Majesty of the Seas Review
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We just arrived back from our much anticipated June 12 - 16, 2006, sailing on the Majesty. We had a group of 41 that went together and I had planned this trip for a year. We had a lot of first time cruisers onboard and they had a wonderful time on the Majesty of the Seas.
EMBARKATION: We were the first ones to board the ship due to a couple in our party getting married onboard prior to leaving Miami. We were instructed to be at the terminal and ready to check-in by 10:30 AM. As soon as the ship was cleared, we boarded at almost 11:00 AM. There were a LOT of people already in line behind us and even though we boarded first, they let those in line follow behind. (So I guess the afternoon boarding time they suggest isn't always adhered to -- which is good to know for the future!) There were absolutely no problems with embarkation.
The only hitch was with the wedding, we were given papers stating that we could go to our staterooms early and change for the wedding which was at 1:00 PM. I don't think they told the room stewards this because they were somewhat rude to us when we tried to get in before the scheduled 1:00 PM room-ready time. They kept shutting the heavy roll-back hallway doors on us, but that is my only complaint with the boarding early because our rooms were definitely clean and ready for us. (PS. In case you're interested, the wedding fees were about $1,000 and covered a wedding coordinator, a fresh flower bouquet for the bride, and a wedding cake. The wedding coordinators were extremely helpful and friendly to the whole group. The cake -- UGH!!! I have a hard time turning down cake, but that cake was BAD! The frosting was buttercream, but tasted only like BUTTER and had very little sugar in it and had the same consistency. The cake part was the consistency of cornbread which is just WEIRD! I think it may have been frozen for awhile, it seemed stale.) OH! One other thing. There were hitches in the wedding -- like announcements being broadcasted in the middle of a song. The song was then stopped and when it was restarted at the end of the announcement, the coordinator accidently hit the eject button on the player half-way through and had to restart it... AGAIN.