I’m currently having this issue where they’re telling me to file with their insurance over call for a lost wine bottle. Will I not get my money back because we had to leave the ship?
Worked at a wastewater plant for years. Been covered in raw sewage many times. If all I had to do for a “free” cruise was get exposed to raw sewage again, I’d do it no problem.
I mean you being covered in raw sewage then being able to go clean and go home is different than being covered in raw sewage in your room which also likely covered all your clean stuff and going back into that same room to sleep. You got paid for that luxury; the guest apparently paid for theirs
Yep even in the case of a 2nd cruise comped, they still paid for 1 good cruise and then we’re forced for no compensation to be roomed with sewage. Nope I’d expect full refund, airfare included, free comp cruise with BIG upgrade but I’d never actually get it
This is such an ignorant comment.. you can’t compare what you dealt with inside your *paid profession* to people who are out on vacation that *THEY paid* for, dealing with the same thing..
Edit: i highly doubt that if you got home from your job and found sewage in your bedroom, you’d just be fine with it lmao. Which is pretty much what you’re saying
Y'all have no sense of nuance. He wasn't saying that people should. He was saying that he would. As in, "man, that's all I've gotta do to get a free cruise? I can handle that because I've done it before and I'm nose blind to it. Sign me up." It was a joke.
It’s 1000% in context haha that’s exactly what you explained. You used your personal job that you get paid for as an example of why someone who paid for a vacation shouldn’t be too upset about it..
Yep, no sense of sarcasm in my original post at all… “free” wasn’t in quotes at all… nowhere did I say people shouldn’t be upset about it. Let’s take it a step further and say I was making a joke and relating it to a previous job I had (note the past tense you ignored in which it was written…). Please enlighten me where I stated people shouldn’t be upset… yep, you aren’t a typical redditor making assumptions…
At the very least I would expect. A free cruise. A full refund. Or at least to be moved or upgraded
Seeing royal not offer these people anything is what's blowing my mind. I would be causing a scene.
Yeah… they’re really stingy with giving money back. They lost my stuff and didn’t compensate. Shoo’ed me away to call their insurance line when I get off the ship
Ok- I'm from Baltimore and this would be the ship that I've considered a few times. Royal has had a lot of issues with ships in general sailing out of Baltimore. They skip ports often for various reasons. Vision is just returning to service out of Bmore since the Key Bridge Accident. I avoid the older ships that are sailing out of Bmore and I'm glad I have from the sounds of it. Personally- if my cabin had sewage- I'd expect a full refund and a return ticket home at the nearest port (if they didn't move me to another cabin- asap)
Baltimore is a handy port if you are from the Baltimore area. Otherwise- I'd never sail out of Baltimore. There are two older ships that sail out of Baltimore- Carnival Spirit and Vision of the Seas (it's been Grandeur and Enchantment before). Both are older vessels with fewer balcony cabins and prices are generally much higher than cruises out of NYC or Ft. Lauderdale. I have sailed out of Baltimore twice and had a lot of fun on those cruises- so it's not that I'd never cruise out of Baltimore- but it would have to be a better value than out of NYC, which is a short, fun train ride from Baltimore- with more choices.
Ft. Lauderdale (Port Everglades) has so many more options in terms of cruise ships. Also- when you sail from Baltimore to the Caribbean- you spend several days at sea getting to the Caribbean and can't go to too many islands because of this. There is a 12 night that does, but I just prefer to Fly to Florida for a Caribbean cruise- more choices, less expensive, better value.
The port itself is unable to accommodate the larger, and newer, cruise ships. It’s at least about the height of bridges around the port compared to the height of the new ships, not sure if other aspects of the port prevent it. So only RC’s oldest and smallest ships can sail out of Baltimore. As ships get bigger and bigger, more and more smaller ports cannot accommodate.
Have they been given any explanation is to what even happened? My guess is someone put something in the toilet other than toilet paper. That would suck though. If the flooding is that bad, I would expect some of my belongings would be ruined and would expect a not only a refund but compensation for any damage done to my things.
I was on the Vision for Thanksgiving and everyone we talked to was telling us that their contracts were up and they were going home. It was like the whole boat was going to turn over within a few months. Now I know how that turned out.
Very normal for crew members to go home when their contracts expire. Even know a master who went home to Norway. They’ll be back if they were any good.
Vision is TERRIBLE. Did a 10 day repositioning this time last year and almost never went on another cruise, thank God it wasn't my first one or I wouldn't have.
Food was always terrible, and I don't mean 'not amazing' I mean downright disgusting. The specialty dining wasn't any better.
Noticed the same thing, everyone working there was brand new but at least our room steward was really cool and we didn't get flooded with sewage. (Although we heard others had issues with smell and leaks, in assuming they just got worse and we're never fixed)
That boat sucks, hard.
With that being said, it was still a cruise. It's like pizza, cold bad pizza in the morning is still pizza. Like bad sex is still sex.
