A little congested driving into the port, and we had to queue to get out of our town car from our hotel. This only took about 5 minutes. The porters were clear that a tip was appreciated, although a big sign indicated it was optional -worth keeping some money from your trip in new york.
Short queue check in - we waited about 10minutes, then sat in departure area for about 20 minutes. 
All clean, toilets available, no real problems.

New York (Brooklyn, Red Hook)

Perfectly adequate cabin, close to forward observation deck and bridge viewing area and covered deck 12 pavilion pool/bar. A lot of stairs from the restaurant (unless you take the lift) and does tend to move a bit in rough weather.

Kings Court - 24 hours a day food of course - dinner ends at 11- then have another buffet hot meal until 4am, then cold breakfast until 6, then hot breakfast, lunch, cream tea, afternoon snacks, and back to dinner etc 
We had some hot food once to say we had tried it -1am after our trip to disco - chinese noodles/sweet chilli chicken etc - it was fine, but we preferred the slower pace and service of the main dining room.Its too formal - we enjoyed dressing up - ladies wore all sorts of length dresses on formal nights, there was no rigidity -in fact people did ignore the dress code all together especially in the commodore club we noticed and no-one was singled out or made to leave ,but it was nice to see everyone in their finery (even if my dinner jacket was one of those cheap M&S ones)
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New York to Southampton, 4-11th May 2012

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