Overall the cruise was very nice. My wife and I sailed the week after Thanksgiving, hoping that there would be less children on board as well as at the Universal Island excursion in Florida. We travel quite a bit and have taken about 6 cruises so we feel that we are experienced.

This was both of ours first time out of NYC. Upon arrival there was no signage that we say directing us to where baggage drop off was, but as before, we went with the idea that the line was where to follow. The embarkation went fairly smoothly with no undue length of time getting through the process. We were both only Bronze Latitudes members.

We went first to our cabin, where we had gotten an upgrade to a mini suite, Cabin 10834. We both liked the décor of the decks in the cabin areas and overall not over the top like we have seen in other lines. I returned back to our cabin a little before 3 prior to the muster safety briefing and our bags were already at the room. Read more