Enchantment of the Seas Review

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oshunchild
First Time Cruiser • Age 40s

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Sail Date: Nov 2013
Traveled with children

My family had looked forward to this vacation and cruise with RCCL for several months. The cruise started off horribly when I went to purchase a soda package for my teen. The poolside beverage worker on the right side entrance of the Wind Jammer Café was repeatedly disrespectful and rude towards me, when I requested to purchase a souvenir cup several times. I was also overcharged for a Coco Loco drink on the Coco Cay beach. It clearly had a different price on my receipt and the attendant tried to double dip on a tip and did not tell me that it was already included and I would have paid $12.78 instead of $8.50 actual cost. my receipt said $8.25,and I found this out when I checked my room charges on Sunday night. When I got home there was another extra charge of $6.16 on my card that was not on my final bill before we left the ship. I called RCCL and they told me that we used the mini bar and we had not! The RCCL agent was very nice and explained that it will be adjusted.

The food in the dining room was extremely salty, tasteless, cold, processed and tasted like Piccadilly cafeteria food. The bread every night did not seem fresh and was very hard. It took almost two hours every night to eat and we missed shows when we scheduled our dining time at 5:45. The head waiter at table 488 who never gave us his name spoke down to me as if I had no idea of what the entrée descriptions meant, although I am a classically trained chef and a physician who has traveled to 16 countries and he should not assume that the guest are not knowledgeable. He also asked us repeatedly to give "excellent" ratings on the guest questionnaire, even though the assistant waiter was rude the first night and both seemed to try to accommodate us and improve on the last night. The food was less than palatable for human consumption every night in the My Fair lady dining room and I had to send my appetizer and entrée back the 1st and 2nd nights. They recycled a chicken and mushroom dish in the Windjammer café for two days and it was renamed every time. We ordered room service and it took two hours to get to our room and the pizza and turkey and Swiss cheese Panini was ice cold and hard. We were given the excuse by room service that my stateroom was too far on the other side of the ship. At 1:30 on the first day we went to view our room and we where happy to see our luggage there so quick, but upon inspection I had dried blood stains on my pillow case from a previous patron, which is clearly a health hazard. My stateroom attendant had just come aboard the Enchantment Of The Seas. So, apparently the previous attendant did not clean the room properly. But, we were happy he cleaned our room nicely everyday.

My 16 year old had nothing to do from day one of the cruise. The teen room was not continuously manned or attended to. When they were there, the agent felt the need to tell my child and other teens that cameras will be watching then, so that they would not steal or break anything because the last cruise the teens were "rowdy"! So, as a result of them being extremely rude, detached and with very little activities offered, she stayed away from the teen section for the duration of the cruise.

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