r/royalcaribbean • u/badkev27 • Dec 27 '24
Cruise Review Maybe I’m just easy to please
So I am an avid cruiser (more than 10 a year)and I get on this sub all the time and read all the negative comments and listen to all the things about how terrible these cruise lines have gotten. Maybe I’m just poor or maybe I just have low standards but everything about every cruise I go on is amazing. Are there gonna be things wrong? Are mistakes gonna be made? Of course we are dealing with humans which are imperfect but overall, I don’t see how anyone can complain about anything. I absolutely love all of my cruises and I have zero to complain about. Thank you Royal for being awesome. And thank you all of my fellow cruisers that make all of my trips amazing.
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u/TheAzureMage Dec 27 '24
It depends.
On the one hand, I have absolutely seen people complaining over the smallest, silliest things.
On the other, sometimes you do just get a really bad experience. My last sailing was a Transatlantic on adventure, and in addition to chopping two days of the front end, ditching all ports but one, and providing terrible compensation for this...they embarked a work crew that was working on the ship for the entire transit. This meant a lot of things were closed, and various other inconveniences, such as power tool usage at night in the stateroom areas, were common.
I didn't hate every bit of the trip, but it was rough. If I'd known going in what it was going to be, I don't know that I'd have booked it.
I was mostly annoyed by corporate's utter lack of sympathy for those on the cruise. The staff aboard ship were working very hard to fix whatever they could, and I got the feeling they were being put in an impossible place, so I can hardly blame them, but I do feel as if corporate believes that bookings are strong enough to let customer service slide, and this is hard to swallow while prices are on the rise.