Royal Caribbean
Anthem Of The Seas
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Ship at a glance
Entered service
December 2015
Class
Quantum Class
Ship type
mega ship
Passengers
4,905
1,500 crew
Staff ratio
1 : 3.3
passengers per crew
Typical voyage
7-14 night
For kids
excellent
Registry
Bahamas
Last inspection
2025-05-16
99/100 · Excellent
CDC VSP
Entertainment onboard
- ice skating rink
- theater productions
- water slides
- casino
- comedy shows
Room categories
- Interior
- Oceanview
- Balcony
- Suite
- Virtual Balcony
Family features
- Adventure Ocean kids club
- water slides
- splash pad
- pools
- teen club
Ship specifications are AI-curated from public sources and confirmed against Royal Caribbean marketing copy. Rankquant's 54th percentile is computed independently across 820 z-qualifying Cruise Critic reviewers — see how percentiles are computed.
Life onboard
What it actually feels like to sail Anthem Of The Seas— entertainment, food, and the crowd you'll find onboard.
Entertainment
The entertainment program feels relentless in the best way—nightly theater productions, comedy clubs, live music across multiple venues, and high-energy deck parties keep the vibe buzzing from sundown onward. You'll find everything from Broadway-style spectaculars to intimate acoustic performances, plus daytime trivia, competitions, and activities for kids that genuinely keep families occupied without feeling forced.
Food & dining
The main dining room delivers solid three-course dinners with rotating menus, though specialty restaurants (steakhouse, Italian, Asian-fusion) are where the food gets interesting if you're willing to pay à la carte. The buffet is respectable with decent international variety, and grab-and-go options mean you won't go hungry between activities, though quality dips after peak hours.
Atmosphere
Anthem caters to the modern, active cruise crowd—families with school-age kids, couples who want engagement and technology, multigenerational groups looking for something to do every minute. It's upscale enough to feel polished and current, with plenty of digital bells (wearable keycards, app-driven shipboard services), but unmistakably mainstream cruise culture rather than luxury or expedition-focused.
The ship & service
A closer look at Royal Caribbean as a line, Anthem Of The Seas as a ship, and the service and deck quality to expect onboard.
- The line
- Royal Caribbean is mainstream cruising at scale, known for big ships packed with activities and broad family appeal at mid-market prices. It sits in the upper-mainstream tier - not premium or luxury, but more polished and innovation-driven than budget lines, best for families, multigenerational groups, and active travelers who want a resort-at-sea experience.
- The ship
- Anthem of the Seas is a Quantum-class mega-ship from 2015, still relatively modern and one of the larger vessels afloat at around 4,900 guests. The class is known for tech-forward signature features like the North Star observation pod, RipCord skydiving simulator, and the multi-purpose Two70 venue, giving Anthem a distinctly engineered, gadget-heavy personality versus older Royal Caribbean hulls.
- Service
- With roughly 3.3 guests per crew member, service runs efficient and friendly rather than personal or anticipatory - typical mainstream mega-ship staffing. Expect well-trained dining and stateroom crews who handle high volume capably, but not the name-recognition attentiveness you'd get on a premium or luxury line with a tighter ratio.
- Decks & spaces
- Public spaces feel contemporary and purpose-built, with a glass-heavy Royal Esplanade-style promenade, multi-level atrium, and an expansive pool deck designed for crowd flow. Materials lean modern (glass, steel, LED) rather than classic teak, and given the 2015 build with periodic Royal Caribbean refreshes, upkeep should be solid though high-traffic zones show the wear of a busy mega-ship.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this ship against every other ship those same people sailed and rated. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — four stars from someone who hands out fives means something very different from four stars from someone who rarely goes above three. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a star average.
- Global percentile
- Where Anthem Of The Seas lands against every ship we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — the other ships in the same fleet, so a line's budget hull is judged against its own sisters rather than against a luxury expedition ship. Ranked against Royal Caribbean (29 ships).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each ship keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 820.
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