My 9th cruise and 3rd on Royal Caribbean.

I booked this cruise on the spur of the moment as it was advertised as a "Come Dancing on Mariner of the Seas" cruise. I had just come off a Celebrity cruise in December and am about to go onto a Cunard cruise in April and wasn't really needing or planning to cruise again in January.

However, the hype about this cruise was too good to pass up and it was supposed to have a "first-ever" Latin dance championship competition on board as well as dance workshops by a famous Singapore dance studio which all passengers were supposed to be able to participate in. So I went on this cruise with only one purpose - to dance all the way. Unfortunately, that was just it - hype! The dance vendor hogged the largest dance floor for 2 out of the 4 nights for their own beginner level students leaving out the dozens of other very good dancers who were only "invited to view" but not allowed on the floor to dance. There were many dancing passengers who had come from all over Asia for this cruise - a large contingent from Indonesia, many from Singapore, another large group from Japan, some from Taiwan and Korea. All good dancers and all of us were left salivating outside the Lotus lounge unwelcome to participate Read more