Adventure of the Seas Review

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Luke82580
First Time Cruiser • Age 40s

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Sail Date: Nov 2011
Cabin: Junior Suite

This will be a rather in depth review as I hope it will help both first time cruisers (like myself just a little over a week ago) and others who may or may not have been to these Islands before.

Arrived Puerto Rico without any problems. Puerto Rico was a lovely city. We didn't spend much time there but certainly could have. We just walked around Old San Juan. Collected luggage and walked outside and immediately found taxi to take us to Caribe Hilton. I had found a really good deal through expedia at the Caribe Hilton for $129 when typically it is around $244. Fair warning about this hotel - There are 2 sections. One is the main Hilton Hotel, the other is considered their "villas" which appeared to be a time share property. The room type I choose was a king ocean view. When we arrived and checked it we were given out room and directions on how to get there. This place is massive and the directions were terrible on how to find the room. We walked and walked and got lost and walked some more and finally found the room in the "villa" section. The building(s) in the villa section were typical vacation style property buildings and nothing fancy or of any resemblance to any Hilton I had stayed in. Upon arriving to the room I was surprise that we had a balcony room. Our options were for either King with oceanview or king with balcony. I choose the oceanview. We did not have an oceanview more like a bay view but we only had one night in the place so I didn't find any need to request a new room or complain about anything as truly there wasn't anything "wrong." The grounds are really nice and there are several bars/restaurants. We had 2 margaritas at the pool bar and the total was $25 so I imaging it would be very expensive to stay here for any length of time.

Embarkation day was a breeze. The lines were very very long however because we had been upgraded to a suite we were able to get into the priority line which was basically non existent so we walked right up to the counter and were able to board the ship. First impressions of the ship were good, very clean. We had dinner reservations at 7:15 but as of 6:45 one of our bags had not yet arrived to the room so we didn't have proper clothing for the dining room so we opted for the Windjammer the first night. It was good, nothing outstanding but nothing bad either. This was the only dinner we had in the Windjammer. The food in the dining room for dinner was outstanding. We didn't really know what to expect but we ate in the dining room every night after the first and there was always a variety and everything we had was just really good. Great Thanksgiving dinner as well!

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