I will start by saying, as the title of my review reads, this cruise FAR exceeded my expectations. To give you some background I have only ever been on two cruises before and they were both quite a while ago, so I already suspected this ship would impress me. I traveled with my girlfriend who has been on about 10 cruises now and she shares the feeling with me that this cruise was such an amazing time. We sailed on 8/19/18 and did the 7 day Mediterranean route.

Embarkation was a breeze. We had selected our board time as 11:30-12:00 and encountered no lines. From the time of dropping out bags with the porters to boarding the ship was all about 15 minutes. No issues and we went right through, I had excepted the process to take much longer. Once on board we took the opportunity to explore the ship a bit and eat at the Windjammer before getting access to our rooms at 1:00 PM.

Rooms were ready right on time and we went down after eating lunch to change and head up to the pool. We stayed in a Central Park view balcony and I can not recommend this room type enough. I understand wanting to be able to stare at the ocean each night, but there are plenty of places on the ship to do this. The view of Central Park was lovely and allowed us the experience to still feel immersed in everything that was going on from the comfort of our room. Hearing the live music being played and people moving about was very nice. The room itself was great and plenty spacious for the two of us with the access to two large closets and luggage storage underneath the bed. Bathroom was large and had plenty of space to store toiletries and did not feel cramped. If I were to go on this ship again I would choose the same room type. Read more