We chose this cruise as we traveled with our son's family with grandkids ages 8, 5. and 2 and didn't want to fly. It was Easter week so we knew there would be lots of kids. My husband and I are seasoned cruisers having cruised over 40 times with carnival, celebrity, holland america, royal caribbean, princess and cunard.

Embarkation - Horror show - We arrived at the port at 11;30am and it took over an hour to get thru security and registration. On board, we were told it would be at least until 1:30pm before we could get into our rooms so we went to buffet for lunch as grandkids had been on the road for 5 hours and hungry. The buffet was slammed, no tables available. Went to the pub but couldn't get in. We went back up and got food and ate on the lounge chairs by the pool! The ship was full so they needed to make better accomodations for lunch. The first dayon a cruise is always a zoo but we had never experienced such a disaster as this. If you are traveling with young kids during school vacations, bring food with you. We didn't get into our room until 2;00pm. People finished eating but just sat around at the tables because they couldn't get into their rooms.

We had 2 balcony rooms next to each other. We requested the room attendant to open the divider between the balcony but he said he couldn't do it due to safety issues. It was very disappointing as we didn't have adjoining rooms with 2 grandkids with their parents, and 1 with us. Anyway, we were able to open the balcony ourselves and did it occasionally. Read more