A Brutally Honest Wonder of the Seas Review 2023 

I really enjoyed the honesty and I enjoyed the sarcasm as I cackled at a few things. I really felt like this was me narrating this!

This was so good! I love your honest and laid back style of review. Can’t wait to hear all about Icon!!

I like this video. Subscribed. Thank you for speaking so clearly!

I’ve been on Wonder but still enjoyed watching this. Very thorough. Thank you

I greatly enjoyed this honest review! Well done! Would love to see a Oasis vs Wonder comparison video soon. Subscribed and waiting

This is a fantastic review! Thank you for honest and short review!

Great review, professional and one of the most concise and perfectly filmed reviews.

I’m so glad you gave both the pros and cons of boarding early. I personally don’t like to board until after 1pm at the earliest, but I know I’m in the minority. It makes for a more relaxing and restful morning and you can often go straight to your cabin. And I’m not a fan of being tired on the first day of a cruise so it works for me. But I fully understand why others might want to board the ship as early as possible.

Love your review! Your table rant was funny AF!😂😂😂

Excellent review! Well done! Enjoyed it. Honest, interesting and well put together. Keep up the great work.

‘Now that you have your drink package, it’s time to PARTY!….with your kids…’ 😂 Great review sir.

Awesome review man!!

Great job! One of the best cruise videos I've seen yet.

Loved your video! Great sense of humor! I watched it twice! 😅I hope you do more! I'm going on Wonder of the Seas in a few months - awesome review!

Thank you for your review. This is the review i was looking for. I felt like other youtubers worked for Royal Carribean and was scared to be honest.

I REALLY ENJOY WATCHING THE VIDEO, AND THE NARRATION OF THE VID WAS GREAT, THANKS !!!

The teeny tiny tables!! 🤣 Note to self to bring my pop-up camping table with me on Wonder.

Thanks for the great Review.

this is the honest review i needed to keep my expectations low! no bullshit, its a reasonable mans point of view

Loved this! I’m so used to cheesy and positive cruise reviews that is so sugar coated!

Presented like an episode of Dragnet. (most of y'all don't know what that is). Very impressive review. Just the facts ma'am, just the facts.

Great review! I appreciate your honest pros and cons.

Great review and thanks for the info! We have been on freedom and Independence of the sea and now we're looking for something deferent. It is more expensive on the 7 day cruise but we will have to just do it.

We did an excursion on Falmouth and it was the BEST. I recommend doing the waterfall climb. We got to see much of the countryside and even some shopping.

I am looking at booking my first Royal cruise. Not new to cruising by no means just new to Royal. Thank you for this. I did subscribe. Thanks for the drink package tip for my kid. I was looking at going when he turns 6. 5 may be better :)

Would love to see a direct comparison of Oasis vs Wonder! Great idea! Subscribed! Great video! Appreciate the little tips like enjoy Coco Cay before 2.

I thought I saw myself when you entered the ship lol! I was on this sailing and definitely agree with most of your points. I am starting to plan another cruise. We thoroughly enjoyed Labadee and the other ports. We did an excursion in Jamacia and loved it so for anybody sailing there, book an excursion. Black Friday deals are awesome!

Great Video!

Good review. I like seeing reviews from people that don't also own a travel agency. Those reviews are "Everything is great and wonderful" no matter what ship it is or what difficulties they run into. They only want to point out the positives to help them sell more cruises. I liked that you saw some flaws and pointed them out but you still reported that you had a wonderful cruise and promptly booked Icon. That's reality. No cruise is perfect and there is always room for improvement but that doesn't mean you don't have a great time. Oh, and ignore those that are complaining about your voice/monotone. Your narration reminds me of Jim Zim's cruise reviews. Jim has a very similar style and monotone. When Jim was doing cruise reviews he was one of the top on RU-vid.

Haven’t been on Wonder but I have been on Harmony twice. We have a video posted on our channel. I love Oasis class ships. So much to do you can not get bored. Good service in my experience too.

Whew none of these are brutal, going in November and this video made me even more excited!

