I do think the Equinox has many good things about it. For instance, I very much like their buffet upstairs and many areas are attractive. That said, I find a number of things less pleasing. 1.) They have given 3/4 of one deck to alternate restaurants. That leaves less room for lounges and theaters. I find this increase in alternate restaurants to be unsettling. 2.) The main restaurant service was very slow. We were stuck in the far corner and thus got no air at all. We were sweating all through dinner every night. I also found it odd that there was the exact same breads for dinner every night. No variation. Just as there is almost the exact same food in the buffet every day for lunch and dinner. Exact same breads there, too. 3.) The theater is not user friendly. Many seats have blocked or partially blocked views. There is simply no place to set a drink. all you have is a hole in the arm of your chair and if your drink if there, your arm can't be. Due to the somewhat small size of the chairs, that's not good news. The entertainment was lackluster all but 3 nights. 4.) There is an appalling lack of storage in the balcony cabins. I hate those tiny boards jutting out from the wall that are supposed to be substitutes for night tables. They are not. There are only a few small drawers and ours were so hot from the adjacent refrigerator that I was nervous about putting some things in them. There was some storage overhead but not enough. Likewise, I found the closet to be smaller than on many ships. 5.) All that grass takes up space that could have been used for deck chairs. The only uses for it that I could see was horseshoes, bocce, and croquet-- not exactly hot entertainment in most people's books. Likewise, the glass show was been there; done that. Is there anyone over 10 that has not seen glass blown? 6.) The cabins were hot during most of the day. Thankfully, they cooled off at night.

Frankly, I did not like the design of the ship. The art was rather avant-garde and much of it was just dumb. I missed the usual large atrium. To me the center of the ship looks like an Embassy Suites.

Most of the ports on this cruise were very interesting. Cartagena was lovely, though blast furnace hot. Colon was filthy but there was much to see of interest in the environs. The Embera Indian village was great, as was the canal. Limon and Roatan were also of interest. I always like shopping in Cozumel, so that was fine. But Grand Cayman is a bore.