We have cruised about 20 times before—mostly ocean cruises with a variety of cruise lines and also 4 river cruises. While there were some good aspects of cruising from Baltimore on Grandeur of the Seas, the negatives outweighed the positives.

Boarding—went smoothly until we reached the Windjammer for lunch. They were out of silverware and food was running low. We found out—a day or two later—that there had been a sanitary inspection of the ship that caused the problem—but nothing was mentioned about that when we went to lunch upon boarding. Then when we reached our cabin, the bed had been made up as a double when we requested two singles. In talking to the cabin steward we were told very emphatically that we had requested the double—obviously RCCL had not gotten our request for two singles to the ship.

We were traveling with two others—while not handicapped, they had been assigned to a handicapped room. Their room was large (and very impersonal). The main problem they had was that the emergency system was accidentally set off (a shortage in the wiring?) five different times and they were disturbed once in the middle of the night and another time while one of them was taking a shower. They do not believe they set the system off. Read more