I paid a significant amount of money to have the Royal Suite so I could give my mother and father a real treat on the cruise. The Royal Suite experience was billed as a 5 star experience which I stupidly as it turned out interpreted to mean the equivalent of a 5 star hotel experience.
To start the trip we flew Emirates Business Class from Brisbane to Singapore at a cost of some many thousand dollars and then stayed for 3 days before the cruise left at Raffles Hotel in Singapore. This was a truly 5 star experience at a costs similar to that charged by Royal Caribbean for the Royal Suite.
Perhaps the marketing people at Royal Caribbean should stay at Raffles Hotel before they have the hide to describe what they offer to the public as a 5 Star Experience. Don’t get me wrong perhaps my expectations were too high but they only arose from Royal Caribbean’s sales/call centre staff and the Royal Caribbean website.