This is my 3rd cruise. This is the first time I cruised with children and that is why we chose this particular cruise. There is plenty of things for kids to do. Teen clubs, Camp Carnival for the little ones, an arcade and some cat in the hat festivities. The kids were plenty happy. Except my little one went to Camp Carnival one day and was not interested in going back. The camp gives you a cell phone that you can keep for the duration of the cruise so when your child is in camp, they can call you if there are any issues. You must return it the last day or will be charged $150. I was very pleased about the phone. They do not take children under 6 to the pool which I was also very comfortable with. My only complaint with the kid portion is, one night there were a group of teenagers near the arcade and they were getting into a fight. Slapping each other, etc. It was getting increasingly heated as I waited for my teen daughter to come out of the arcade. The most shocking was a security person walked right through the fight and did nothing about it. There was no way he missed it. That made me feel that security on the boat made need to be revamped.

If you do not have children with you, I do not recommend this cruise. There was never enough seating at the pools. The pools are also small. They say that they put timer cards on lounges that look like they are being saved, but I never saw one sign on a chair. I often had to sit in a chair at a table, in the shade to be near my kids swimming since all chairs were used or being saved for hours.

It is very hard to get from the AFT to FWD on the boat. Only 2 floors go all the way through. Often, you have to go up to go down, or visa versa. It took a few days to remember how to go to get from one end of the boat to the other without frustration. Read more