We decided to take this cruise in August after being offered a great deal by KLM for a flight to the Middle-East even though we were just coming back from a cruise on the Voyager of the Seas on the Adriatic . We had always wanted to visit Israel and the Palestine so this was like a dream coming thru .

There was a 12 hours stopover in Amsterdam which meant that the embarkation on the Vision of the Seas had to be in the middle of the night . Even though it was very late and there more than 60 of us on the same situation , we were greeted with a smile by all the crew members we met on the ship . The embarkation process was easy and fast and we were offered help to bring our luggage to our cabin .

We had a late breakfast and we our first reaction was the same that we have had on the Voyager of the Seas 3 months earlier : breakfast is a major weakness for Royal Caribbean International , in fact it is the worst of the 10 cruise lines we have cruised with . It proved the same in The Windjammer and the Aquarius dining room : limited selection , lack of presentation and variable degree of cooking . This is surprising because lunch was comparable to other cruise lines while dining is a little above average . Read more