What a great vlog

Well I don't have kids, and I don't drink, so I skipped the middle, but I really appreciated the restaurant reviews (I'm going to add the Chops+! package) and the realistic port stops. Good info

Going next week!!

Hey great video. Keep it up.

Same experience in Falmouth, Jamaica. We thought we could just do a walking tour on our own but it was a bit too intimidating so we ended up at the Margaritaville pool all day.

Well said and explained, went there 6 month ago

Thank you very much for your honest yet humorous review! 😂 I love this ship. ❤ I want to book a family cruise next year. Possibly 13 of us.( includes 4 children). Would you consider this cruise line to be reasonably priced for family cruise and best options for entertaining children, or should I continue to shop around a little?

Thanks for the review! I never heard of Freeport, Jamaica? I have been to Freeport in the Bahamas.

I’m going on the cruise today and I can see the ship from my hotel!!!

You have very charming voice, great review!

One of the skaters has a vlog, and I love following the daily life of the crew.

Like the way you did th8s review

You can still get a physical cruise compass at guest services btw sir .

This felt like Eeyore did a review that ended with...and we enjoyed it so much that we booked another cruise. LOL. Labadoozies, gross? They are awesome!

They sure have taken aesthetics to a whole new level, those tables are placed that way because you can see the interior balconies while walking around the ship and taken away from from those with ocean views.

Very well put together video! When was this sailing? Was that your final price you paid for the drinks package and the unlimited beverage package? I personally don't see myself sailing on Wonder for a long time. After 4 Royal cruises in a row from May 2022 to May 2023, I feel like this cruise line has too many cons for me to stay loyal. I would sail them again in the future, but there are too many others out there on my list to try. Their food has been mostly disappointing with the exception of Giovanni's Kitchen. I find their pricing on some of their extras to be a bit outrageous. I chose to sail on Carnival Celebration next Nov 2024 instead of Wonder. A balcony on Celebration was about $700 each, while Wonder was $1000 each for an interior. I'm just not blown away enough by Royal to pay that much for an interior. Anyway, thanks for posting and added a "like" for you.

Amazing review, with both pros and cons. I am looking forward to your Icon of the seas tour. I am still debating if a Cruise is for me and partner, we watched this together and it seems too busy and not very organized. The part where you highlight those early morning risers to claim a deck chair made me cringe, felt like a cheap holiday!

Well done!

You also can use the vanity table. It pulls out and can go out to the deck.

We sailed on Nov 5. You get printed cruise compasses if you stay in Sky Class suites.

Ok, so, imagine this. The ship is going on a transatlantic, and winds are picking up. Winds hit the table, and the medium-sized table, being not quite strong, will fly off of the balcony into the window or outside of the balcony into another window. Now, the smaller table, it’s aerodynamic, resistant, it won’t fly off of the balcony like the medium sized table. That’s why.

I was on oasis of the seas at Orlando on the 18th of june

Thanks for video. Is buffet including or we have to charge?

I was on that cruise with you

Pretty fair review overall. BTW, if you request a paper cruise compass from your steward, they will provide you one, each night, for the next day ☕📰. We've been cruising for 20+ years. Whatever things you thought were a tad annoying on RCC....well, let me suggest you cruise several other cruise lines; then, then do a comparison review. ❤

The food and beverage packages are so frustrating as they do not explain any of this or tell you what the cost is while going through the booking process. I tried finding all this info out but gave up when I got to the payment screen before being able to view packages. The only option given was the prepaid gratuity. Trying to decide if it's Disney or Royal Caribbean for a family of 4 with a current 9 year old girl and a current 16 year old girl.

Would you please tell me why kind of drone or what you use when I see the remote in your hand.

Excellent review! I'm booked in March 2024 and I can't wait. What is the name of the shuttle service you used? I was debating on a shuttle that you can designate what time you want to leave or just getting and Uber.

Can u get a print out of the cruise compass from customer service? That’s just crazy you can only get to it online. We like to highlight it and take it with us.

Hi, do you think that the 12 deck is quiet enough for sleeping in the Wonder? Thanks

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What's up with that "table"?

