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Dining on Adventure of the Seasīreakfast, most days, was in the main dining room. We do consider ourselves minor foodies, so losing two restaurants was tough for us. Thus, we only had one specialty restaurant.

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Chops Grille was not yet open and plans to install Izumi Japanese Cuisine were axed. The biggest disappointment for us, in terms of the refurbishment, was the restaurants. The vast majority of the ship was exactly what we expected… up-to-date furnishings, a variety of lounges, bars and lots of entertainment. Unfortunately, we are not sure that we will be able to use it, but we do appreciate the gesture by Royal Caribbean. We do have a certificate for a credit towards a future cruise, to be used within the next year. We do want to note that Royal Caribbean did offer a future cruise credit to all guests on this cruise to make up for the change to the refurbishment schedule. Some parts of the refurbishment were pushed back, some will be in process for a few months and, sadly, some of the upgrades were cut altogether. Ultimately, dock workers were able to complete some of the scheduled refurbishment to Adventure of the Seas. Adventure of the Seas got a fresh look with the 2016 refurbishment, including interactive maps.

All this caused changes to the planned refurbishment. Additionally, the hurricane forced several of the cargo ships carrying equipment and supplies to be rerouted. Unfortunately, during the summer of 2016 Hurricane Matthew caused significant damage to the shipyard.

Our cruise was actually just the second sailing after Adventure of the Seas came out of dry dock for some fairly significant refurbishments. Please see our Review Policy for more information.) Adventure of the Seas Refurbishment (Disclaimer: When we link to places you can buy our stuff or places we stayed, we are using special codes which earn us commissions on the sales at no additional cost to you.

#Adventure of the seas how to#

We figured this would be a good way to enjoy the holiday with many different branches of our family and nobody would have to cook! Or clean or figure out how to host a big group! Ultimately, it ended up just being the two of us and a couple of thousand strangers on the boat, but it was still a great cruise! We invited all of our family and many of our friends. Specifically, Royal Caribbean’s Southern Caribbean Cruise aboard the Adventure of the Seas sailing out of San Juan. We decided about a year and a half in advance that we would spend Thanksgiving week of 2016 on a cruise.