My wife and I chose this cruise because of the freestyle theme.This was the first cruise my wife and I have been on and we both thought it was very nice. We thought the food was very good. We eat in the dining rooms four times and all four times the food was great and the service was awesome. The rest of the times we ate at Garden Cafe and were very happy with the variety of foods we could chose from. As far as the activities on the ship, we never ran out of things to do. The activities we went to were very good. I would have to give our cruise director Sylus a A+ rating for lining every up. I was also impressed how Sylus went out of his way to mingle with the people and kids too, to make them feel welcomed. As far as the shore excursions we only went on one and thought it was very nice. Our cabin was a balcony stateroom and we thought it was very roomy. The cabin person was very polite and did a wonderful job of tiding up our cabin. I know this was our first cruise, but my wife and I were very happy with it.