The main thing about the cruise was the kids club. DD8 really enjoyed it, it was very active (much more so than Princess and P&O) with lots of ball games and running around.

It's a pity that they don't have a printed list at the kids club for signing in, every time they opened there was a queue as every parent had to write out their child's name and the name of whoever was authorised to sign them out. On Princess ships they print out a list of all the kids every session and each parent only has to sign in one spot so there's never a queue to sign kids in or out.

The Windjammer buffet closed at 10pm which was the same time as the kids club. This means that you can't get kids a snack after the kids club. I think this is a very poor choice, if they even make it 15 minutes later it would be enough time for kids to grab a quick snack and save calling room service. Room service also took a while at that time of night, so there was presumably a reasonably high demand for food then. Read more