We arrived and boarded about 12:30 p.m., embarkation was quick and seemless. Our bags arrived very quickly. Our room was beautiful. We met our cabin steward, Adhi, and had towel animals every day, our room was cleaned twice a day. WE chose the 6:00 p.m. seating, which on port days was kind of tough, but we were travelling with our two kids, and had 2.5 days of sailing going down and 2.5 days coming back, it worked out very well. The food was good at Bacchus (the main dining room), and Horatio's buffet and grill were good as well. The entertainment was good, and lots of choices of evening activities. The kids didn't use Camp Carnival too much, but the counselors were nice. They preferred to busy themselves about the ship, in the pool, playing chess, golfing and playing ping pong with a group of friends they made on the ship. All of our excursions were great! St. Marten we did the driving tour to both sides of the island and learned the history. St. Lucia was stunning! We did thew all day drive and catamaran back. We stopped at the volcano crater as well. St. Kitts, we did the rainforest hike and botanice gardens, also really nice. The service was great on this ship, and while this was our first cruise, it will not be our last. Our Cruise director was Malcom (Woo Hoo) and Buttercup. Debarkation was a breeze, we were group 5, and out very quickly. One thing I would do differently next time is get our own transporation, I think 120 for 4 of us, going and coming was pricey, and we had to wait wait much longer with the loading and unloading of other passengers. It was an amazing trip, we had the time of our lives.