I have been on many other cruises, and this was my 3rd on Royal Caribbean. I got married on a RC cruise ship (Adventure) in 2004. I was disappointed. While I had a great time vacationing with my family, and the cruise itinerary was great, I was very disappointed in many aspects of the cruise.

1. The food was underwhelming. The Windjammer is way too small to accomodate 4900 passengers. There were times that no new people were allowed in to the Windjammer due to lack of seats. There was very little change in the menu at the Windjammer. Same things every single day and it seemed everything was cooked with a ton of MSG because we all got headaches after eating meals.

2. We booked this cruise for the activities such as the North Star, roller skating, bumper cars, IFly, rock climbing wall, basketball, etc (we brought our 11 year old son and 12 year old daughter). Many of these activities were only open for 2-3 hours a day! And many of them required reservations. If you didn't have a reservation by day 2 of the cruise, you were not able to do certain activities. They really should staff the activities department better so that everyone can try them out! We finally were able to get a reservation to the North Star, but we had to leave an island 2.5 hours early to go on it. When we got there, there was a technical difficulty and the North Star was not working. Very frustrating! Read more