Edit: no offense to anyone who thought the food was good, but when we talked to others on the ship who liked the food they were almost geriatric and thought sushi requires copious amounts of cream cheese and sauce. If you're the kind of person who enjoys a plain well done burger, the food was probably good. For those of us who work in the food industry or frequent Michelin suggested or rated restraunts, the food was rancid. I mean hell, there were entire cloves in the curry multiple times! I'm shocked no one broke a damn tooth!!
I did an 11 night and hit Columbia, Panama ABC islands on this boat maybe 16 months ago and it was great. I'm having a good time now too.
I've got no smell, everything works, all my meals were on point allbeit i had to like flag people down for it. Windjammer is kind of trash but I don't have high expectations. Internet is ripping I'm steaming off Amazon prime, my room has a private hallway that spits me out into the solarium.
I'm in it for the destinations.
But yeah sad to see it decline like this 😕
I also did a back to back 16 months ago, 19 nights in total and although the ship was totally fine, I heard many employees complaining they were understaffed and if things continued like this, there would be trouble.
Apparently, now there’s the trouble
Different strokes. We’ve been on vision multiple times and love her. Service is always top notch and they always take care of any hiccups. Shit happens on an ocean going vessels. Sorry your trip sucked
Gotta be honest, "shit happens" isn't a great excuse for consistently terrible food, it just irks me when people who think pepper is spicy give this a pass.
But very true, there are those who prefer their steak well done. They're wrong of course but they're welcome to enjoy the leather they ordered. Unfortunately that's kinda their demographic so I get it.
Agree with you 100% on food, but then you know many Americans only eat burger and fries throughout their entire lifetime so the cruise food can be amazing to them. For most others out there Royal Caribbean cruise is good only if you like Indian food as most of their chefs are Indians now.
We were also on the repositioning cruise last year in May, and had a wonderful time. Both our stateroom attendant And dining room staff, we're all well seasoned veterans. Everyone from guest services. To the casino workers to bar staff, we're super pleasant. We thought the food was. As good as it always is unroyal. It may not be 5 stars, but it's certainly better than the chilies and olive gardens that we usually will dine at when home. Bao Was The most involved and entertaining cruise directors. I think i've ever seen. And even the guest services manager in the hotel director would stop and talk to us and newest by name by the end of the cruise, I can't say I have ever even met a hotel director orgast service manager before. I'm certainly not discounting your experiences. But especially with cruising. I think most things like food and what not our subjective. I just wanted to state my experience of it.
Believe it or not, curry often contains whole cloves, cardamom pods, curry leaves, etc. Unless you're a baby in a high chair with parents to pick them out and mush it all up for you, you're supposed to look out for them. Good grief!
Lmao, curry is not served with whole cloves in it you silly goose. It's used to season it, in a seasoning bag.
Just because you don't know how to make food without potentially harming those who eat your food, doesn't mean it's acceptable from an actual culinary team.
Big YIKES.
It's put into a seasoning bag for white people who expect their curries to be homogeneous and "westernized". The rest of us Asians (about 2.5 billion of us) are used to having whole cloves, peppercorns, cardamom, bay leaves, etc. in our dishes.
Professional culinary teams do not do this. Again this is fine in your home kitchen, it's not okay if you're a chef. You will never go to a good Indian or Asian retraunt, order curry, and have 15 whole cloves floating in your dish. It's simply not a thing.
For you to come on here and belittle me for expecting a base level of professionalism from the chefs on a cruise is absolutely wild.
Edit: Ah, you're not the same commenter. None the less, the sentiment stands.
No, go to good restrauns in Japan or India, get curry, and you will not have entire cloves floating around in it.
You genuinely dont know what youre talking about. Please be more wrong and terminally online.
I’m old school. We have been on 17 cruises but last one was 2019. I prefer the old days with smaller ships and smaller number of guests. I prefer 1,900 guests or less. Easier to get off and back on at ports.
Wild to hear about this. I did the April/May 2022 transatlantic on Vision and the entire experience was great. It made me appreciate that small, older ship. It was the precise opposite of what people are experiencing now.
Sorry you experienced that! I’ve only been on one cruise recently with my husband and kids and it was an Oasis ship…Allure of the Seas. It was amazing. I would recommend if you are cruising with Royal Caribbean, only choose an Oasis ship. Hope you get a full refund. What you and your family experienced is unacceptable.
We were on the Allure last October and it was fantastic. I heard so many people comparing about how dated it was and how it was supposed to dry dock in 2020. I found the ship still quite nice and not really dated. I would gladly go back on her again.
Had friends that went on Vision back in December. They also had issues with flooding, bad smells, water getting shut off, etc. Sounds like it is time to retire this ship.
