This is our 5th cruise. Have cruised with Royal Caribbean, Princess, and Carnival. We arrived at 12:30. We boarded in less than an hour. Everything went quickly and smoothly.The ship is on the smaller size from the ones I've cruised on before. I loved all the little intimate areas with tables and the window seats all over the ship. I loved the lounge chairs on the deck, but there wasn't enough of them. They had plenty of room for more. The lounge chairs in the pool area were always taken. People had put towels on them in the morning and left them. There were tables in the pool area with no chairs around them because people had moved them. They should have a pile of chairs stacked that can be used when this happens.

Room: We had an inside cabin on the 10th floor. It was small by other ship's standards. There was only one chair to lounge in, unless you wanted to use the chair at the desk. The bed was comfortable. I found the bathroom quite large with a large shower. You could actually move in this shower. There was sign of wear at the bottom of the shower with rust. We found our room not to be on the clean side. When we came in it looked like it hadn't been vacuumed. I found a hair tie and a cap from something on the floor. I don't think they vacuumed the room the whole time we were there, because the same items were still on the floor when we left, and the floor looked dirty. There was also a shortage of washcloths on this ship. We had to keep asking for washcloths and were told they were being washed. I was disappointed with the cleanliness of the room, but it must have just been our steward, because people I spoke with said their room was good.

Food: The food was good. Especially the beef wellington on lobster night. It was so tender it melted in my mouth. In the Raffles Buffet there were always long lines, especially for the omelets and the stir fry. They had a nice variety of foods in the buffet. I did, however, find that they were slow in cleaning up dirty dishes people left. Many times I had to move dirty dishes over when I wanted to sit down and eat. They also ran out of coffee quite often. The Windows and Garden Cafe food was good. We waited no longer than 15 minutes to be seated. Service was fast and efficient. The BBQ on the pool deck was very nice. The ribs were great. This was our first time with Free Style, and we liked the freedom of eating when you wanted. Read more