Independence of the Seas Review

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First & Probably Last Time With Royal Caribbean

Review for the Western Caribbean Cruise on Independence of the Seas
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kbset
2-5 Cruises • Age 40s

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Sail Date: Jan 2014

My husband and I did B2B cruises on the Independence of the Seas, but 90% of what you’re about to read is about our experience on the 6 night cruise. First, we did the 6 night Western Caribbean that left on January 26, 2014, and then we did the 8 night Eastern Caribbean that left right after, on February 1, 2014. Our 6 night cruise was beyond awful, and even though, our 8 night cruise was better, it still was not the greatest. But for being on the same ship, there were a few major differences between the 6 night and the 8 night, which you will read towards the end.

To start off, on our 6 night cruise our room was absolutely filthy...I took some Clorox wipes (as people have mentioned to take) to wipe down door handles, light switches and things like that, and when I wiped down the floor of our shower I used 5 wipes and they were completely black as if I was wiping down a dirty car! It was horrifying and disgusting! Maybe I'm a weirdo for wiping down the shower floor, but I'm sure glad I did! Our room smelled extremely musty and when we ran out of kleenex or toilet paper, our room steward would never refill them so we always had to call and have some brought to our room. 2 of the 6 couples that we sat with at dinner also had the same problem with their room steward not refilling their toilet paper or kleenex.

Our room steward was lazy to say the least...there was a long shelf on top of the closet where we would put our souvenirs, and every single night our room steward would take a bunch of clean towels (for when he would clean our room the following day) and shove them up on the shelf pushing all of our souvenirs towards the back! When we took the towels off the shelf my husband got up on a chair to see if any of our things got pushed way to the back and to our surprise not only were our things shoved to the back but we also found a pair of pajamas, a hair brush, a t-shirt, and a disposable camera, none that were any of ours, that were also pushed to the back because of what the room steward was doing!!!

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