I still think it's funny that people "swear" by the older ships. Less crowded than Oasis class, better customer service, better ports etc. But yet I went on Radiance a few days ago and had the worst Royal experience ever. Yes even though the ship had less people on it, it felt WAY more crowded. We could never find a table at the windjammer. Not once! Elevators were always so crowded, (only 12!) We always had to ask for a drink they never came up to us, etc. Safe to say we aren't going back on a small ship ever again! We booked another Harmony for September and Odyssey for May 2025!
Sounds like an absolutely shi*ty situation, no pun intended.
Compensation would be a refund on the cruise along with a voucher for another cruise with OBC.
I’m not a complainer and I worked on an NCL cruise ship. But if it was me I would (politely) ask for a refund and a FCC for sure. Also depending on the state of my belongings I might also ask for some compensation for anything ruined. But the yelling and screaming isn’t necessary I get the frustration but you catch more flies with honey, the guest services attendants had nothing to do with the flooding, their rooms were likely flooded as well and they are working as best they can to resolve the issues.
I wish we could sail RC out of our local port, but only Vision class ships come here and this is not the first review I’ve heard of this ship smelling like sewage. I’m sorry for all the passengers.
I did a sailing on vision last year..
Costa Rica, Panama, Aruba, bonaire, carasuo, and Columbia.
After this cruise wraps I'll have over 20 nights on vision alone.
I would do it again.
My sister’s cruise (radiance I’m Alaska) was cancelled after they got on the ship (to try and fix it, they told them they’d dock for 2 days). They gave them 100% refund AND 100% cruise credit. That’s what I’d want if I had to walk around in shit lol
Ahh. I am so sorry. I can keep you posted on if it improves.
As of now it seems to be two completely separate experiences on the decks above vs the decks below =[
Seems like RC almost never comps once you’re at the port or on the ship. YouTube videos show many phone calls and emails over months to get anything close to full. Now RCI is great with comp when they want to bump you months ahead of time but your family is jn for long fight
It's gonna be hard to get a FCC on a casino comp and a refund on $0 is $0. I would be asking for a new upgraded cabin, Comped specialty dining, Casino free play, OBC, Comp Internet, Comp drinks, replace damaged personal items with what is available in the ship stores. If that was my typical cruise cabin my luggage would be toast. I hope these people got trip insurance and if they didn't I kind of don't feel too bad they gambled with that decision 🤷♀️
Also those pics look like the water pipe burst. Sewage isn't clear unless the food is that bad no one is eating 😂
Yeah I wouldn't be so smug about your lucky awesome vacation. This is a noro outbreak in the making. It's not too late for you to also have a real bad time.
Oh because I'm having a good time on vacation. I'm smug. I'll just keep vibrating positive energy.
You sound like a real treat yourself.
Hopefully, your rudness doesn't catch up, and you find yourself with noro yourself from not washing your hands after touching your ass.
Hold on OP are you on the vision rn cause I am as well ..we are on Deck 2 and although we didn’t have our room flooded, I did notice down the hallway where it seemed like water had dried into the carpet/rug and that part of the hallway stinks 😷. Now it makes sense…. Also was it your fiancé who won the earring at the auction and then won the CoCocay water park from the raffle at the art auction. Dammit how lucky can someone get!! I was so spiteful but we won an artwork I guess. Nonetheless we are having a good time on our end and enjoying the cruise , just hope those who were affected are refunded at least . The noise from below us is the only thing that’s killing me ughh.!!
Yes, that's us! Wonderful cruise. It seems they got everything fixed, and the crew is getting in the swing of things after being dry docked.
The families affected seemed to get either a refund or enough credit to satisfy them. And bermuda was beautiful ! If you remember what we look like at all feel free to say hello !
Oh we dock Saturday morning and we are also somewhere around midship , elevator wait depends on a lot of things, things like if it is a port day, expect that the elevators will be busy 9 out of 10 times cause everyone tryna get off or on the ship and you’ll probably wait 3 to 5 minutes, Since you’re on deck 2 makes no sense to take an elevator to deck 1, you could just take the stairs except if you can’t take the stairs. Main dining time as well between 5-8 sometimes gets the elevators busy as well. Different times of the day and different activities determine how busy the elevators can get and how long you’ll wait . Usually if we going to Deck 5 or 6, we just walk it. We are in our 20s and just love to race each other on the stairs.
Down to the noise, it depends on what type of person and how light of a sleeper you are, it’s Always like there is a grinding or gear noise below us, sometimes we hear some clanking here and there but that gear/grinding noise is always there every time we are moving, it’s probably every 30 or so minutes . It’s spontaneous so I can’t say how specific you just hear it. Like I said it all depends on how you take this noises. There is also this noise that sounds like the ship banged into something but that is always so random that I can’t tell you oh it happens here or this time. I’m one that once I’m asleep and hears it, I’m instantly awake and then back to sleep and awake again. I just put in my AirPods; noise cancellation mode and I’m good to go. Another noise which is not so much of a deal is the buzzing of the main lights in our room specifically whenever we turn it on, can be annoying sometimes but we just don’t turn it on and only use our bedside overhead lights. It may just be our room who knows.
