Overall nice ship and the activities/entertainment were decent but the weather was awful.
Embarkation: Not so smooth, very disorganized with no clear direction of where to go or what we were doing. The address provided brought us too far down so we had to walk several blocks back and them try to figure out where to go. The wait wasn't too bad but we felt a couple signs would have made it much less painful. We checked in and they told us to go sit and wait for our number to get on the ship. We sat and finally someone came over and asked us why we were sitting there. Apparently they had boarded our group before we checked in. Sailing in and out of Manhattan is really special.
Stateroom: Very nice, lots of storage, we could see out between lifeboats. Very old TV but the ship status was wonderful (reported see conditions, temp and ship position). Sleeping in our stateroom was not good. This room would be perfect for a night owl but we generally go to bed around 10ish and the karaoke lounge directly was active till about 1AM and we could clearly hear every song. The Jewel needs a lot more sound insulation.
Very nice, lots of storage, we could see out between lifeboats. Very old TV but the ship status was wonderful (reported see conditions, temp and ship position). Sleeping in our stateroom was not good. This room would be perfect for a night owl but we generally go to bed around 10ish and the karaoke lounge directly was active till about 1AM and we could clearly hear every song. The Jewel needs a lot more sound insulation.