Greetings CruiseCritic Friends. This was my fourth cruise and my first since finding CruiseCritic, so this will be my first review. I hope you find it helpful.

I went on this cruise as part of a group of 17 people: two grandmoms, three dads, four moms, and eight kids aged from seven to 13. The group was fine - nice friends - no complaints there. But overall I didn't love the cruise and wouldn't do it again, mainly because my kids were bored much of the time during the sea days. This cruise includes three sea days and three port days, so if you don't enjoy the sea days, it's a bummer.

My middle schoolers weren't interested in the planned youth activities for the most part, and my second grader doesn't do well in that kind of setting. I knew that going in, but hoped that the pools, hot tubs, water slide, and other deck activities would keep them entertained. That didn't work well, though, due to weather. Only one pool and hot tub can be covered on this boat - everything else is outside - and most of the time it was too cold, windy, and/or rainy for the deck activities. I thought there might also be, say, kid-friendly movies showing somewhere, because one of our cruises had that, but this one didn't. There weren't really any kid-friendly activities on board at all other than the youth activities and the aforementioned deck areas. So while we were at sea, the kids spent way more time than I'd have hoped in our cabin watching TV. Ugh. Read more