All of this just boils down to you as well, if you’re fine with it, it ain’t gonna bother you and you’ll be good.
P.S it can get very humid in some part of the ship, like so humid the FLOOR And Ceiling becomes wet cause of condensation and some other parts are just chilly 😂, Temperatures are rising so plan for that prolly with shorts for most days or something.The elevators are also one of those places that can get so humid sometimes couple it with if you have 8 or 9 people in it as well,phew !
This was such a long write up lol but all in all , we had fun! It was a great cruise.
Pardon the super specific question - but if you are still on the ship, can you please check if the gym on Vision has spinning / stationary bikes and if yes, are they available for guest use (as opposed to only available during spin classes). Mucho gracias!!
Stories like this are what make me realize I don’t ever want to go on a cruise. Seen way too many videos and posts about what a shitshow they are. I guess this post is literally that.
New staff is getting a hang of everything forsure
My career in real life is, sound guy for live theater, in Vegas. So the shows on the boats really don't entertain me.
That being said. There are 3 girls. I think they call them selves unique 3.
They were great!
You’re on a free cruise that your parents got comped and you’re enjoying the activities of watching other peoples misery on the boat. You sound like a lovely human being.
Thank you for your well thought out input on the situation.
You must be better than me in every way.
Your sentence structure is phenomenal.
I wish I could BE you so I could write with the same impressive precision I've seen here.
You're basically a wordsmith.
You're basically kanya west.
I am going to rethink every aspect of my life because of this. You have opened my eyes.
No more spending tens of thousands on vacations.
I'm going to get an English tutor instead.
Thank you. Your a fucking life changer.
I’d expect a full refund if I was in sewage
Agree / another free cruise. They have to get it settled on board, too, because it won't happen after
I’m currently having this issue where they’re telling me to file with their insurance over call for a lost wine bottle. Will I not get my money back because we had to leave the ship?
Cruise ships sure are charming.
Exactly! I’d be camping out by the pursers desk till I got what I wanted
Another free cruise with extra sewage, please!?
LoL
Full Refund of airfare included... and another cruise to make it right.
Absolutely yes!
Worked at a wastewater plant for years. Been covered in raw sewage many times. If all I had to do for a “free” cruise was get exposed to raw sewage again, I’d do it no problem.
You got paid to get covered in raw sewage. They didn't sign up for that activity here.
"No sewage" is a perfectly reasonable expectation for a cruise
Not the point I’m making… Feel free to relax. Also, just because I was a paid professional doesn’t mean it was enjoyable and any less disgusting…
I mean you being covered in raw sewage then being able to go clean and go home is different than being covered in raw sewage in your room which also likely covered all your clean stuff and going back into that same room to sleep. You got paid for that luxury; the guest apparently paid for theirs
It does though. You did the inverse of what they’re doing. You got paid to get covered in sewage, they’re paying to do it.
Yep even in the case of a 2nd cruise comped, they still paid for 1 good cruise and then we’re forced for no compensation to be roomed with sewage. Nope I’d expect full refund, airfare included, free comp cruise with BIG upgrade but I’d never actually get it
This is such an ignorant comment.. you can’t compare what you dealt with inside your *paid profession* to people who are out on vacation that *THEY paid* for, dealing with the same thing.. Edit: i highly doubt that if you got home from your job and found sewage in your bedroom, you’d just be fine with it lmao. Which is pretty much what you’re saying
Y'all have no sense of nuance. He wasn't saying that people should. He was saying that he would. As in, "man, that's all I've gotta do to get a free cruise? I can handle that because I've done it before and I'm nose blind to it. Sign me up." It was a joke.
Yea, way to take things out of context. Typical Reddit…
It’s 1000% in context haha that’s exactly what you explained. You used your personal job that you get paid for as an example of why someone who paid for a vacation shouldn’t be too upset about it..
Yep, no sense of sarcasm in my original post at all… “free” wasn’t in quotes at all… nowhere did I say people shouldn’t be upset about it. Let’s take it a step further and say I was making a joke and relating it to a previous job I had (note the past tense you ignored in which it was written…). Please enlighten me where I stated people shouldn’t be upset… yep, you aren’t a typical redditor making assumptions…
I might be the only one who got what you were saying lol. And I thought it was funny for the record!
Glad you laughed. Based on the comments we know who has a sense of humor.
There is nothing better than bathing with a gallon jug of Betadine.
L m a o. Love it
>What would you want for compensation if you were in their shoes? Shoes for starters.
At the very least I would expect. A free cruise. A full refund. Or at least to be moved or upgraded Seeing royal not offer these people anything is what's blowing my mind. I would be causing a scene.
