Here is my quick review from the Royal Caribbean Voyager 5/20 sailing to the Western Caribbean. This was my 8th cruise overall, 6th on RCCL and 2nd on the Voyager. I traveled with my husband (both of us mid 30's), my mother and my two sons (2.5 and 1 years old).

Departure on Friday May 20 - We traveled from near Albany, NY down to the Bayonne, NJ port easily by car within 3 hours. It was simple to find, easy to drop off bags/people and convenient parking. My husband took the shuttle bus back to the check-in terminal because it was raining, but it is within walking distance. We went through the metal detectors and checked in with the priority desk (because we are platinum members and had a suite), but I think it would have been easier in the regular lines. The person that checked us in was new (2nd day I believe) and had us filling out additional paperwork, even though it was already completed online beforehand. But shortly we were on our way to the ship via the shuttle bus.

Stateroom - We had a Royal Family Suite (cabin 9394) in the aft of the ship. It was ready before 1:00 PM. It is a nice cabin with lots of room to hold the five of us. It is not very "suite-like" though. Meaning that it doesn't look very pretty - basically like any other outside or inside rooms (not like the more upscale suites). But it does have a lot of storage room (a walk in closet), two bathrooms (one off the master bedroom with tub and one off the hall), a good size living area, nice size master bedroom with ample closet space, small 2nd bedroom but room for 4 single beds (including the pull-down beds - no TV though), table with chairs and a large balcony. My mother and oldest son stayed in the master bedroom (they had to share the king size bed since it doesn't break apart) and we took the smaller bedroom and put in a ship's pack-n-play for our youngest son with us. It all fit fine. The balcony is quite large with lots of chairs and a table. It is sort of divided but much larger than we ever had before. We got lots of sun back there too, but not a lot of wind to make it cooler on the hot days. I do have to say that after a couple days we noticed quite a lot of soot on the chairs. Our porter, Victor, did not clean them off (I don't think he ever went out on the balcony). But we didn't ask him too. We should have, but instead put towels down on the chairs we wanted to sit on. And the furniture on our balcony has certainly seen better days. Other balconies near us looked like they had newer furniture but I shouldn't complain at all since we were lucky to get this cabin. We could see easily into the balconies below us and the ones above us had a nice view of us, but that was fine. It was a hike to the elevators but with the amount of food we ate, we needed that. Overall we enjoyed the room with the extra space. The kids could sleep in the bedrooms while the adults stayed up later in the living room. It was hard to do that in a regular room. Read more