Kcjarvis

Wait did Radiance get a flowrider????

Thank you for your review. I noticed on your cabin crawl one of your pictures looked like a promenade view. What deck was this on and what did you think of it?

 

 

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@mpoole3 - Your thoughts???

Thank you for your review. I was on Adventure in the Royal Suite and it was the worst cruise I have taken for some of those reasons and a few more. I thought I was the only one. I sat down with the guest services manager regarding some issues and he agreed with many of them. I personally have sworn off Adventure.

 

 

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Thanks for letting us visit during the cabin crawl

I made the kool kids list!?!? Outstanding live blog review Mr. Jarvis! I feel like I was in that grand suite more than my own cabin!

That means alot coming from the #1 RCL Blogger - Thanks!!!!!

 

Then The Quest!!!!!! Team Number 2 Captains!!!!!

 

 

FACT CHECK - TEAM 2 Captains - The winning team!!!!!!!

The WIFI was brutal on this ship. Not only was it slow and prone to drops, I couldn't log into my C&A account while onboard. As soon as I turned on 4G in Bayonne I could log in.

Sorry to hear - that wasn't my experience. Guess I was hogging all the bandwidth

Summary

Cabin – The Grand Suite was in great condition

Suite Attendant – Very Good – Jackie did a great job cleaning up from all the parties I had. He received a nice tip in addition to the pre-paid.

Cruise Director – Fair -Chris???? – Did a nice job with The Quest, but I never saw him, heard his announcements or his last name.

Concierge – Hugo – No Grade – Did a great job filling in for the sick Sucel. I didn’t need any of his services

Diamond Concierge – Chris D – OK – I received no Diamond Plus welcome letter, tour sign-up sheets, cookies or my 3 welcome gifts. I guess my status is really Pre-Gold like the website says. When I complained, Chris sent a bottle of champagne to the cabin. Nice Touch

Internet Service – Very Good – Best non O3B Voom service Ihave ever had - Periscope, Skype video, iMessage, Facetime, Good client vpn andMobile Iron VPN worked. Netflix, Hulu,YouTube and Slingbox worked after 30 seconds of buffering.

Food – (Subjective) – Mixed – Great job with the Caribbean night in the Windjammer. Slow service and average food in Chops. Great service and great food in Giovanni’s - Bring back the Veal Chop and the old mud pie!!!!!!

Room service – Very Good – Took 45 mins to arrive, but thequality and taste was very good

Luggage Delivery – My suitcase didn’t arrive by 8pm, so I went down to security. When I got down there my bag and 300 other bags were just sitting there. When I inquired, the security guy said,” Take it, there are no restricted items in it.” I responded,” then why wasn’t it delivered to my cabin?” His response – Blank Stare

Bar Service – Bars are woefully understaffed with all of the drink packages. Impossible to get a drink in the VCL at nights

Misc - Fresh out of dry dock, I was surprised at how manyelevator buttons were not working.

Crew shout outs – Freddy in Giovanni’s, The Sky Bar Team and Kendrick in the Suite Lounge

Special Shout outs – The Kool Kids – Michael, Laura, LauraLee, Tom, Kathy, Cookingyo, BigDawgRon ,Kelly, Claire, Hannah, Jodi and Dan, and Shenita, Cruise Bae, Twang Ster, Angel and the Ski Family

Conclusion:

This was one of the best cruises I’ve been on due to the pre cruise roll calls and ………… However, this was not one of the best cruises from a crew execution perspective. Bad luggage delivery, No welcome gifts, slow service in Chops and having to send my filet back is all due to bad management of the hard working crew. I would not be surprised if Adventure receives some bad CC reviews from the demanding North East cruisers at the beginning of the summer season, but I’m sure the staff will rise to occasion and bring Adventure up to Anthem standards.

Total score 83%

Another good vacation, I remain loyal to Royal. Thank you for reading and watching on Periscope.

Stay Thirsty My Friends

"This is Ken Jarvis and I approve this review, you know how we end these things….

RKSister...BOOM!!!!!!!!"

New stickers in the cabin

New garbage can in bathroom

Coming alongside

Welcome home Adventure!!! Sadly, my cruise is over and I had to work that day. Grabbed an Uber to Newark Airport for a rental car, and was sitting in my office at 8:40am

VZ Bridge inbound

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Pork belly

Filet

Back to the cabin to pack

Fog everywhere

And then the fog came

Quest Victory Celebration in my cabin with the Kool Kids

Then dinner at Giovanni's

Cabin Crawl at 12pm

Ocean view

Balcony for 3

Promenade

Aft Cabin

Royal Suite

Day 5 Sea day 3

Gold Card Breakfast

Nobody but the lifeguards at the pool

80's Dance Party

Then The Quest!!!!!! Team Number 1 Captains!!!!!

And the winners are???????

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Day 4 Sea day 2 - 1st drink of the day - Peach Margo

Slot Pull at 12pm - Buy in $25, we won $19

Then to the Suite Lounge to do some work

Caribbean Night in the Windjammer

You're not naming names,are you??:o:o:o

 

 

The names have been changed to protect the guilty

Best filet of the cruise

Capt Shawn made some remarks about buying extra snow shovels to shovel the gandway in NJ hahahha

12pm Pub Crawl

which lasted until the headliner show

Then to the VCL to dance the evening away... Did I miss dinner???? Bed time 3:48am UGH!!!!!

Day 3 - Day at Sea #1

My only Windjammer breakfast

Suite and Pinnacle Luncheon in Giovanni's

LIFEHACK - put ice bucket in cooler to have cold water

Formal night - Giovanni's Table

Sonesta Maho

Sonesta Great Bay

Good Bye St Maarten

Rented a Jeep and headed to Mullet Bay with a pit stop at the french bakery

The building is gone, but the food and drinks continue

Day 2 - Heading to St Maarten

Pilot

Safely alongside

I am looking to learn who the Activity Manager is? I have been told it is Magic Marvin Wilson....please let me know if that is correct.

 

Thanks!

Correct

Underwhelming Saturday night sail away at 8:30pm - lights were out at the Fort

Time to sign up for Voom

Speed Test

Good night day 1