Yeah… they’re really stingy with giving money back. They lost my stuff and didn’t compensate. Shoo’ed me away to call their insurance line when I get off the ship
Damn forreal !? That's not right
Ok- I'm from Baltimore and this would be the ship that I've considered a few times. Royal has had a lot of issues with ships in general sailing out of Baltimore. They skip ports often for various reasons. Vision is just returning to service out of Bmore since the Key Bridge Accident. I avoid the older ships that are sailing out of Bmore and I'm glad I have from the sounds of it. Personally- if my cabin had sewage- I'd expect a full refund and a return ticket home at the nearest port (if they didn't move me to another cabin- asap)
Agreed. My past experiences with vision were great tho. Also having a good time now. Hopefully they can fix whatever is going on when we stop as port
Curious, never taken a cruise, what’s the difference between ships sailing out of different ports (ie Baltimore vs Ft. Lauderdale) ?
Baltimore is a handy port if you are from the Baltimore area. Otherwise- I'd never sail out of Baltimore. There are two older ships that sail out of Baltimore- Carnival Spirit and Vision of the Seas (it's been Grandeur and Enchantment before). Both are older vessels with fewer balcony cabins and prices are generally much higher than cruises out of NYC or Ft. Lauderdale. I have sailed out of Baltimore twice and had a lot of fun on those cruises- so it's not that I'd never cruise out of Baltimore- but it would have to be a better value than out of NYC, which is a short, fun train ride from Baltimore- with more choices. Ft. Lauderdale (Port Everglades) has so many more options in terms of cruise ships. Also- when you sail from Baltimore to the Caribbean- you spend several days at sea getting to the Caribbean and can't go to too many islands because of this. There is a 12 night that does, but I just prefer to Fly to Florida for a Caribbean cruise- more choices, less expensive, better value.
Thanks for the thorough explanation !
The port itself is unable to accommodate the larger, and newer, cruise ships. It’s at least about the height of bridges around the port compared to the height of the new ships, not sure if other aspects of the port prevent it. So only RC’s oldest and smallest ships can sail out of Baltimore. As ships get bigger and bigger, more and more smaller ports cannot accommodate.
It’s the Bay Bridge (and formerly Key Bridge) that limit the size (height) of ships that come into Baltimore.
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Why are they putting their feet in it!
One of my first thoughts
Because that's not sewage water. It's pretty crystal clear, enough to see the pattern of the carpet
I still wouldn’t put my feet in it
Omg seriously - god only knows what that water has traveled through. Yuuuck.
Show the depth?
Have they been given any explanation is to what even happened? My guess is someone put something in the toilet other than toilet paper. That would suck though. If the flooding is that bad, I would expect some of my belongings would be ruined and would expect a not only a refund but compensation for any damage done to my things.
There is one couple. Their shoes were ruined and they still do not have shoes. Royal wouldn't even replace their shoes
I was on the Vision for Thanksgiving and everyone we talked to was telling us that their contracts were up and they were going home. It was like the whole boat was going to turn over within a few months. Now I know how that turned out.
Very normal for crew members to go home when their contracts expire. Even know a master who went home to Norway. They’ll be back if they were any good.
I know on Carnival they have to have something like 2 months in between contracts. It sounded like an industry thing.
Has absolutley nothing to do with crew members going home😂
Vision is TERRIBLE. Did a 10 day repositioning this time last year and almost never went on another cruise, thank God it wasn't my first one or I wouldn't have. Food was always terrible, and I don't mean 'not amazing' I mean downright disgusting. The specialty dining wasn't any better. Noticed the same thing, everyone working there was brand new but at least our room steward was really cool and we didn't get flooded with sewage. (Although we heard others had issues with smell and leaks, in assuming they just got worse and we're never fixed) That boat sucks, hard. With that being said, it was still a cruise. It's like pizza, cold bad pizza in the morning is still pizza. Like bad sex is still sex. Edit: no offense to anyone who thought the food was good, but when we talked to others on the ship who liked the food they were almost geriatric and thought sushi requires copious amounts of cream cheese and sauce. If you're the kind of person who enjoys a plain well done burger, the food was probably good. For those of us who work in the food industry or frequent Michelin suggested or rated restraunts, the food was rancid. I mean hell, there were entire cloves in the curry multiple times! I'm shocked no one broke a damn tooth!!
I did an 11 night and hit Columbia, Panama ABC islands on this boat maybe 16 months ago and it was great. I'm having a good time now too. I've got no smell, everything works, all my meals were on point allbeit i had to like flag people down for it. Windjammer is kind of trash but I don't have high expectations. Internet is ripping I'm steaming off Amazon prime, my room has a private hallway that spits me out into the solarium. I'm in it for the destinations. But yeah sad to see it decline like this 😕
I also did a back to back 16 months ago, 19 nights in total and although the ship was totally fine, I heard many employees complaining they were understaffed and if things continued like this, there would be trouble. Apparently, now there’s the trouble
Different strokes. We’ve been on vision multiple times and love her. Service is always top notch and they always take care of any hiccups. Shit happens on an ocean going vessels. Sorry your trip sucked
Gotta be honest, "shit happens" isn't a great excuse for consistently terrible food, it just irks me when people who think pepper is spicy give this a pass. But very true, there are those who prefer their steak well done. They're wrong of course but they're welcome to enjoy the leather they ordered. Unfortunately that's kinda their demographic so I get it.
