I am a big big big cruise ship person, I can spit out specs on most major cruise lines ship stats in an instant. Since I know that, I am well aware of how small the Majesty is compared to the modern mega ships I have been on (3 times RCCL Navigator OTS and 1 Carnival Valor). The Majesty was a very nice surprise however, I expected it to feel like a teeny ship with that old forgotten motor lodge rundown look. It however is not, while 73K tons isn't huge now, it is a very big ship, with plenty of open public spaces and flat screens everywhere. The ship got a refurb in 07 and looks good in its new splendor. I liked how the staterooms all had flat panels and don't see why people where complaining about their placement, you can't sit anywhere but the bed and there the viewing is optimal, my cabin (ocean view 3016) was well suited to it. The cabins look like they do on Navigator it's just lacking in width by about a foot or 2 and of course no sitting area (so about 4 feet shorter), which I missed when having or meeting friends in the room. The bathroom is small but not like you are incapable of using it, they would benefit from navigators actual doors vs shower curtains so they didnt try to go with you or stick to you (which the cruise director even made fun of) The water was always nice and hot and the room was very clean, my cabin steward Juan was great and always on top of ice and even cleaned out all my light up royal cups and did fun things with the umbrellas and the towel animals. Juan also figured out my schedule quick and was virtually invisible but always greeting me by name and letting my friend know where I was. I must say this ship had the nicest service, everyone had a smile and was social, even friends cabin attendants knew my name and everyone always would joke and smile and seemed genuinely happy, which is really great to see.

Royal added a Johnny Rockets which is a welcome addition since it was on NOTS and the windjammer is bigger and newer. I would like to note, I had no idea there was an identical buffet line forward of where you enter wind jammer, and keep walking forward if the buffet is crowded when you enter the second one all the way forward. On the subject of food, its not bad but had been going down since I first cruised back in 07 on Navigator which was 1st in the fleet for food service. RCCL has gone down every year since. I am not one to say boo hoo no lobster because I don't think on a short cruise nor one where many first time cruisers who don't think its standard to have it would care, I shore didn't. Food in windjammer was cafeteria good, but nothing I ate was bad, it could however be cited that instead of having more of some stuff having a better version of it would be better (think thicker bacon and better chicken breast vs the flat stringy stuff we got) The dining room food was good and the service in there was great, we were at table 15 with Geraldine as our waiter, she was the absolute best, fun, social and quick, she knew everything we wanted and figured us out in 1 night, we never had to ask for a thing (from warm butter, rolls and soda and fruity liquor drinks) which were already there when we arrived every night. Geraldine did an excellent job anticipating our needs to the utmost extent. The food itself was very good, and seems like they run the same menu on every ship. I do however need to say portions are a bit on the small side, but you can order as many dishes as you want.

In public areas you can tell this ship isn't a new build as there is no huge 8 story plus sun lit atrium but the 4 story one we had was great and looked very pretty, it was where most things where located. I noted it odd though mostly being a person of new ships with totally different design, that no elevator but the forward ones served all floors, and the aft ones had only 1 servicing the crown. I assume I find this odd because all the new ships pretty much have a for and aft elevator and no middle ones like this ship. I found the centrium els to be under used mainly because they served very few decks people wanted to be. Side note also is, do not overload the elevators, tell people sorry but wait, they have overload alarms (and wont move) and euro passengers seem to think it's ok to just run right in and push you further in, use your hand in the 5 stop form so they understand, I figured that out from another passenger who got good result putting up his hand and saying "stop" The ship in other places was great, I also must agree with reviewers that the crown lounge still looks dated and could use a wrap around bar and a stage and high tables to make it more modern. While on upper deck I must also note, I knocked the ship down a point for the set up of the deck 11 sunning/ track deck. The track doesn't exist, its not painted on the deck like any other ship I've seen and it would be impossible to traverse with all of the deck chairs, they should I think have put it up on what would be deck 12 forward around the skylights for windjammer, while not huge it would be clear up there since deck chairs don't dominate the area as bad. I know this next bit is silly cosmetic thing but if they but the sloping glass in the back trailing off the Viking crown lounge on both sides to cover the sports deck, it would make the ship look more modern as well as fully enclose the bridge wings, it would look more modern and pretty, the ship is beautiful though as is. Read more