EPIC REVIEW

I am just back from our 7 day adventure on EPIC and I must report that my wife and our traveling companions had a truly great experience on EPIC. I know that many reviews of EPIC are less than stellar but our little foursome found EPIC to be loads of fun and far exceeded our expectations. Between the two couples, we have a total of 10 cruises so we consider ourselves fairly knowledgeable. This review does not include any reports for our port calls of St Maarten, St Thomas or Nassau.

As many experienced cruisers will attest, the Port of Miami on cruise day is a mad house--our embarkation day included 6 ships in port. To start with, we arrived a day early flying into West Palm Beach (saving nearly $300 per person in airplane costs), renting a car (one way), overnight hotel near the airport and a free shuttle operation from the great folks at Alamo. Shuttle bus dropped us right off at our ship. It was only 45 minutes from the time we got in line until we were in our cabin and unpacking. Read more