We were a group of 32 people that were all going together as I was getting married in St. Thomas. Keep in mind that we were all happy with our vacation. It was a very fun week. We had fun on our cruise and everyone was in good spirits. That being said, many of us would not be using Royal Caribbean again and by the end of the week we were pretty frustrated with the ship. I am going to start with the really bad parts....

Dinner in the dinning room took FOREVER (3 hours). not worth it. better things to do. Food was mediocre at best. It says food was 24 hours. But unless you wanted pizza from a stale pizza station or to pay for roomservice in the middle of the night then you are out of luck. Also, the ONLY buffet closes between 5pm-6:30pm. So don't even try to get an early dinner. Although I will say the food in the buffet was excellent with lots of variation. After the 3rd night we ended up going for dinner at the buffet. We couldn't be bothered to go back to the dining room. Dress code is NOT enforced. So if you'd like to go to dinner every night in shorts, this cruise is for you! We were told to bring very specific clothes for the dinner. Customer service TOLD US that if we were not appropriately dressed that we would be turned away from the dinning room. Well, there was one dinner when the person next to me wore a sarong over her bathing suit. What a waste to have to pack al these nice dinner clothes if they weren't even mandatory. All the fun activities took place during dinner. so you missed them all. So many fun things took place at 7pm or 7:30pm. But because the buffet only opened at 6:30pm you were never done eating in time. Buffet closes early so make sure you eat!!! I couldn't believe the buffet was always closed at like 9:30. The only thing available after this was some pizza from a pizza station. Orange juice was always warm at breakfast. They poor a bunch of glasses and leave them on the bar for people to grab. who knows how long they were actually sitting there. Every morning it was warm.

The bars took forever to get service. A lot of people we were with would get two drinks at once so they wouldn't have to go back and wait. Unless you waived your room key (seapass) in the air like at some night club the bartender just ignored you. Read more