we flew into Tampa the day before and stayed at the Hampton Inn in Ybor City...never again wouldn't recommend it, the hotel is nice but the area around it is shady to say the least. Boarding the ship was easy, took less than an hour from dropping our bags off to sitting in the Lido deck. The layout of the ship is quite different from the others we have been on and was confusing for a while... I never did quite get my bearings and can't count the times I walked past our stateroom!

The serenity area at the back of the ship is lovely, too bad people liked to put their towel on the amenities and then walk off for hours on end. Nothing like sharing eh!

Our stateroom was right after mid-ship on the panorama deck and i wouldn't recommend it at all, the noise from people dragging chairs across the lido deck all night is loud and annoying. I got one good nights sleep the rest were interrupted by all the banging.Great deck to be on but move to the front part of the ship where the floors above you are carpeted. Read more