Your favourite RCI employees!

https://boards.cruisecritic.co.uk/showthread.php?t=740577

I was just enjoying the thread linked above. It is 9 years old so I won't bother resurrecting it, however, I want to resurrect the topic.

So, let's have it like this (although feel free to omit any that you don't have an answer for):

Favourite Captain -

Favourite Cruise Director -

Favourite Activities Manager -

Favourite Hotel Director -

Favourite Concierge -

Favourite Waiter -

Favourite Stateroom Attendant -

Feel free to add any more employees that you liked. I think it is important that RCI sees the appreciation of people for their crew.

Don't have favorites in any of the other areas, but ..

Favorite Cruise Director: Marc "Bing Bong" Walker.

Sailed with him twice ..really nice guy, such great energy and always friendly & personable when out mingling.

Don't have favorites in any of the other areas, but ..

 

Favorite Cruise Director: Marc "Bing Bong" Walker.

 

 

Really nice guy, such great energy and always friendly when out mingling.

I haven't sailed with Marc, but he seems to be a really good CD. I enjoyed his Love and Marriage Game Show on YouTube.

PRESTON JACK- Bartender/Server his motto has been for years "the more the booze the better the cruise" such a wonderful delightful happy friendly gentleman.

Anyone else?

Actually with all honesty, we were on the Harmony this past May and it was our most favorite most wonderful crew, everybody was excellent, they will all be on the Symphony next year when she comes out.

Actually with all honesty, we were on the Harmony this past May and it was our most favorite most wonderful crew, everybody was excellent, they will all be on the Symphony next year when she comes out.

Harmony's crew was excellent all around in July, from the Stateroom Attendants to to the Cruise Director and Staff, Sports Staff, Hotel Director, Captain. All great.

I will be doing SY at some point next year, so I am glad that many of them will be moving over.

Luis at Solarium Bar on Harmony.

The folks in the shoreside call centers who I call to book after trying to use the Royal website and encountering various errors.

DL concierge Jay Jay Shim.

CD Graham Seymore

Bartender - Turnip in the Freedom Casino bar years ago. He was AWESOME and made our cruise.

Cabin Attendant - Bryan on Allure last year.

Can't give you a specific name but I have never had a bad cabin steward on any of my RCI cruises. All of them have been excellent.

I think that whole category takes the win.

George who used to be on the Navigator (2013) and did a different sanitize dance every day. He was a dance teacher in his home country every afternoon before windjammer opened for dinner he gave my then 9 year old daughter a private dance lesson. She is a dancer and that was some of the best instruction she has ever received.

On our last cruise. EXPLORER

DL Conseinge Jorge

waite staff for table 622 in MDR

Room steward Lin on deck 9.

hope we get to see them when we take our next Explorer cruise. We won't get to see Jorge, he's moving to Symphony

EASILY Hamza Rouin (waiter) on Explorer (recently moved to vision) and Faria Constancio (room attendant) are the best crew members we've ever encountered!

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I can only answer the stateroom attendant... Yara on Brilliance last summer. She was AMAZING!!!!

As far as the others? My answer would be all Disney Cruise Line. (Yara would fit in brilliantly on Disney if they'd put her in at some kind of level equivalent with the time she has on RCCL.)

Tanya Tongue - Activities manager (mostly on Grandeur). Fantastic.

PRESTON JACK- Bartender/Server his motto has been for years "the more the booze the better the cruise" such a wonderful delightful happy friendly gentleman.

Another vote for Preston, we haven't seen him since Liberty in 2011, which ship is he on now?

On that cruise we also had his lovely wife Debra as our cabin steward easily the best one we've ever had. Ever since we jokingly measure every steward by 'the Debra scale' and few come close.

Julie

Huangxiu Chang! She is the sweet and friendly young woman outside the Windjammer on Grandeur. While squirting your hand with sanitizer, she will make you smile and teach you some Chinese.

She is a joy bringer.

I have had mostly good service on the cruises that we have been on but my favorite CD- was definitely Bing-Bong and our all time favorite Stateroom attendant was Elmer on the Enchantment of The Seas in 2014. My kids loved him so much that one time when we docked next to the Enchantment they spent a lot of time trying to spot him walking around on deck.

My least favorite would probably be those we had on The Freedom of the Seas Oct 2016. I don't remember that much about the CD and our assistant waiter was very nice but the others just didn't live up to the ones we have had in the past. They didn't necessarily do a bad job and we didn't leave them a bad review but I guess after you have had some that are great you can't help but compare others to them.

Like she calls herself Suzy Q . She is the best. Have sailed 3 times with her. On the Brilliance, Serenade and most recently on the Anthem. We are now friends on FB, so we keep in touch regularly.

Peter Cocheko(spelling?) on Anthem. Best server, friend now, we have had on 15cruises. Maria, our bartender in Boleros, over the top fantastic.

Jose on Liberty, best cabin steward ever, wish I could find his last name.

Abe is a great CD as is Dru but Leigh and Erky from Turkey were the best sad they are gone.

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Favorite Waiter: Constantine (don't know the last name), but from my 1996 Viking Serenade cruise. The fact that after 21 years I still remember his name is a testament to his greatness.

Favorite Cruise Director: Leigh Xuereb (from his time on Independence of the Seas in 2015)

Favorite Cruise Director Staff (Activity Staff): Silvia Pristavkova, currently on Explorer of the Seas. She makes sure each and every passenger has an amazing time with all the activities. And she is even nice enough to hangout post-cruise (if she ever visits a port that is your hometown).

Haven't been on every ship but these are some of my favorites.

Art Auctioneer - Selma Junkoff ... Head Of Security - Don Fuller Round

Ship Nurse - Henrietta Badclam ... Casino Dealer - Althea Andrasia

Luggage Handler - Lester Carey ... Suite Concierge - Tony Diggs

Guest Service Desk Personnel - Xavier Breth & Dawn Boddeme

Zumba and Pilates Instructor - Landon McKeester

Housekeeping Director - Luke Bizzy ... Spa Acupuncturist - O. Howard Hertz

Assistant Navigator - Oliver D. Mapp

PRESTON JACK- Bartender/Server his motto has been for years "the more the booze the better the cruise" such a wonderful delightful happy friendly gentleman.

preston is great sail with him alot on liberty had him 3 times in the d+ lounge dink never ran out