I will begin by stating that my wife and I haven't cruised in over 10 years. Our last two cruises were on Holland (not a good experience) and Royal Carribbean. Its important to point out the the Royal Carribbean cruise we went on (Serenede of the Seas) was a new boat.

We travelled out of Seward and into Vancouver. I will focus on the ship, rather than the itinary, with the exception of stating that the only port we did not find a bunch of things to do/visit, was in the Icy Straight port. This seemed to be a "cruise ship" village, created to resemble a fishing town, but really wasn't much to do there. Ketchican, Juneau, and Skagway were all wonderful, with plenty to do and see. Wished we would have seen Sitka (which we had heard was also beautiful), rather than going to Icy Straight. That said, we had wonderful weather (70-80's and clear/sunny, each day).

Focusing back on the ship, given we had in the past sailed on a newer vessel, we were a bit dissapointing that after the ship was "Solcitized" (basically updated/remodeled as its about 12 years old), that it still felt like it needed updating in certain areas. The room was the main thing we were most dissapointed with. The bathroom had no upgrades and the shower had some caulking/molding issues. The sink did not go down and the toiled made a flushing noise to the point we had to keep the door closed at all times. We were dissapointed in the size of the room as well. We know cruise ship rooms were small but this was a bit ridiculous considering we paid a significant amount to have a balcony and I thought that was more spacious than the room. We had a pull out chair (vs a sofabed) and when opened there wasnt even room to stand up, let alone actually use the balcony, so we were confined to the bed when we had a balcony (and someone was sleeping in the chair). We asked about the bed in the ceiling but the crew member advised against it. Said too many people get injured when sitting in up in bed (as its right above the main bed). Read more