Night life on reflection

[edgekid]

We are booked on the Jan 2018 Ultimate Caribbean cruise..We have been on the Equinox which we loved during the day, but after the show and dinner,found very little to do at night except drink or go to Karaoke which was usually near empty…Does anyone know if the Reflection is any different?

Edited January 18, 2017 by edgekid

[jelayne]

I don't think the ship makes any difference. We have been on the Solstice 4 times, some cruises the Sky Lounge was busy late with lots of folks dancing & having a great time. Another cruise maybe 10 people in the Sky Lounge at 11.

 

The passenger demographics & what music is available late make the difference IMHO. The Silent Disco bombed in Celler Masters but was a blast in the Sky Lounge.

[dgparent]

My 2 cents ring your own entertainment, X is not exactly known for late nights. Sounds like you are on a longer cruise in Jan ? Probably not the late night demographic you are looking for. Friends of ours don't like X just for this reason they do Carnival, because there is more to do later at night. We just do things together we usually meet a few couples that like to sit and have a few drinks and shoot the BS, or we play cards at the Sunset Bar and go to the Casino.

[keesar]

We have been on the Reflection numerous times. There is dancing in the foyer on deck 3 in the evening. The dance floor in rather small but people have a good time dancing and watching. They try to have evening theme parties but these are generally not well attended. Much revolves upon the demographics of the cruise.

 

We have gone to the Sky Lounge later in the evening where we have been among just a few dancing. What had been really popular and well attended were comedians in Sin City at Celebrity Central. Nowadays they may have a guest comedian there late in the evening. Definitely worth going. Check out Celebrity Today when onboard.

[TFLG]

If it wasn't for the fact I usually cruise with a large group of friends I would probably go on Royal rather than X. The night life is hit and miss, but mostly miss. The Sky Lounge is usually busy until 11 or 12 if the music is decent, sometimes it goes even later. Pretty sure Reflection does not have the Quasor club, so I don't know what there is to do once the Sky Lounge shuts down. On the other S class ships we would head down to Quasor once sky lounge died. Some nights it would be hoppin, but most nights it was 20 people or less. Still fun with our group though.

[fielddreamer]

We were on Reflection in Dec and the night life was really hopping every night. They have not one but two DJ's on the ship and theme party's almost every night. The 80's disco night was jammed with people on all 3 levels. One of the reasons I had not sailed with them prior to this cruise that the nights on the ship seemed low key. But, when I saw they changed the entertainment director 2 years ago and saw and read some blogs we took a chance and it worked out fine for us. Everyone has their own like's and dislike's so it all depends on what you are looking for. I had sailed Princessthe last 3 cruises and found that the nights on their ships were really low energy for us ! Too each his own ! Bob

Edited January 18, 2017 by fielddreamer

[Gerrym]

We have been on a number of Solstice class ships. Generally the nightlife is really good. However I would say that on Reflection it is not up to the levels of Eclipse, Equinox or Solstice. The main 2 reasons for this in my opinion is that the Sky lounge is much smaller on Reflection and the nightclub is missing from the Reflection. We still enjoyed ourselves but the spots that offer nighttime entertainment are very crowded compared to the sister ships.

 

 

Cheers

 

Gerry

[Bob7]

We are booked on the Jan 2018 Ultimate Caribbean cruise..We have been on the Equinox which we loved during the day, but after the show and dinner,found very little to do at night except drink or go to Karaoke which was usually near empty…Does anyone know if the Reflection is any different?

We were on Reflection in Dec and the night life was really hopping every night. They have not one but two DJ's on the ship and theme party's almost every night. The 80's disco night was jammed with people on all 3 levels.

Just got off the Refl in January, Fielddreamer is right, below is taken from my cruise review:

... new entertainment feature which was awesome – the Silent Disco. (It should not be called a disco). The first one was held in the largest dancing venue, the Sky Lounge. On entering you get wireless sound-proof headphones which play 3 different music channels, and glow green, red, or blue depending on what channel you selected. Your color is quite visible to everyone else, so you can see what others are dancing to, and what is the popular song of the moment. One channel is older mo-town style, one is 80-90’s rock, and one is new rock. So everyone dances to the song they like, and you can’t hear anything except your song. If you don’t like the song, you just change channels. When you take off your headphones it’s hilarious, no sound on the dance floor except ppl singing along, groups of girls jumping up and down singing “I Don’t Care! … I Love It!” and “I wanna be Jesse’s girl!”. Like very bad karaoke, or a zombie dance party. When there wasn’t room on the dance floor ppl danced around the tables. Some couples were dancing together but listening to a different channel, but they seemed to make it work, and no argument about what song to dance to. A DJ cuts into the song when the crowd needs to know something … like “take the drinks off the dance floor”. The headphone staff told us this started at land clubs about 6 months ago. It was just a hoot. DW said she would order a drink when a bad song came along, but it never did, and she danced so long she got a blister (but it would not be hard to get a blister in those little strappy “shoes”).

 

Another night it was held in the Solarium with all the loungers removed, but that had less of a club atmosphere and was more like a rave. The host did a drink event where everyone was asked to test and rate 2 new cocktails. Large tables were filled with champagne glasses half full of one of the cocktails, they were fairly strong, and ppl could drink all they wanted. It was being videoed, we had to sign a release on entering. The object seemed to be to get everyone buzzed fast for a hot video. One drink was ok, the other was weird. We got better drinks on our drink plan at the bar there. Everyone still had quite a hoot, it gets a lot of ppl dancing and singing. They also did this one late afternoon at the pool, and everyone screamed for more when the DJ tried to shut it down. It didn’t look like the older folks wanted to try it, there was no one at any of these events over 45 or so, but there was lots of big band swing music in the foyer area for them, and they were having a good time.

Edited January 18, 2017 by Bob7