Okay, so this was my 5 friends' and my first cruise, so everything was sparkly and new to us, and we were ready to be pleased! That being said we still had some ups and downs, but overall it was a vacation to remember! The rooms were small, as expected (being poor college students we had three girls to an inside state room), but we ended up with plenty of shelf and closet space to unpack all our bags (we had been expecting to have to leave most of our clothing in our suitcases under the bed).

I actually volunteered for the sofa bed, and found it comfortable, though it got in the way of anyone trying to enter the room, or go to the bathroom. Also a word of caution- if you fold up the foot of the bed to give a walk way after it has been turned down VERY sharp edges stick out- we all are sporting black and blue marks to prove it. The bathroom easily held all of our cosmetics, shampoos, conditioners, etc that girls have to bring with them. We ended up with rather poor service in terms of the room steward. They only turned down my bed twice, towards the end of the 7 days, after we had finally given up calling the reception desk at 12pm every night, and just opened it up ourselves. It wasn't that big a deal, but the other room had their 3rd bed turned down every night- which lets me know our steward just wasn't doing their job. we also had one night when nothing was turned down- but we do keep rather strange hours, and the steward did knock on the door a couple of times while we were there, so I forgive them that.

In terms of Freestyle dining, we loved it. We never had to wait more than 15 minutes to be seated, even if we were just out of a show- and since in our area it isn't unusual to wait an hour or more to be seated at a restaurant, we didn't really mind. We had a rather poor waiter the first night in the Four Seasons restaurant (again, poor students that we are we didn't eat at any of the cover restaurants) and the second night we ate at the Seven Seas with a much better waiter, but he was brand new and rather nervous (serving 6 pretty girls probably didn't help much ) after that we ended up with Simon...... Simon was the best waiter I have EVER had, and I have been lucky enough to eat in many fine internationally acclaimed restaurants. Read more