We booked this cruise based on the islands of the Southern Caribbean, and also the time of year was important for our schedule. Two of the five islands (St. Thomas, St. Martin, Martinique, St. Croix, and St. Kitts ) we never visited before, so it was very exciting to explore new islands. We had our three year old son with us, so that made it a little difficult to have many options as far as shore excursions go, but we still found something at every island and we all enjoyed our selves. Our favorite excusrsion was in Martinique, the Biological Zoo visit and old Disterry Rum tour. Our son enjoyed going to AquaNauts in Adventure Ocean on deck 12 for play time. On some days, they did family events and that was really enjoyable. For adult time, we took advantage of the Tropic Theater for onboard entertainment. Our most favorite show was ABBA (presented by Abracadebra band).