Have any fellow aussies travelled on the Rhapsody of the Seas recently. How do you rate the ship ?
I’m not an Australian, but the Rhapsody was stationed in Galveston, TX (near where I live) for a few years and I know the ship pretty well. The last time I was aboard was a year and a half ago, and it’s a very pretty ship with lots of artwork. It’s a pretty clean ship and has never had a (reported) outbreak of Norwalk or Legionnaire’s. It’s not a terribly old ship in the first place (only 12 years old I think this year) and it’s already been drydocked for rehab twice – quite impressive maintenance on what is, after all, one of the smaller ships in RCI’s current fleet. The main dining room is the 2-story variety, situated quite low in the ship (deck 4 & 5) which is nice for reducing sway during dinner. I rather liked the size of the ship, which at 75,000 tons & 2400 passengers, is large enough to not make people seasick, and yet not so large that there’s long lines for everything. However, it doesn’t have some of the features of the largest ships in the fleet – there’s no movie theater,
