All I can say is I would not sail this class ship again. While Royal Caribbean did a great job on the ship to make you feel not crowded and the service was fine. Here are my complaints.

The ship layout. The entire Stearn of the ship is dedicated to Kids and Sports Three Decks worth, not even mentioning there is no kids pool back there so the main pool is also dedicated to kids. Keep in I travelled with a 11 y/o and a 13 y/o. This Leaves only the Adult pool area for adults. It would Be nice to have a place outside to have a drink at night but all those bars closed almost before dinner. The Lounges are located in the promenade and felt like I was having a drink in the mall waiting for my wife to finish X-mas shopping instead of in the Caribbean.

Ports of Call it seems to me the ports don't even want a ship this big in there port because the Capt. had trouble twice getting clearance to dock or tender. One delay made me have an excursion cancelled. The only one that went smoothly was Labadee. Oh forgot to say we were the only ship not to go to Cozumel because the ship was too big to tender and the docks are destroyed. I ve been on three cruises and been a fishing boat Capt. for 20 years. The ship does not handle a head sea well because of its width. 6 to 9 foot seas should not have Pitched the ship so much luckily my family does not get seasick and this turned out to be fun because they left the pools open and we swashed around in there waiting to get thrown out of the pool on big waves. But there were a lot of sick people and that sort of dampened the attitude on the ship on the first sea day. Read more