Let me preface by saying that we go on cruises every year, the last 6 with our two small girls aged 4 and 6. First time with Royal Caribbean and the last. First the good. The ship itself (the main areas ie promenade) is very nice and quasi clean. They have a rock climbing wall and simulated surfing. Some of the nightly shows were good to very good (6 to 7.5/10). That’s about all the good things I can think of.

The food in the main dining room was mediocre to poor (ditto for all the food on the ship). The first night I ordered encrusted Salmon, it was salty beyond belief. The 2nd night the Chef had a feature which was supposed to be saffron cauliflower with some sort of fish. Dish came with a half of a roasted potato, the driest fish ever topped with salsa like spaghetti sauce (who puts tomato sauce on white fish?). When I inquired as to where my Saffron cauliflower was they apologized and said they had none so they substituted , without telling me (but this was the featured meal of the night I argued?). They brought me Salmon instead (dry) after one bite, we left and went upstairs to the buffet which had variety but lacklustre quality compared to EVERY cruise ship we had been on before (including the lowly Carnival which by the way had fabulous food).

On a couple of nights they had sushi, however as with the consistency of low quality they substituted smoked (maple) salmon in the sushi rolls paired with the wrong type of soya sauce which made the rolls taste super salty and inedible. They hid the tuna rolls under the counter because “they would go too fast” and so you had to know to ask for them. The majority of the food consisted of pork this or pork that, lots of rice dishes, the cheapest cuts of fish (Basa, Tilapia and unknown Chinese fish). If you saw shrimps they were the tiny canned ones which were very disappointing. Read more