EMBARKATION WOW! We flew in from Austin, Texas and arrived in the airport at around noon. The port is about a ten minute bus ride from the airport. Check in was AMAZING! It was the shortest wait time we have ever had for a cruise, which is a little ironic to me because we were boarding the ship with the largest passenger capacity in the world (and apparently our voyage broke another passenger record?). Our wait time in the terminal was less than five minutes with NO line. We were onboard by 12:30.

THE 'FELLOW' GUESTS I DID NOT LIKE THE OTHER PASSENGERS! By far they were the worst group I have travelled with on a cruise. As an English speaking person, I can tolerate hearing anything but English for a few days, but seven days is WAY too much Chinese, Spanish, Portugese, and I have no idea what else. And it's not so much that they weren't speaking English, I HAVE NOTHING AGAINST THAT, I'm not a mean person like that, but what got annoying is that they were RUDE! Things like cutting in lines, jumping in elevators when you have waited forever to get in one, being loud, saving seats and then not speaking English when people try and tell them you can't save seats, stuff like that. AND THEN COME THE KIDS... SPOILED OBNOXIOUS BRATS! I don't think I'll say anything else on the kids except that I wanted to give some a few light slams now and then (well heavy slams all the time).

THE ROOM We had Boardwalk View balcony 9329 (the very last balcony before the Aqua Theater). It was basically a standard room size with a balcony to the boardwalk. The balcony is not very private, but as we were not in the room most of the time, it was GREAT for watching the shows and people watching. The bathroom was a new design I'm guessing because I've never seen one like that. It was ok, just not a lot of counter space and a VERY shallow sink. Read more