Where to begin? I guess at the beginning. This will probably be a long review wanted to warn you before you started reading..

So, to start at the beginning that would be Parking. Not bad at all pretty convenient actually. If only Embarkation was such a breeze. It was a LONG wait. Since I had to use the LR My hubby and friends got on line first. I was told I was NOT able to catch up with them and needed to stand at the end of the line. Not 2 mins later a group came that had the rest of their group in the front of the line came and the same woman told me 1 person to wait at the end of the line allowed these 4 people to go and meet their group. I was a little annoyed at that. Finally I catch up to the rest of my group to wait 1.5 - 2hours to get on the ship. We arrived at the port around 12:30 ish and we arrived on board and directly to our room at 2pm. Although people on the boards mentioned that the Venetian would be opened for Lunch on Embarkation day we were told it WAS NOT opened. Could be that we didn't get on the ship in time. Off to the buffet we went. After we ate in the buffet and headed back to our room ,after searching and searching for a free table to eat at, Our luggage had arrived. Over all that process was relatively painless.

Next I would like to touch on the "FREESTYLE" dining. HATED IT! Unfortunately I am not an early bird especially on vacation so we were only able to obtain reservations one night in Salsas which was very good. But we got that on the last night on the cruise. The service in the Venetian was HORRID. After the 30-40 min wait for a table we were seated and the servers were not very attentive at all. We did not even receive water or bread for about 30 mins after being seated. I know service is different in "fancy' restaurants but that seemed too long to even get water. The servers helper kept apologizing for the servers attitude and rudeness. I appreciated the apology but I felt bad for the "helper". Okay its the first nite right... Lets assume they were "in the weeds" and we will give them the benefit of the doubt. 2nd nite in Venetian same issues.. long wait time bad service. Breakfast was even worse. Aqua had much better service we ate there most times after the Venetian fiascos. We did sit down at the Blue Lagoon is that what its called? To get "comfort" food one day and we waited over 30 mins for a server to come to the table next to us she said I will put this order in and be right back. We watched her put their order in and go to the other side of the cafe and clean unoccupied tables and 10 mins later still hadn't returned to take our order. Needless to say we left and didn't get our comfort food that nite. Next time we went we did get service. But the table next to us was delivered 3 plates of food that they didn't order. Actually they hadn't even placed an order yet. Unreal!!! Although the food was basically good. Not horrible but nothing to rave about either. The buffet was boring.. same food over and over. Read more