The fastest part was embarking, as it took us only 10 minutes total from the curb to boarding the ship. This was only because of our room, being a Suite. Although we were allowed on the ship early, there were not many activities available, other than the miniature golf course. The basketball court, which would only need a ball or two was not available at all the first day, and difficult to find anyone to give us a ball on most other days.

The Windjammer food was fine, nothing special, a good variety, but when I questioned a attendant about the peach in what was supposed to be a plain iced tea, she got huffy. I explained that I have some food allergies and that she should probably label those iced tea as peach flavored. She just ignored me and threw my tea away. Not a problem, but wasn't expecting that reaction.

We play a lot of trivia on all our cruises, but I must say those who run the trivia on the cruise directors staff do not win any medals for promptness, preparedness, or even being nice. The prizes, which were never great, but at times you could win an umbrella, hat, passport holder, seapass holder, or other small but decent prizes have been replaced by a royal caribbean key chain or pen, and once or twice a RCCL medal. There were a lot of people on their smart phones, or ipads during the game and the crew did nothing to stop the cheating, which really did not enhance the game. When it was pointed out that the RCCL answer was in direct contradiction to known facts, they just said this is the answer, and that is that. I asked that they just correct it for next time - since everyone can google, it would have been very easy to do. But they do what they want and do not even attempt to listen. We went from normal trivia, to some harder trivia, then to impossible trivia. No one had fun at a trivia where no one could possibly know the answer - such as what was the name of Aaron Burr's dog when he was Vice President? Read more