On going up the gangway upon embarkation I noticed a large black trailer parked next to the beautiful dark hulled ship with a decal sporting "Miami Dive Team".I wondered back on this as we had a constant irritating vibration for the first two days that made me think something with the propulsion units was out of sync. The front desk offered no explanation. The jiggling stopped after the first 2 days.

We docked with the port side facing the towns of Philipsburg, Kingstown, Bridgetown, Basseterre and the glorious beach of HMC. Frederiksted, St. Croix we were escorted to the dock which faced town by a manned machine gun RHIB!!

In picturesque Philipsburg, St. Maarten we were dwarfed by the Allure Of The Sea, the Nieuw Amsterdam and the GEM. We were two of 15,000 passengers who swarmed the port that day. Read more