We did the Christmas cruise (husband and I). I've been on other Christmas cruises and didn't particularly like the large amount of kids/families. However, on this ship I never felt crowded or that the cruise was taking on a Disney theme. In fact, there were a few times we looked at each other and asked "where is everyone?" We had dinner in Chops and Portofino. Both were great. I felt it was well worth the extra money. It was a shame since we had some nice table partners at our large dining room. We only had dinner once in the main dining room. We both felt the staff kept the ship clean and that anytime that we were near the windjammer buffet, it felt clean and well kept. In fact, we ran into some of the best crew members in the windjammer. One night we had just wanted a light quite dinner with a bottle and spent it in the windjammer. This was not something we had ever done before and something I never imagined that we would enjoy quite so much.

One suggestion that we had for the ship was to come up with more small crowd activities. I've seen enough belly flop contests to last for a long long time - and we like to party and have fun. . . i guess it just gets a little old to see the same activities. We had to smile at the changes RCCL made with the Quest game show. It was still fun to watch and we imagine that the new format helps with injuries! We took a rear balcony cabin. It wasn't nice. I would never do that again. The balcony doesn't overlook anything and it was our fault for not checking this ahead of time. We've had other rear cabins that were nice but this ship layout it wasn't good. Don't do it.