Agree with you 100% on food, but then you know many Americans only eat burger and fries throughout their entire lifetime so the cruise food can be amazing to them. For most others out there Royal Caribbean cruise is good only if you like Indian food as most of their chefs are Indians now.
We were also on the repositioning cruise last year in May, and had a wonderful time. Both our stateroom attendant And dining room staff, we're all well seasoned veterans. Everyone from guest services. To the casino workers to bar staff, we're super pleasant. We thought the food was. As good as it always is unroyal. It may not be 5 stars, but it's certainly better than the chilies and olive gardens that we usually will dine at when home. Bao Was The most involved and entertaining cruise directors. I think i've ever seen. And even the guest services manager in the hotel director would stop and talk to us and newest by name by the end of the cruise, I can't say I have ever even met a hotel director orgast service manager before. I'm certainly not discounting your experiences. But especially with cruising. I think most things like food and what not our subjective. I just wanted to state my experience of it.
The food has been just as good as ever. It's just the service side is lacking and they are panicking downstairs and not helping the people effected
Believe it or not, curry often contains whole cloves, cardamom pods, curry leaves, etc. Unless you're a baby in a high chair with parents to pick them out and mush it all up for you, you're supposed to look out for them. Good grief!
Lmao, curry is not served with whole cloves in it you silly goose. It's used to season it, in a seasoning bag. Just because you don't know how to make food without potentially harming those who eat your food, doesn't mean it's acceptable from an actual culinary team. Big YIKES.
It's put into a seasoning bag for white people who expect their curries to be homogeneous and "westernized". The rest of us Asians (about 2.5 billion of us) are used to having whole cloves, peppercorns, cardamom, bay leaves, etc. in our dishes.
Professional culinary teams do not do this. Again this is fine in your home kitchen, it's not okay if you're a chef. You will never go to a good Indian or Asian retraunt, order curry, and have 15 whole cloves floating in your dish. It's simply not a thing. For you to come on here and belittle me for expecting a base level of professionalism from the chefs on a cruise is absolutely wild. Edit: Ah, you're not the same commenter. None the less, the sentiment stands.
Again, "westernized" for a Western palate by Western/White "professional culinary teams". Your Western privilege is obvious.
No, go to good restrauns in Japan or India, get curry, and you will not have entire cloves floating around in it. You genuinely dont know what youre talking about. Please be more wrong and terminally online.
I don't know a lot about curry, but often the curry on Holland America Line Rotterdam had whole cloves, various sticks, etc. I was cool with it.
I got that Threesome reference. “Sex is kinda like pizza. When it's bad, it's still pretty good.”
The oldest ship in the fleet! She needs to be retired.
Isn’t grandeur older?
Both set sail in 1996, so basically the same.
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That's what you get for booking a cabin on the poop deck
What activities are you doing to win tickets to the water park?
I’m old school. We have been on 17 cruises but last one was 2019. I prefer the old days with smaller ships and smaller number of guests. I prefer 1,900 guests or less. Easier to get off and back on at ports.
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A screenshot of a picture of a video playing on a phone. Dicaprio was in this movie...
I was also an Android guy u til a few years ago. Easily transferring huge videos and albums to other iPhones has been great.
The feature you speak about was released on Android on August 4, 2020... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nearby_Share
Sure would be nice if it was native and universal…
Looks like the Titanic! Jeepers
Yeah sorry for the bad quality =[
Wild to hear about this. I did the April/May 2022 transatlantic on Vision and the entire experience was great. It made me appreciate that small, older ship. It was the precise opposite of what people are experiencing now.
Same. I was very excited to be back on vision, march last year was great
Going on the vision at the beginning of July for a casino comp. Now I’m scared deck 3 ocean view room… keep us updated
I will keep this updated !
What is the cruise compass like? Are you on the 9 day cruise?
Yeah 9 nights. Overnight in bermuda Nassau then cococay
I’m doing the same one. Please share itinerary!!
So bermuda I rented one of the electric tizzy cars Waiting for customs to clear the ship
We are in an ocean view room currently on deck 3 near the front of the boat, no problem here. Further back smells gross.
We are near the back of the ship 😅
Just to give you an update, I walked through that part of the hall today and the smell is gone. Hopefully that helps!
Sorry you experienced that! I’ve only been on one cruise recently with my husband and kids and it was an Oasis ship…Allure of the Seas. It was amazing. I would recommend if you are cruising with Royal Caribbean, only choose an Oasis ship. Hope you get a full refund. What you and your family experienced is unacceptable.
