Sailed on the Zuiderdam May 29 Western Caribbean sailing. This was our sixth cruise. We have previously sailed with Celebrity (twice), Norwegian, and Royal Caribbean (twice). Overall we don't think you can have a bad time on a cruise with everything getting done for you (cooking, cleaning etc). But here goes our review.

Embarkation in Fort Lauderdale we had to wait approximately 45 minutes before boarding. We must have hit the peak time arriving at about 1PM for the 5 o'clock departure. Would recommend either arriving earlier (we believe they let people start boarding about 11:30 am)or much later ( around 4pm). As we never had sailed on the ship before we wanted to arrive a bit early and snoop around to familiarize ourselves with the ship.

Were escorted to our category N inside cabin by a cabin steward. This was the first time we had booked two inside rooms. What we've done in the past was book one inside room for our kids (now 18 & 16 years old) and one outside room for us. As we are kind of active and don't stay in the room much we decided to get two inside rooms. The room was big enough for two but for any more people would recommend a bigger room. Some of our luggage had made it to the room even before we arrived with the rest arriving later in the afternoon. The rooms were side by side on the upper promenade deck 4 towards the front. Read more