Adventure of the Seas - a transatlantic voyage
Caroline on shore in Arrecife, a port city on the east coast of Lanzarote, one of Spain’s Canary Islands. We were still a bit gun-shy after the disastrous cruise on Royal Caribbean's Voyager of the Seas in June. The Adventure of the Seas and Voyager of the Seas are both from Royal Caribbean’s older Voyager Class of cruise ships. More than half of the passengers headed to Europe on the Adventure (going there for repairs and upgrades) were planning to board the Voyager in Barcelona 4 days after disembarkation in Lisbon for the return to Florida. However, we had canceled that return cruise immediately upon finishing our cruise on the Voyager in June, so our plans were to have 2 days in Lisbon and 2 days in Barcelona to explore before flying back to Denver. That terrible cruise on the Voyager was not the fault of the ship's layout; rather, the food was submarginal and staff kept canceling events listed on the Cruise Compass newsletter. For my friends returning to Florida...