A family holiday for 9 ages ranging from 13 to 74. This was our second cruise the first being on Liberty of the seas 2 years ago. Expectations were high as we had an amazing trip then and Liberty is so beautiful. I was slightly concerned about the negative comments before hand and hoped that the negatives were due to the rather large teething problems at the beginning. I understand that holidaying in a building site is never good.

We had about a 20 minute wait at the airport for our travel documents to be checked by Royal Caribbean staff. This would have been so much quicker if people had read the website and had completed their information online before travelling. Having said that if you had booked through Thomson as we did and thought they had done the paperwork, you could have been left high and dry at the airport. Luckily we had uploaded our own photos and had printed out all our documents because we knew we had done this before.The worst part of this wait was that there was little to no air conditioning in the holding area. After this the coach swiftly took us to the port . It took about 10 mins from the coach parking to standing on the ship.

Harmony is truly an incredible feat of engineering. We entered on to the boardwalk which was busy but did not feel crowded. It was spotlessly clean, and we found that all areas of the ship to be so as well. Alcohol gel dispensers were in abundance shame not everyone uses them ! There were also hand basins at the Windjammer which staff directed you to. Read more