Thanks for the review. I am surprised Haiti is a port of call despite the violent gangs and do not travel notices.

Small tables for ocean view balconies probably so the ocean view is less obstructed.

Solid and direct review. The tiny balcony table makes no sense.

I think cruises had issues with ppl throwing tables overboard, wonder if that is the reason

I got Chops Grille for lunch for $80 for three adults at Anthem, holy shit. Maybe it's because I booked it months before or that it's a different ship idk

Will you do a brutally honest review of icon of the seas?

We we3re on the Wondwr also. I'm Diamond, and never saw worse theater shows on any Royal ship. Usually they're great, but this ship they were awful, in my opinion.

I wanna ask if you bring the champagne on your own?

subbed just bc the gag me with a spoon comment....poor zoomers and their corny social tok content haha

What drink was that at 6:00?

Correction, Freeport is Bahamas. Falmouth is in Jamaica.

We on bord wonder of the seas last night we went to main dining room to see if it lived up to what claimed sad to say no the food is no wow factor service nothing to stay properly be only time we go

Cruise lines do nit have enough crew. They do not pay the crew enough. It will be circus in the future if companies do not change approach to the crew.

I think this dude works for Carnival or something 😂 have had completely opposite experiences on RC

We love Labadee more than CocoCay.

That whole thing looks like a floating hell on earth.

Thought his commentary was a little to negative. Would like to see more pros and cons not everyone shares the same views.

it's an island not a peninsula.

should have left your wife at home lol

Honest Review of Wonder of the Sea The ship is huge…. Just added more cabins, more overprice Dining options, less venues for activities. Compare to other Oasis class, this has worst layout and less activities resulted boring cruise experience. Super difficult to find a seat at all venue. Music Hall and Bolero is smaller, while Karaoke and photo shop are super large. Service was excellent throughout the ship, including Dining Room and Windjammer. Excellent services provided by Erwin Nelson - Pool bartender, Noor of Windjammer, Fernando of Windjammer greeter, Ping at the Diamond Lounge, Juluis of Chef in kitchen and Anderson Perego of the pool towel station. The Captain is very friendly. The Beverage and Hotel Director Erfin is too pride to talk/listen and be friend with passengers. Dining Room for lunch and Dinner: Due to cost cutting, poor food quality. Very limited selection, limited to 3 appetizers and 3 main dishes. Menu is 12 years old and boring. Do not expect to have lobster until the 13th days. Pork Chops are always over cooked and very tough. However, service is wonderful, but need minor adjustment as to coordination and cooperation. Diamond Lounge: Usually there is a line for coffee. The 2 coffee machines break down daily and often. One machine has been leaking for 8 days. Also, we need more than 2 coffee machines for so many members. Mr. Ping of Beverage Dept. in Diamond Lounge is very good in cleaning and reset the coffee machines constantly. Music: Third class. Bands at the Top Stage of Royal Promenade is a total waste. People just walk by and treat them as random noise that no one enjoy. Only 1 out of 50 people takes time to look up at the top stage noise makers. Boleros: Only place to dance on the ship. The LATIN band only plays the Mexican Pechanga and nothing else. At our request, they start playing Latin songs Cha Cha, Rumba, etc. at the end of the cruise. Not a true Latin band. The dance floor only fits 10 couples dancing for 7000 passengers. Sorrento: Separation of pizza from the drink and snack counter created confusion, and people flow problem. Sport Activities: Great. Zip line is super short. Production show: Wonderful and enjoyable. Enforcers 2 is fantastic. No more Broadway shows. Overall: Boring cruise unless you are super active in sport.

Eating out with you guys sounds miserable! If your at a buffet food allergies are your responsibility.

I dislike the term “honest review” or even “brutally honest review”. Is this opposed to a dishonest review?😂

To give a brutally honest review of this review vid....I was completely bored and found myself uninterested in the monotone voice over. I also found myself completely uninterested about the whole gluten free portion. I just lost interest in the review, not the ship. Hearing reviewers complain about the smallest things is also a turn off. Thanks.

This was the worst cruise I ever did. Way too many people. Bigger is NOT better.

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