This cruise is the perfect complement to the 9 night cruise which does Aruba, Bonaire, and Curacao. Book them back to back and you have 14 nights and 15 days of great times. The cruise ship is out of Miami Florida. We booked a Jr Suite, it was the first time on any Royal Ship, we were in a suite. IT WAS INCREDIBLE. The room was very spacious, the balcony was big enough to do whatever you would like to do and relax. The walk in closet is oversized and clean. Our Stateroom attendant (Moose) was so great. Talk about taking care of his guests, Moose was flat out a perfect host. The Jr Suite was meticulous and clean from top to bottom. All kinds of room to store clothing. The only minus was the amount of slate RCL uses for mattresses. I am thinking only 2 inches slate with about 1/2 inch of foam which tempered the great room. Aside from that negative, the positive was how RCL keeps its cleaning staff so happy is a wonder. Moose was exceptional at what he did. This was our 11th cruise on RCL and I cannot remember any crew member better at keeping a room spotless.

We did not do any excursions. We actually wanted to spend as much time as possible on the ship. The Navigator is a bit older, but it is still a awesome ship. We were just on this ship a few weeks ago for the 9 night itinerary. There were a few changes - some positive and some negative so hopefully Royal will look at this feedback and attempt to tweak things for the better.

The Dining Room experience changed a bit. Royal was implementing some changes in there. We experienced those changes on Oasis of the Seas. The result was it took an 1 1/2 hours just to get dinner delivered. I spoke with our waiter, assistant head waiter, and head of the dining facilities as well as the senior manager of the dining facility. In every case, our concerns were heard. I saw the same thing on OASIS, it should not take over 1.5 hours to get an appetizer and dinner to the table. To their credit, on the last night, we were able to have a complete meal in an 1.5 hour. The concern is just two weeks ago there was never a time problem getting dinner once ordered within an hour. I would suggest someone at RCL's head office who is the MBA working on squeezing a few more sheckles out of the dinning experience, to take a hard look at the supposed operational efficiency they believe they are achieving . Perhaps getting out of the ivory tower and spending some time in the dining hall observing and asking questions may allow one to see there maybe other ways to achieve "cost efficiency". We saw the same problem on OASIS and now the problem may infect Navigator. Everyone on Navigator tried their best to correct the issue, I was quite impressed with the effort. But these get professionals do follow orders and sometimes those orders are not so good. Read more