Brilliance of the Seas is a radiance class ship, ready to welcome guests of all ages onboard to experience the joy of seeing the world on a Royal Caribbean voyage. A well-equipped ship, filled with great dining venues, lounge bars and entertainment facilities, including everything from kids' club to the Broadway-style shows, there is something to suit all tastes onboard Brilliance of the Seas. No matter whether you're enjoying a family holiday or a romantic retreat, choose this incredible vessel for a voyage that won't disappoint.
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What's onboard
Dining
Cuisine and dining onboard Brilliance of the Seas offers the fantastic fare and high standards you would expect of a Royal Caribbean ship. The Minstrel main dining rooms offers fabulous formal occasions, the Windjammer Cafe is ideal after a long day of shore excursions or sitting by the pool and Chops Grille is the ever popular steak house onboard.
Brilliance of the Seas boasts dining venues including the Chef's Table, Rita's Cantina — offering great Tex-Mex — Giovanni's Table — Royal Caribbean's latest Italian venue — and the Izumi Asian Cuisine restaurant.
Entertainment
Entertainment onboard Brilliance of the Seas is filled with fun, whatever your age. From the sophisticated evenings in the theatre or champagne bar, to the mini golf and Adventure Ocean® kids' club , there is something for everyone onboard. For the active folk onboard there is a rock climbing wall, waterslides in the kids' pool and, of course, a golf simulator.
There is also a great selection of lounge bars onboard, offering specialty coffees, cold beers and cocktails throughout the day. If you fancy a flutter head to the casino. The ship also has some new venues onboard to enjoy, such as the R Bar, the Pub and Vintages Wine Bar.
Family
Family fun is taken seriously onboard Brilliance of the Seas with something that's bound to please every member of the family.
- Royal Babies & Tots- kids aged 6-36 can play alongside their parents or guardians with activities designed to be engaging and fun.
- Adventure Ocean- an award-winning kids’ club, parents can relax knowing that their kids are having fun with others their age.
- Adventure Beach- a pool area specially designed so that the whole family can splash about in the water or chill on one of the loungers while the kids zip down the waterslides.
- Arcade- featuring the most popular retro arcade machines, the whole family could spend hours here.
Things to do
Brilliance of the Seas also boasts fantastic spa and fitness facilities, which enjoy the same, gorgeous panoramic views as the entertainment venues. The fitness centre boasts all the usual equipment, class and staff, while the ShipShape Spa offers an elegant escape from a busy day at sea — the perfect place for a little pampering!
If you can tear yourself away from the luxurious spa facilities, you will find an exciting variety of activities onboard Brilliance of the Seas. For those who enjoy life at a faster pace, head to the sports court and running track for a bit of friendly competition or reach new heights by scrambling up the climbing wall. If you’re after a more leisurely few hours, try your hand at golf on the mini putting green or have a game of pool.
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Iglu Cruise customer reviews for Brilliance of the Seas
Brilliance of the Seas is a fantastic Ship. Our room, an inside cabin through choice, was clean and tidy and well presented. Dining options were plenty and food was very good and tasty. The Windjammer always had a good selection of various foods. Staff were fantastic as always, nothing was too much trouble. We enjoyed it so much that we booked another Cruise on the same Ship!
Excellent trip on Brilliance of the seas dining experience was good and only busy on couple of occasions. Very well organised in every respect.
Great cruise holiday. Itinerary was very good and time spent in each destination was reasonable. Very clean ship, friendly service, with all amenities available. Food was excellent throughout the day. Drinks to expensive definitely not great value for money. Shows and general entertainment were very good. Swimming pool small for size of ship.
Great itinerary and ship. Very well looked after by the amazing crew and had a great cruise. Particular highlights were the trip to santorini and athens. Both gorgeous places to visit and booked great excursions that made the visits extra special. Ship was great but lacked pool facilities and entertainment could have been improved. Ship not too big but lots of the Ship felt empty as there didn't seem to be enough entertainment on at various points. Ship life revolves around the centrum (which is great when entertainment is on) but lack of seating means you're often standing whilst the other areas of the Ship are dead. Food in the windjammer buffet was good and there was plenty of choice. Kids enjoyed the variety for every meal and always found something they would like. We booked 'my time dining' but struggled to book any times I'd recommend booking a timeslot in the main restaurant and just cancelling if you decide not to go. You can also turn up without a booking but this wasn't made clear so we only ate in the main dining room once which was disappointing, but windjammer was good so didn't miss out. I would recommend attending the ship intro meeting if possible. A lot of the processes on the ship weren't explained at all suvh as how the drinks packages worked and dining reservations and it often took us a bit of time to work things out. This was our 5th cruise (3rd with Roysl Caribbean) and it is inevitably works slightly differenty each time. Overall facilities on the ship were a bit lacking - not enough entertainment or things to do compared to other Royal Caribbean ships we've cruised on. Used the gym a lot which was good and the kids had a great time at the kids club. Pool was always crowded and towels were down on sunbeds early which meant we struggled to get somewhere decent without sorting early. Excursions were expensive, but we booked most things locally which saved a lot money and were mostly the same companies. We booked a local tour of ephesus (which ended up almost being private with only two families) for 4 for the cost of a single person cost on the ship organised excursion. The same tour company was used and the ship excursion ended up being a group of 40+ which allowed us to beat the crowds on a more personalised tour. Overall a great experience but there were a few minor areas which could have been improved.
