Spectrum from Shanghai

[hazeleyez3]

I know Mandarin will be the primary language, but I was wondering if it will be common for announcements to also be read in English? 

[Hogbay]

1 hour ago, hazeleyez3 said:

I know Mandarin will be the primary language, but I was wondering if it will be common for announcements to also be read in English? 

I don't know about Spectrum but both Quantum and Ovation came to do Australian itinerary and the staff all spoke English very well . On European sailing English was first announced then Spanish , Italian. 

[bonsai3s]

1 hour ago, hazeleyez3 said:

I know Mandarin will be the primary language, but I was wondering if it will be common for announcements to also be read in English? 

 

No worries...announcements will be be read in English. All crew members know how to speak English. Happy sailing.

[mugtech]

         Spectrum had announcements in English and two other languages out of Singapore, and there was an overwhelming amount of passports from the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore.

[Brandis]

We were on Spectrum's first 7 day cruise out of Shanghai. All announcements were made in English, though I can't remember if they did Chinese first. Not that it matters though.

Expect some things to be a bit different than on other RCL cruises. On our cruise, there were lots of Chinese family groups. I'd say probably 90 percent Chinese guests, rest mostly US and some Europeans.

MDR menu was mostly geared to Chinese tastes, the english menu strangely was only a laminated paper with minimal text, mostly pictures. The food there wasn't very good in my opinion and the meal very rushed, it seems that the Chinese passengers didn't want to linger at dinner. Everything was brought out very quickly and we were done in less than an hour.

Windjammer was good though and thankfully, staying in Silver Suites, we had access to the Silver Dining room, which is the Solarium Grill on Non-Asia cruises. While they had a fixed menu all week, with the buffet there was lots of differnt things to try.

Also, after dinner, the ship felt really empty, it seems the Chinese guests went to sleep early.

Lots of smokers and the pool deck smelled of smoke most of the time. As the Solarium pool was reserved for Silver and Gold suite guests, we could take refuge there 🙂

[hazeleyez3]

Thanks for the information, and confirmation announcements will be in English (which was the main concern).  Thanks for the heads up about it being immersive.  Perhaps a bit odd, but I think that sounds like a plus for us.  Sailing around Asia on a cruise geared towards Asians, sounds more appealing than sailing around Asia and then coming back to the ship and it feeling like a Caribbean cruise.  
 

Not thrilled about the smoking aspect, but we are rarely on the pool deck, so hopefully it won’t be that intrusive for us.

 

i read somewhere that much of the ship at night was quiet, but the casino was busy. If that’s the case, curious if its slots or table games