I have never written a cruise review before but there seems to be some huge variations in what people experienced i felt it only fair to forward our experiences.

Our party consisted of my wife and I who have done about 10 cruises over the last 10 years (5 previously with RC), my step daughter and 7 year old grandaughter (no previous cruise experience).

Embarkation was reasonably quick as my grandaughter needed a wheelchair to get onboard, she has a disability which limits her mobility but she does not use a wheelchair continually. I had previously entered all details on the computer and pre printed the sea passes. It was about 1.30pm when we got on the ship and we were told our rooms were ready and our cards and wristbands (used on the ship to open staterooms and access some services) were in our rooms. On arrival at our rooms, they were connected, there were no cards for my stepdaughters room and the interconnecting door was locked, our steward Dodi, had gone for break and would not be back until 3pm so we made a trip to customer services and joined the queue, there was a queue there most of the time. We were issued with a replacement card and got into the room. There was no luggage so we all went exploring, our first impression was fantastic and I often heard a WOW! from my Step daughter and Grandaughter. Read more