make reservations for also before the cruise. The food, we found the American Icon to be the best. We ate there 3 times and the service was excellent. Chops was also good, even though it's a specialty restaurant you still will have to pay for some things, small shrimp was an extra $10 and aged steak was an extra $21. You already pay for this restaurant and to be charged extra is ridiculous. Read more