RC Dancers

We had the Key on Allure a couple of months ago. We arrived at the scheduled time of 11:00 am and were among the last to join the key group. The key group was called after Suite guests and Diamond Plus.

Well, we have been on all of the Oasis class ships and previously I had marveled that the only time the ships felt crowded was trying to get an elevator after the shows finished. Thank you for letting me know that this is normal for inaugural season cruises from the states. I will avoid in the future. We had done inaugural season cruises in the Mediterranean and they did not seem to be this crowded.

I have to say that the food is probably the best of any Royal caribbean cruise we have been on. In particular, meat dishes have been very moist and tender.

I am just trying to report what I see, but it could be that the government of the Peoples Republic of China’s relaxation of their Covid policies last week have filled this ship at the last moment. I do not know this as fact. It is purely speculation on my part.

We are on fixed early dining and no one showed us to our table. We had to find it on our own. We were on Allure of the Seas about a month ago with 5,400 or so fellow passengers and things were much more pleasant. We hope things get better.

This is our sixth cruise since the startup. I have never been on a ship that is so crowded. The MDR line last night went back to the elevators and wrapped completely around. You can’t find a table in the Windjammer. The ship would be understaffed at “normal” full capacity, but with so many people, service is lacking. I wish that I could make a happy report, but we just told our friends to try to cancel their booking on this ship.

Thank you all, we will let our friend know.

Our friend from the UK would like to cruise on the Divina. She cannot book from the US website so she has to book through the US website. She would like to share a cabin with her friend who is a US Citizen. Does anybody know if this combo is possible to book?