We were on the Legend for New Years eve and I am so sad to write about it.
I will try to be very careful with what I say,,, however,,,there are no nice words to describe what happened.
We had a wonderful embarkation (we waited until 4:30) so we were the last to board the ship,,,, that was great, by the time the Muster drill took place, my cases where alredy in our room,,, not the case of the guys next door who went for dinner without them as they were confiscated (alcohol in the cases) can't imagine what would it be if they got their booze as they had a boom box in their bedroom that drove us crazy.
To see where this is going 90 % of the passengers were Dominicans, with spoiled little brats that spent their nights doing a knock-and-run on the hallways. (P.S.: I have 3 children) so I don't hate kids.
I joined a forum before the cruise and I was embarresd to admit I was Dominican to my new found English friends..... go ahead kill my comment, but it is the truth.
We were supposed to be at sea 2 days, and those days were HELL, the Solarium was invaded by those creeeppppppppy creatures called children, they are not children, they are uneducated monsters with NOOO manners!!!! The pool crew was tired of telling them to get out,,,but the parents,,, they are the worse,,,, they dropped the kids by the outside pool and left, there the monsters ruled, running, screaming and keeping everybody very uncomfortable.
Thank God we were at port every morning and never came back until the last minute, even after our land excursions were over, we stayed by the pier. I am also thankful we were assigned our dinner table to a Dominican family of Jewish background, they were a gift from God and we were able to have wonderful conversations for dinner.
You had to see this,,, it was a ZOO,,, people rushing for the elevators as if there were no more, the same for the ice-cream, lemonade and BBQ so children do as their parents.
In my opinion unless RCI is marketing the Legend for Dominican passengers,, that route wont last.
There were other Dominican families with "educted" children who felt the same as we did, those eat at the dinning room for Breakfast and lunch instead of the Windjamer which was another section of the zoo madness.
Even Colombians and Venezuelans on the ship commented about the whole rude situation,,,, so it is NOT a culture thing,,,,, is lack of education.
If you check the reports at
Cruise Critic - Cruises, Cruise Ship Reviews, Ratings, Cruise Deals, Cruise Forums,,,, you will be able to see others opinions on-line. A real shame.
On a better note,, service impecable, the Legend is an older ship, but in great shape, the food was not 5 stars but it was good,,, some dishes were pretty good and they had a great selection even lobster (small tails but lobster) you could order more than one.
Fantastic smoke salmon for breakfast, (that I miss with the fresh-still-warm-bagels) the dinning room for dinner was great, our waiter and assistant were fantastic, I ordered a wine package and every night my selected wine of the night was waiting for me on an ice bucket.
The duty free stores had great prices on Grey Goose at 23 bucks and a flavoured rum from St. Croix 7 bucks,, Absolute was 2 x 19.00
The shows were good, but some not meant for Spanish speaking,,,,, few people got the jokes from the stand-up comedian. But there were other shows that spanish speaking audience enjoyed.
One thing I wanted to ask here maybe AZB can give me an answer....... on the ship there were a lot of guys wearing lots of designer clothes and watches,,,the type you can't miss because the label in "your face",,,,,but we noticed that the tables were not filled with martinis or lots of drinks,,,,you can walk by the Centrum and you can tell the Dominican tables by the lack of drinks,,,,,, my husband thinks is because they are cheap since drinks are not included and a regular martini was 9 bucks. But I don't agree with that,,,, if you have the money to pay for the cruise and wear expensive labels,,,,why cheat yourself of the drinks?
In any case,,good cruise without the Dominicans, St. Lucia, with the Pitons, Martinique with FANTASTIC creole cuisine and CHEAAAAAP French wine, Barbados wih such beautiful beaches and service oriented people makes me forget about the days at sea.
CB
Sorry about the long post!!!! I am still mad
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