Royal Caribbean Symphony of the Seas Cruise Reviews

We're a couple celebrating our first anniversary and also my birthday. This is the first cruise of a B2B. Since we're coming from outside the US, we arrived in Miami a couple of days early and stayed in the downtown area. This is our third cruise, all of them in Oasis-class ships (and, hence, also in Royal Caribbean). On boarding day, we took an Uber to the port and arrived at around 10:30am, ...

it was my wife's first cruise at 57 and we needed to travel from Florida with specific dates due to her very demanding job... good past experiences with RC and big ship opportunity made symphony of the seas an obvious and accurate choice. I wanted her to have the best vacation possible, so I booked a suite with the ultimate drink package, the key program, and a night in Miami just before the ...

For everyone's experience is different..... I can tell you that they don't take care of their passengers as well as you think they do. They have discriminated with passengers multiple times. Including retired veterans they have targeted. I solemnly refer to the staff. And even though you can ask they're gonna deny it a million times but I've seen that happen quite a few times on the boat. Do ...

To give you an idea of the perspective we’re writing this review; we’ve done 14 cruises across 3 lines, with the majority on Royal Caribbean. We keep trying different cruise lines and have cruises schedule on Carnival and Virgin in the coming months. Royal isn’t prefect, we recently had a poor experience on Ovation of the Seas, but the Oasis class ships seem to always knock it out of the park for ...

I am not the kind to write reviews, but after my experience on this ship, I feel it necessary to inform other consumers. We booked this trip and several months later, Royal offered me a marketing proposal to upgrade my room to a VIP suite for TWO people, and I was staying in the room alone. I did not challenge this because these were the rules, so I paid for the double fee required for the ...

I traveled with my wife and child (6 year old). We had a cabin with an ocean view balcony. We had the 8pm traditional dining. We also had a 100 dollar on board credit. Once we boarded the ship, we realized in the app, they had changed our dining to my time (which includes a wait time), we immediately responded to the main dining room and spoke with the crew member who stated for over 45 ...

This is my 8th cruise. First time on the Symphony. The bad first - The schooner lounge / Pianist was single handedly the most dissapointing aspect of any cruise I’ve ever been on. It was like an 80 year old man who literally followed an IDENTICAL script every single night. Un-changing, no request folder or bucket, no interaction, boring/monotone and like I said, same exact never-heard before songs ...

This was mine and my husband's first cruise on Royal Caribbean. We sailed on Carnival Ecstacy in December 2018 and Celebrity Equinox in July 2019. Overall we enjoyed this vacation but there were several pros and cons I'd like to share. First of all the number one selling point were the shows onboard and we were not disappointed. My favorites were the ice skating show 1977, Hiro the ...

We joined a large family trip with lots of kids and three generations. In short, this is probably a great cruise for a large group and for families but our observations were that this is not the cruise ship for adult couples...at least not one who are expecting a more traditional cruise experience. To start, embarkation in Miami is total chaos. It is amazing to think that Royal Caribbean ...

Embarkation - A little overwhelming. Very busy and very rushed but also, very efficient. We were on board by 12:10pm. First Impressions - Wow! Pictures and YouTube videos just don’t do it justice. Beautiful ship that shows no signs of aging. The Royal Promenade was a mad house and trying to make specialty dining reservations at one of the desks was chaos. Didn’t seem well organized and we ...