If you have cruised before, you know many modern ships are a feast to the senses. On some of them, it's the gaudier the better. The lighting in the Miracle must have been designed by some guy who spent a lot of time in Vegas staring at neon. It is certainly a shocker to the senses, mostly the eyes. What a conglomeration of chrome, wood, glass, silver, neon, and most of all PURPLE. The main dining room has thousands (I would hazard a guess) of purple dome lights, reminiscent of cheap $8 globe lights you can get at Home Depot, only spray-painted purple. Absolutely purple.
Some people would probably be offended or at least put off by this. However, I hasten to add that I am not one of them. I actually thought it was over the top, in the way that you would enjoy visiting for a week, but not subjecting yourself to day in and day out at home! Again, I enjoyed it, though our party of four sure heard lots of comments about it. A few were positive.
OK, get over it, and get on with the review. We four, two couples in our sixties, and all having cruised numerous times before, thoroughly enjoyed spending much time on our adjoining balconies, reading, relaxing, snoozing, absorbing the warm breezes that were not available back home in North Carolina and West Virginia at this time of the Winter. That is, when we weren't eating breakfast, lunch, pizza, ice cream, dinner, and late night after the shows! We enjoyed the shows, especially a bonanza of Beatles music with dramatic lighting,costumes galore, and special effects that was dazzling, as well as taking us back a few decades to our youthful days when the Fab Four were THE music we related to. Uh oh, showing our age... Another entertaining show was with the comedy juggling duo, the Village Idiots. They did amazing stunts with knives, whips, balls, discs, anything you can juggle, and had a hilarious dialogue going the entire act.