We (myself, my bride and about 30 close friends) disembarked off the Infinity on Sunday, September 2nd, 2007.

We are part of a group of cruisers who call ourselves the Martini Mates. We originally met on a Cruise Critic thread in 2005 for a repo cruise from Vancouver to San Francisco. We have kept that thread going for two strong years and have become good friends. On this cruise a core group of the Mates (Mike, Carol, Bob, Jude, Dorothy (The Straw), Lyle, Louvain, Ben, Kathleen (my bride) and myself were joined by a super new bunch of friends who we also met here on the boards. We had another very active cruise thread and wound up with more than 30 people at our Connections party.

This is a review of the ship part of our cruise. Shore activities will be in part two. Read more