Empress of the Seas Review

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Food could have been better!

Review for the Western Caribbean Cruise on Empress of the Seas
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dfrey1957
2-5 Cruises • Age 60s

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Sail Date: Dec 2017

Over all it was an OK cruise, we have had much better. I will say that the weather the first two days sucked pretty bad. Raining when we boarded and 6 t0 9 foot waves the second day. 3/4 of the boat were sick in their cabins and my wife and I were two of them. Day 3 was in Cozumel and it was a nice day. Day 4 was in Costa Maya and it was nice there as well. our last day was at sea and it was beautiful. The issue we had was the food just was not what we have gotten use to on other cruise lines like NCL and Princes. In fact I would have to rate it poor. Lukewarm soups and meals. That's why we go on these cruises for the food ands shows. This is the smallest and oldest ship in Royal Caribbean's fleet. The staff did a great job and were always upbeat. The staterooms were clean and the hotel staff did a super job making us feel welcome. We looked forward to getting in the hot tubs but with only 3 on board you couldn't squeeze in and when we finally did they were just like the soup lukewarm!. The pool and pool decks were nice and the bar staff did a nice job getting around to serve drinks and pick up empty glasses. The evening shows were good not great but we enjoyed them. If I were to book another trip with RC I would suggest going with a newer and larger ship.

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Cabin Ocean View

The cabin was nice and clean. No complaints and the staff did a nice job.

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Cozumel

Took a taxi around the island, it was too cold to swim for us Floridians!! LOL Water was beautiful and temp was OK just cool air and we were not prepared for a swim.

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