Nice cruise, but getting back to the ship at 3:30 really limits all your port time. More later. We are a family of 4 of average sophistication.

We flew into Montreal the day before and took the 747 bus to our hotel. Very reasonable and it includes a 24 hour metro pass. We stayed at the Intercontinental which had the subway and walkable malls underneath. We took the train out to Olympic park and Mount Royal Park. We walked to Old Montreal and Basilica Notre Dame. Boy, they love their taxes up there. %15 sales tax for starters.

We boarded the ship about noon and were able to drop off our bags in our veranda suite. We liked that we weren't bombarded with beer and wine packages. The ship is smaller and not overwhelming. I would say there weren't more than 20 kids on the ship. It was mostly seniors, who were great! They weren't the cranky ones. These were the greatest generation type, who always had a smile and/or nice comments for our kids. Read more