We ave been on 12 cruises before. We drove into Bayonne from Virginia. The drive was not to bad but be prepared for the toll roads. Some of the tolls were $14.00. Overall we paid about $65.00 in just tolls. We parked with premier parking not at the cruise port. They were $12.00 ad day compared to the cruise port of $19.00 a day.

This ship was the largest we had been on to-date . The promenade was a nice change. We had great sailing super smooth for most of the trip. Coming back from Boston we ran into a northeaster storm followed by hurricane Joaquin. We had 48 knot winds most of the time back , some more than that. We had waves breaking over our windows on the 2nd floor room 2664. Yes the ship did move around some but not as bad as I would have expected with sustained winds of 55 MPH. That is gale force winds. We also has some at over 60 MPH. In Virginia when the hurricane came thru many years ago did lots of damage with winds much less than what we had on this cruise. We never saw anyone get sick or green around the gills.LOL.

This ship has (4) stabilizers that had to be working overtime. Read more