I work for a major airline and I am able to travel all over the world, but at the age of 40, this was my first cruise.
I traveled with a total party of 13, 5 adults and 8 teens, and while I enjoyed the fact that I was on vacation with my friends and family, I wish I had been anywhere else in the world OTHER than that cruise ship!
There were so many things wrong with this cruise, but most appalling of all was the horrible, raw sewage smell that pervaded our entire hallway, and seeped into our staterooms whenever the door opened. We tried to get the stench fixed. We spoke to the steward, called the pursur and then finally went as a group to the pursur's desk to ask for help. Our party had 4 rooms and others in the hallway congregated and went together as a group. Each time, we were told "an engineer would look into it". However, day after day, nothing changed, and we had to leave our rooms with towels over our faces to help keep out the horrible smells.