This was our 3rd cruise with Royal Caribbean and it may well be our last. It possibly could be this ship but almost every part of our cruise was about half as good as we have experienced on the other two cruises. The service might even be as low as you can get. This ship next year sails from our home port of Brisbane and I would strongly suggest that anybody booked on this ship pay a little extra and fly to Sydney and sail on RCL's larger ships. The difference in quality would far outway the cost of the airfare as my initial investigation shows that the price of a similar cruise on the larger ships is the same. This ship must be for RCL to preform training on as that was all the crew seemed to be, trainees. This ship itself is tired, run down and I was told has been sold and is just serving out it's last days.
We boarded in Singapore and it was a mess. Now I don't completely blame the crew for this issue because many passengers had not done as instructed and prepared documents due to the visa requirements of our ports. In fact it was that much of a mess that a bottle of duty free scotch that I planned to get stored as we boarded ended up on board with us in our cabin as we never went through a security point to declare it.
We had booked our dinner times online more than month in advance for each day of the cruise. Making sure that we got early times on see days and later times on days we were in port. Our first night we showed up at our booked time and they had not record of it. This was despite me having a booking in out online RCL calendar. The lady at the dinning room basically did not believe I had booked and I ended up telling her I would bring the calendar to show her, which I did on every subsequent night as they seemed to loose our booking each night.