This is my first review and first time cruising so I hope I will give everyone enough information. We live in Ohio and those cruising were my DH 40's, myself 40, my BFF 50's and her boyfriend. We had balcony cabins next to each other and therefore as soon as we could we put the request into the purser to remove the divider.

We left Ohio on Thanksgiving night on Skybus ($90 flight roundtrip is too good to pass up)and stayed at the Hampton-Plantation and it was beautiful, clean and they provided shuttle from the airport and to the port which we took advantage of. We left hotel at 11 am and arrived at port around 11:30 and were on the ship by 12:15 and it was awesome. We never stood in any line getting to the ship for more than 10 minutes top. It went very, very smoothly. We did lunch on the lido desk and were told that we couldn't get to our rooms before 1:30 and it was close to that when we got in. We had no expectations of the ship or the trip and so we were never disappointed.

I was pleasantly surprised that we could find a lounge chair just about anywhere - I didn't see any chair hogs. We only did two of the adult comedy shows and the first one (can't remember name) wasn't very good - he kept laughing at his own jokes but the second one was hilarious. Read more