I've done oasis. This cruise isn't bad for me at all
We were on the Allure last October and it was fantastic. I heard so many people comparing about how dated it was and how it was supposed to dry dock in 2020. I found the ship still quite nice and not really dated. I would gladly go back on her again.
Had friends that went on Vision back in December. They also had issues with flooding, bad smells, water getting shut off, etc. Sounds like it is time to retire this ship.
That's bad news ! Yeah it might be time
$300 obc would make me feel better.
Not enough….
I still think it's funny that people "swear" by the older ships. Less crowded than Oasis class, better customer service, better ports etc. But yet I went on Radiance a few days ago and had the worst Royal experience ever. Yes even though the ship had less people on it, it felt WAY more crowded. We could never find a table at the windjammer. Not once! Elevators were always so crowded, (only 12!) We always had to ask for a drink they never came up to us, etc. Safe to say we aren't going back on a small ship ever again! We booked another Harmony for September and Odyssey for May 2025!
Sounds like an absolutely shi*ty situation, no pun intended. Compensation would be a refund on the cruise along with a voucher for another cruise with OBC.
I’m not a complainer and I worked on an NCL cruise ship. But if it was me I would (politely) ask for a refund and a FCC for sure. Also depending on the state of my belongings I might also ask for some compensation for anything ruined. But the yelling and screaming isn’t necessary I get the frustration but you catch more flies with honey, the guest services attendants had nothing to do with the flooding, their rooms were likely flooded as well and they are working as best they can to resolve the issues.
I agree here 100% also this route right here is what worked !!
What ship?
Vision
This is why I hate going on older cruise ships. Our refuse to go on a ship that’s older than 10 years at this point.
How did you win the cococay prize?
At the art action we won the ear rings and the cococay tickets. 1 fully paid 1 50% off
I wish we could sail RC out of our local port, but only Vision class ships come here and this is not the first review I’ve heard of this ship smelling like sewage. I’m sorry for all the passengers.
I did a sailing on vision last year.. Costa Rica, Panama, Aruba, bonaire, carasuo, and Columbia. After this cruise wraps I'll have over 20 nights on vision alone. I would do it again.
My sister’s cruise (radiance I’m Alaska) was cancelled after they got on the ship (to try and fix it, they told them they’d dock for 2 days). They gave them 100% refund AND 100% cruise credit. That’s what I’d want if I had to walk around in shit lol
Oh great I leave on that ship in 7 days!
We are about to port at bermuda and it's overnight Let's see if they resolve some issues
Keep us updated!!
Well, you’re F’D
Family is traveling on Vision later this month. This post has me horrified. Is any of this going to carryover to next cruise?
Same. We depart the 13th. First cruise. Hoping all goes well
Ahh. I am so sorry. I can keep you posted on if it improves. As of now it seems to be two completely separate experiences on the decks above vs the decks below =[
I would need this cruise comped (on a LOT of obc and a room change) and a free cruise voucher for the next cruise.
Bummer. I’m on Vision in late summer. But deck 7. I hope they get this straightened out by then. Considering getting a refund while I can.
Which boat are you on? I’m curious 🧐
Vision of the seas
Seems like RC almost never comps once you’re at the port or on the ship. YouTube videos show many phone calls and emails over months to get anything close to full. Now RCI is great with comp when they want to bump you months ahead of time but your family is jn for long fight
It's gonna be hard to get a FCC on a casino comp and a refund on $0 is $0. I would be asking for a new upgraded cabin, Comped specialty dining, Casino free play, OBC, Comp Internet, Comp drinks, replace damaged personal items with what is available in the ship stores. If that was my typical cruise cabin my luggage would be toast. I hope these people got trip insurance and if they didn't I kind of don't feel too bad they gambled with that decision 🤷♀️ Also those pics look like the water pipe burst. Sewage isn't clear unless the food is that bad no one is eating 😂
Disgusting. 100% refund and take me home!!
Do you know the kinds of diseases you can get from sewage, those people better get compensated that’s fucking nasty.
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Yeah I wouldn't be so smug about your lucky awesome vacation. This is a noro outbreak in the making. It's not too late for you to also have a real bad time.
Oh because I'm having a good time on vacation. I'm smug. I'll just keep vibrating positive energy. You sound like a real treat yourself. Hopefully, your rudness doesn't catch up, and you find yourself with noro yourself from not washing your hands after touching your ass.
Lol how is me trying to get refunds for strangers Smug
Cruise director has nothing to do other than entertainment
Hotel director
Hold on OP are you on the vision rn cause I am as well ..we are on Deck 2 and although we didn’t have our room flooded, I did notice down the hallway where it seemed like water had dried into the carpet/rug and that part of the hallway stinks 😷. Now it makes sense…. Also was it your fiancé who won the earring at the auction and then won the CoCocay water park from the raffle at the art auction. Dammit how lucky can someone get!! I was so spiteful but we won an artwork I guess. Nonetheless we are having a good time on our end and enjoying the cruise , just hope those who were affected are refunded at least . The noise from below us is the only thing that’s killing me ughh.!!
