I was a bit concerned on the mixed reviews seen on this site - I would say that it very good in some aspects, could do better in others, (not terrible like other reviews) - but didn't have any specific areas that were excellent. Good activities, food avg, entertainment avg, smokey casino long wait times throughout ship. Need to be on top of your schedule.

We have sailed RCL, Carnival and first time with Norwegian. We were a party of 6, my parents, my wife and 2 kids age 8 and 10.

Activities - this was key for my kids. The ropes course and waterslides were very good on the ship. I believe with the drop waterslide, there is nothing quite like it at sea (min 100 lbs). You are placed in a capsule, then the floor drops and you have enough speed to slide upwards in one portion of the slide. The other slides for kids do generate pretty good g forces on the corkscrew section. The main issue is the limited hours for the supervised activities. Either the rock wall was open or the ropes course was open, and only had 2-4 hours of availability every day. On days at sea, this ended up being 45-60 min wait per activity - so get there 15-20 mins before it opens if you only want to wait 45 mins. Otherwise it is longer and risk not getting in before they close. The breakaway bounce (trampoline + bungee cords) was almost never open. Fortunately we stayed on board during the Cape Canaveral stop and had much of the ship to ourselves. There are 2 pools, one main pool (basically kids pool) and the adults only pool. The water is heated, which was a great feature when sailing out of New York in March. Weather is still cold until you reach Florida after a couple days at sea. The splash zone looks pretty fun for smaller kids, mine were not interested. They played the minigolf maybe 4 or 5 times, again, sometimes needed to wait due to volume of people. It is a pretty good minigolf 9 hole course with structures and sea creatures not a generic putting surface with wood obstacles. Didn't do bowling (extra paid activity and was busy). Read more