We booked this cruise several months before the actual departure date of January 23rd. The birth was right next to the Sydney Opera House and what a view we had from the port side of the ship from our "junior suite". We were in 8072.

We had a couple of problems right from the start. This ship was refurbished earlier that year and I would have thought that they would have replaced the mattresses, but ours sagged badly in the middle , was lumpy and it took complaints the second day to three different people including the assistant hotel director to get action. They "rebuilt" the bed with foam and it was satisfactory the remainder of the cruise.

My other complaint is actually my fault for not knowing Australian school holidays. We had over 550 kids on board and they ran amonk. The hot tubs were turned off their bubbliers and in the pool kids were constanly jumping in and splashing. I like kids but not in such vast quanities. At this point I should acknowledge that I am an American and so wasn't aware of this cruises popularity with the Aussies that made up the vast number of passengers. They luv to have fun and there were many parties that were both organized and not. Read more