I just wanted to mention some of the highlights of our trip. Getting on the ship was terrible. We got to port around 12:30pm and it took us over 2 hours to get on the ship. I was hot and tired. Some of the older people were having to ask for help to find some rest from standing in line so long. This was the worse part of the trip for us. Maybe next time I'll pack the smallest convertible stool I can find.

Once on the ship things were much better. We had extended balcony on the upper deck. It was very nice but one of the balcony lounge chair arms were broken and my husband was constantly trying to fix it. The balcony table was broken too. We did not notify them about this we just dealt with it. Not a big deal. After we dropped off our bags we headed for lido deck and some drinks.

One early morning I heard a strange noise coming from what I thought was the hallway. When I went to investigate, one of the shelves in out bathroom had shattered and when I say shattered, I mean blew up all over the place. We had glass everywhere. I notified the front desk since it was too early for the cabin stewart to be on. They were at our door within 15 minutes and cleaned all the glass up but left what remained of the shattered shelf there for 2 days. One night our son was changing his contacts in the bathroom and he started complaining that something was hurting his eye real bad. We were so scarred it was a piece of glass from the remaining shelf. Thank God his pain passed with no medical attention needed. It was probably sand from the beach. Read more