Our family of 5 sailed on the August 2 sailing of this awesome ship. We had read so many negative reviews before sailing and were perplexed as we had sailed on the Magic (sister ship) the summer before and everyone thoroughly enjoyed it. I wish more people would write about their positive experiences because the people we talked to seemed to be enjoying themselves.

Our sailing had 4600 guests, so we should have experienced the extreme crowding that other cruisers complained of. We did not! Embarkation and disembarkation were a "breeze". We were on the ship by 11am. It appeared to us that some passengers created their own issues, e.g. not having luggage tags secured.

The Breeze had adopted a deck chair reserving policy. The attendants would put a sticker with the time on unoccupied chairs saved by towels/belongings. After 40 minutes, they would remove the towels/belongings. I was up early on sea days, so appeared to be working well with lots of deck chairs available well into the morning. Read more