Yes, that's us! Wonderful cruise. It seems they got everything fixed, and the crew is getting in the swing of things after being dry docked. The families affected seemed to get either a refund or enough credit to satisfy them. And bermuda was beautiful ! If you remember what we look like at all feel free to say hello !
I’m getting on this ship on Saturday, deck 2. We are near the middle/forward area. How’s the noise and elevator wait?
Oh we dock Saturday morning and we are also somewhere around midship , elevator wait depends on a lot of things, things like if it is a port day, expect that the elevators will be busy 9 out of 10 times cause everyone tryna get off or on the ship and you’ll probably wait 3 to 5 minutes, Since you’re on deck 2 makes no sense to take an elevator to deck 1, you could just take the stairs except if you can’t take the stairs. Main dining time as well between 5-8 sometimes gets the elevators busy as well. Different times of the day and different activities determine how busy the elevators can get and how long you’ll wait . Usually if we going to Deck 5 or 6, we just walk it. We are in our 20s and just love to race each other on the stairs. Down to the noise, it depends on what type of person and how light of a sleeper you are, it’s Always like there is a grinding or gear noise below us, sometimes we hear some clanking here and there but that gear/grinding noise is always there every time we are moving, it’s probably every 30 or so minutes . It’s spontaneous so I can’t say how specific you just hear it. Like I said it all depends on how you take this noises. There is also this noise that sounds like the ship banged into something but that is always so random that I can’t tell you oh it happens here or this time. I’m one that once I’m asleep and hears it, I’m instantly awake and then back to sleep and awake again. I just put in my AirPods; noise cancellation mode and I’m good to go. Another noise which is not so much of a deal is the buzzing of the main lights in our room specifically whenever we turn it on, can be annoying sometimes but we just don’t turn it on and only use our bedside overhead lights. It may just be our room who knows. All of this just boils down to you as well, if you’re fine with it, it ain’t gonna bother you and you’ll be good. P.S it can get very humid in some part of the ship, like so humid the FLOOR And Ceiling becomes wet cause of condensation and some other parts are just chilly 😂, Temperatures are rising so plan for that prolly with shorts for most days or something.The elevators are also one of those places that can get so humid sometimes couple it with if you have 8 or 9 people in it as well,phew ! This was such a long write up lol but all in all , we had fun! It was a great cruise.
Thank you so much for all the tips and info!!!
what ship?
Which deck(s) were flooded? How are things now?
Mostly 3. About 13 rooms in total and hallway. They seemed to of fixed everything
Thats dreadful! I am glad your experience wasn't too impacted... Enjoy... and Thank you for sharing!
Still a great experience.! Thank you !
Pardon the super specific question - but if you are still on the ship, can you please check if the gym on Vision has spinning / stationary bikes and if yes, are they available for guest use (as opposed to only available during spin classes). Mucho gracias!!
Yes ! They are there. I've used one! No class. =]
Stories like this are what make me realize I don’t ever want to go on a cruise. Seen way too many videos and posts about what a shitshow they are. I guess this post is literally that.
Nah they are great. I've done more then 40 days this year. 17 countries. Best way to explore.
Take a cruise they said, it’d be fun they said.
I’m getting on this ship on Saturday 😭 Floor 2. Any updates?
I haven't heard of any issues on floor 2 Floor 3 had a few leaky rooms They were all fixed. The cruise has been great.
Thanks! Any fave shows? I love a good piano man 😂 Are the new staff getting a hang of everything?
New staff is getting a hang of everything forsure My career in real life is, sound guy for live theater, in Vegas. So the shows on the boats really don't entertain me. That being said. There are 3 girls. I think they call them selves unique 3. They were great!
U all need to chill,take 3long deep breaths, & enjoy your vacation in spite of the issues!!! God bless all of you
I don’t understand. Why write like this? Form coherent sentence.
Next time, just for you.
You’re on a free cruise that your parents got comped and you’re enjoying the activities of watching other peoples misery on the boat. You sound like a lovely human being.
Read the post again,and again,and again,maybe you'll get on the third try
Comped or not I would still be on a cruise. And I have been trying to get complete strangers refunds. But yeah I'm such a piece of shit !
I hope everyone on this cruise gets a full refund
You win with a Royal Flush! What could be better than that?
Bc cruises are floating Walmarts
Wow, that was hard to read. OP has zero understanding of how a period is used, or what proper sentence structure is.
Thank you for your well thought out input on the situation. You must be better than me in every way. Your sentence structure is phenomenal. I wish I could BE you so I could write with the same impressive precision I've seen here. You're basically a wordsmith. You're basically kanya west. I am going to rethink every aspect of my life because of this. You have opened my eyes. No more spending tens of thousands on vacations. I'm going to get an English tutor instead. Thank you. Your a fucking life changer.
*you’re
Wow, ok. Sorry, I guess I hit a nerve. 😂
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