Just returned on the Grandeur of the Seas as it limped back to Baltimore. The ship is not quite what I am used to. While it was in pretty good shape, the layout was different. On most ships, as you walk around you pass the lounges with music going on, etc. The lounges on this ship were tucked at the ends and you never saw them unless you were looking.

We thought the food was just passable. Had one good steak and then it was downhill from there. Out waiter was not good. He seemed to cater to those drinking wine and we were not drinking. It is usually customary for your waiter to announce to you the activities going on for the evening and breakfast. He did not tell us about the Chocolate Buffet and I did not have time to read the Compass, so we missed it. The second night I ordered another of the (good) steaks. They substituted something that was supposed to be a New York Strip. It was mostly grizzle and was very pale looking. Bad, Bad, Bad. The food in the WindJammer was the same, day in and day out. Since we were practically ignored by out waiter, we decided to eat in the Windjammer the last two nights. The people up there were more attentive than our waiter. I talked to lots of people and they had great people in the dining room. We just got unlucky.

There was a lot of congested type coughing going on on the ship and of course, my husband and I were unlucky again and returned home quite sick with some type of virus. Read more