Our cruise was from September 15 - September 22, 2007.This was our first cruise and we couldn't have had a better time! We're in our mid-twenties and from Philadelphia. We flew in the Thursday before the cruise. Our flight was a disaster and we were very grateful that we didn't decide to fly in on Saturday.

We had booked the Sheraton hotel and it was a great location to all the local downtown sights of Seattle. It was a really short walk to Pike Place Market and just a short ride on the monorail to the Space Needle, EMP, etc. It was also a great location to get to the pier on Sat morning. We arrived at 12:00 and check in was really easy. We though there would be more security, but the first time that they actually glanced at our passports/ID was when we received our room keys.

We were a little out of sorts from traveling, so we decided to skip eating lunch, but we did see a lot of people out at the grill by the pool since it was an incredible day in Seattle. We explored the ship and thought it was really beautiful, excluding some of the rope hand railings that were there b/c the wood ones were probably being repaired. Those were about the only drab looking thing we saw all week. Read more