My wife and I, plus 2 grown up children and their partners approached this trip with real excitement, lot least as we had waited over a year to go on one of the "worlds largest ships"! So we were not surprised when we first set eyes upon her, she is enormous. Joy and I have cruised on many occasions, so had an idea what to expect, my daughter and partner were on their third cruise and my son and wife on their second. First of all, embarkation was very well handled; from parking the car to getting handed a glass of champagne on the ship was less than half an hour, which is very good indeed. Our luggage was with us 1.5 hours later that is a record, so well done RCCI that is as good as it gets in our eyes.

This was only a mini cruise, but we sure packed a lot in; Day One, explored the ship, easy as we had been on a Voyager class ship previously, and found the layout and most of the interior to be almost the same (that was surprise number one), but being new it did have that extra dimension with a few little changes. We were dining on main sitting in the dining room as a family of 6, but having checked our "sea passes" found we were not together (surprise number two), but on two different floors and two different tables, so we joined the queue to see the restaurant manager who changed this to a table for six very quickly(blaming H.O. in Miami)so we could sit together. Upon arrival at our new table that evening (cards delivered to stateroom, with table number) we found that it was a table for four! Now that is just not good enough RCCI (I know you read these reviews), we expected better organization than this, particularly as we had taken the trouble to changed it on boarding the ship ourselves, the food was fine, not great, but good all the same.

The first nights show (Centre Stage) was very impressive, and of the very highest quality, the musicians were just incredible, top quality playing and we can say without any hesitation that they were the best we have ever come across in 36 other cruises. The quality of the singers and dancers were also of such high quality, we were asking ourselves if we were on Broadway, or the West End of London - it was that good! Read more