Background: This was my husband and I's second cruise on Majesty of the Seas (our third overall). Our first time was for our honeymoon almost eight years ago. We choose it because it was a fairly short cruise (we are the parents of a 3 1/2 year old and eight month old baby and it was the longest we felt comfortable leaving them for). We also choose it because we liked that it stopped at a different port each day.

Embarkation: We flew in the same day as embarkation and we were already exhausted from the early flight. Needless to say, this was an extremely slow and frustrating process. We arrived at the Port of Miami at 12:30 p.m.--which seemed the same time that everyone else arrived. Initially, it seemed to go fairly quickly, but at the final stage of the process--final check in and receiving our sea passes--we had to stand in line for nearly an hour and fifteen minutes. Once we received our sea passes--we discovered that we did not receive the two person table that I had requested when we made the reservations. We immediately went into the dining room to have our table changed--only to discover a large number of people sitting in chairs waiting to also change their table assignments. Needless to say, we were already very tired and frustrated and decided to just sit at the table assigned to us (which turned out to be a six person table and the couples we sat with were very nice). The whole process made us initially a little upset that we decided to cruise again with Royal Caribbean.

Stateroom: We had a Superior Oceanview Cabin on the 9th deck. It was much more spacious than the previous rooms that we had on our past cruises. This room was 157 square feet as opposed to 122 square feet to the interior rooms we previously had. We enjoyed the larger window--and although a lifeboat was directly below our window, we had a nice view of the ocean and the ports of calls. It had a refrigerator, small sofa with table and a safe in the closet. The newly refurbished rooms with the flat screen television and new linens were an added bonus. The bed was comfortable and the bathroom (quite small) offered a nice hot shower with good water pressure. While the ship seemed like it was at capacity, our room was always quiet. Our stateroom attendant, Austin did a terrific job taking care of our room. Read more