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5 days at sea is boring!!!

Review for a Hawaii Cruise on Radiance of the Seas

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Specialktou
2-5 Cruises • Age 70s

Loved the Hawaii portion of the itinerary. After a great time in the islands, we headed out for 5 days of cold, cloudy weather. Not the fault of RC, but just the same, plans for swimming and sunning were dead on arrival. All of that aside, no one on board seemed to know the schedule. I asked what night is formal night, no one knew, not even the customer service desk! This was was our ...
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Sail Date: May 2019

Cabin Type: Ocean View Balcony


Excuse after excuse

Review for a Hawaii Cruise on Ovation of the Seas

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kirby31098
10+ Cruises • Age 60s

From the time ROyal Caribbean changed the itinerary conveniently 59 days before sailing, to the chaos created in baggage claim at disembarking, the most common words from ships staff was “We apologize”. The ship board staff constantly had to make excuses and apologize for numerous situations they had difficulty dealing with. AVOID this ship......while the ship itself is marvelous and a great ...
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Sail Date: May 2019

Cabin Type: Ocean View with Large Balcony


Incompetent or didn't care, Hard to tell

Review for a Hawaii Cruise on Ovation of the Seas

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dacusg
10+ Cruises • Age 70s

We have cruised on RCI before and have had very few problems. This one however was a nightmare. Booked day 1 Honolulu depart at 11:00pm 2 Kailua Kona 9am to 6pm 3 Kilaeua Volcano 12:01 to 1:00am 3Napoli coast 12:00pm to 4:00pm day 4&5 Maui 9am to 5pm next days 6-10 cruising day 11 Victoria BC 9:00am to 8:00pm 12 Vancouver 6:00am. What we got Days 1&2 Honolulu (left Honolulu at 5:00pm on 2nd ...
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Sail Date: May 2019

Cabin Type: Grand Suite with Large Balcony - 1 Bedroom


Ship is beautiful but terrible itineraries and food

Review for a Hawaii Cruise on Ovation of the Seas

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mrneva
6-10 Cruises • Age 40s

The other reviewers of this cruise have basically said it all. The itinerary change was super disappointing. We were so looking forward to going to the big island and seeing the volcano. Then RCI just axed the stop completely. At the Lahaina, Maui stop, tendering was delayed due to rough sea. Everybody got up early wanted to get off the ship but was not able to so that's why all the public ...
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Sail Date: May 2019

Traveled with children


Disappointing

Review for a Hawaii Cruise on Ovation of the Seas

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patcee101
10+ Cruises • Age 70s

Chose this cruise because of the itinerary but that didn’t work out so well. Bad planning on behalf of RCI resulted in multiple itinerary changes and just too much confusion for passengers and crew alike. We haven’t cruised with RCI for probably ten years during which we have favoured Princess and after this cruise with RCI I believe we made the right decision. We are not fussy eaters nor do we ...
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Sail Date: May 2019

Cabin Type: Ocean View Balcony


Not the best RCL experience

Review for a Hawaii Cruise on Ovation of the Seas

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weirdo
6-10 Cruises • Age 30s

I haven't been on a Royal Caribbean cruise for a while (5 years) and was disappointed with this service. I wanted to "fly" and was super excited to go on the iFLY attraction - which was why we chose this ship. This allowed me to float in a wind tunnel, which was a great experience. However be advised that you need to book this attraction ASAP or else risk not being able to try it at all. You ...
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Sail Date: May 2019

Cabin Type: Ocean View Balcony


Huge disappointment

Review for a Transpacific Cruise on Ovation of the Seas

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angeluvshorses
2-5 Cruises • Age 50s

This was meant to be an aniversary present for my husband. We expected to see some of Hawaii but the itinary was changed several times before the sailing. We sat in Oahu for a survey instead of cruising. They cancelled all our prebooked shore excursions leaving us with a breif stop in Maui. If you wanted to shop great if not disapointing. It was just a really long boat trip from Hawaii to ...
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Sail Date: May 2019

Cabin Type: Ocean View Balcony


Ovation Hawaii cruise -what a mightmare

Review for a Hawaii Cruise on Ovation of the Seas

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lifetimecuiser
10+ Cruises • Age 70s

We wanted to go back to Hawaii to visit the Arizona Memorial and visit the islands again. However, before this cruise even started there were problems. The Arizona Memorial is closed and will be for some an undisclosed amount of time. They are doing construction around the memorial that will keep it closed for awhile. But that wasn't the main reason for this review. This was our 35th cruise and ...
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Sail Date: May 2019

Cabin Type: Ocean View Balcony


Great ports, sea days a bit challenging

Review for a Transpacific Cruise on Radiance of the Seas

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rickb13405
10+ Cruises • Age 70s

This was our first cross ocean repositioning cruise. The opportunity to visit Sydney/New Zealand again, see French Polynesia for the 1st time and wind up in Honolulu was the attraction overcoming the twelve sea days. Had prepared for stormy weather in New Zealand, but were surprised by the rainy, windy weather most of the way to Tahiti. Sea days from Bora Bora to Hawaii were sunny and warm ...
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Sail Date: April 2019

Cabin Type: Grand Suite


1090 is a horrible cabin location and VOOM critique

Review for a Transpacific Cruise on Radiance of the Seas

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1olpony
10+ Cruises • Age 60s

Trans-Pacific cruise as ships relocated to US Northwest. Normal RCI quality, i.e. excellent food and quality staff. We we disappointed that Rita’s restaurant has been closed as we used to enjoy sitting out eating guacamole / chips and sharing the grande margarita with friends (it would be nice to be able to get a pitcher of margaritas for sharing but bartender thought it was mitigate ...
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Sail Date: April 2019

Cabin Type: Ocean View Balcony


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