My BF and I went on the last cruise of the year for Bermuda on the Dawn out of New York. The embarkation was much easier than I thought it would be. No complaints there. Once we were on our ship we waited a LONG time for our luggage and we had checked in during the first hour you could. When it did arrive it was outside the door. Forgive me, I assumed it would be in the room (perhaps thats not standard on cruises).

When we first boarded and were waiting for our rooms to be ready, we went to the pool deck bar to of course start things off with a cocktail. 20 minutes later a not so busy bar tender was told by his manager that we were waiting for service. Hadn't even noticed us, and seemed kind of bothered by my needing, well, anything. Not a great way to make a first impression as far as service. The BF had a beer that he described as tasting horrible. Ok, could have been the end of the keg. All was forgiven when we raced to our rooms once the announcement was made that they were ready.

The rooms are pretty well appointed. Our balcony was great. Not a whole lot of places to put luggage, though I guess that's on most ships. We got ready for dinner and went for sushi at Bamboo (heard the later in the cruise you get it, the worse the sushi gets). Plus, Bamboo was having a 2 for 1 deal... Oops except on sushi. Read more