The Internet can be a useful tool when looking for information to help decide on a cruise. There is plenty of data available, with some of it even being accurate.

If even half of what I've read is true, I thought I could expect the following on my first HAL cruise;

Dining on bland, easy to chew, cuisine, topped off with a glass of fine Ensure. Swapping stories about the good old days with tablemates like Jessica Fletcher, Matlock and the Golden Girls, then dancing to the rocking tunes of a Lawrence Welk cover band to the wee small hours of, say, eight or eight thirty. Cautiously walking the passageways, always on the lookout for stampeding wheelchairs. Read more