Riviera Review

4.5 / 5.0
782 reviews

Didn't live up to expectations

Review for the Caribbean Cruise on Riviera
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Seasabroad
6-10 Cruises • Age 70s

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Sail Date: Mar 2017
Cabin: Concierge Level

Chose this cruise as I wanted to experience the Caribbean on a smaller ship which I'd been told was a step up from Celebrity. Missed first island due to returning to Miami as someone had to be lifted off. Service slow in main restaurant and jaques as an issue over French onion soup!! Food good in speciality restaurants. Cooking lessons very good. Some of the trips were boring. Rain forest, down as strenuous but people who could hardly walk went on them. So didn't go far!! Driver entertaining. Swim with stingrays fabulous. There were always 3-4 other huge cruise ships in port so places full of tourists difficult to get seats at restaurants! Entertainment soso. Musicians were good but oh I would have loved to hear something more lively and fun at times. Chairs outside needed to be cleaned out more regularly pills and food down the sides. Coffee place awful, too small. Pool, twice was murky and I wouldn't go in it. Staff lovely but never seemed to see same person twice. Very disappointing not worth the extra cost over celebrity. Last day at Nassau trip cancelled due to seas, so only got 3/5 trips booked. So no alternative as all the other trips had left. Atlantis centre was $168 each to get in!!! .$42 for aquarium!! Don't bother. Nothing said about cost before we went so came back to ship. All the islands sell diamonds and rare! Tanzanite. Pirate museum not very good. Didn't live up to hype. Going on Regent hope it's better as sister company!

Cabin Review

Concierge Level

Cabin A1

Never met our cabin attendants. My husband did on embarkation when I has having a pedicure. Cabin always clean and tidy just never saw the invisible man! Thought he might have come an introduced himself. Shower heads needed to be cleaned. I washed them. Bathroom great size and liked having a bath with a shower in it too. The shower on its own was too small.

Port Reviews

St. Barts

So busy with huge cruise ships in, walked to beach which was ok.

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