My wife and I approached this with some fear and trepidation due to a prior review of the same Yorktown cruise among the U.S. and British Virgin Islands a few weeks before ours, which commenced from St. Thomas on Friday, January 17, 2014. We need not have feared.

Excellent cabin with fine view, plenty of luggage storage space and nice fresh linens and towels. temperature control was fine and there was always plenty of hot and cold water for showering.

Everything was perfect from embarkation and disembarkation procedures to on-board food and entertainment and instructional lectures. We very much enjoyed the various snorkeling and sightseeing expeditions that were part of the cruise. Our cabin was very nice and was kept up very well throughout our stay. Captain Jim Annnicelli was superb as the master of a small cruise ship, doing fun bridge tours, even helping out in the dining room and with going ashore in the ship's inflatable boats, and playing a mean piano in the ship's lounge. Cannot sing the praises of this ship and its crew enough!