This was a last minute vacation cruise, we live in the outskirts of Orlando and thought to tring to go out for first time out of nearby Port Canaveral. We chose this trip because of the price to visit 7 destinations in 11 days! Also thinking it was a "bigger" ship it would be even better!

But it all started off the wrong foot with too many people so there were long lines in the morning to board and then didn't get luggage until 5-6pm others got it at 9. I missed 1x activities held that day, that I was REALLY looking forward to and not being able to get in my room but once able to, the itinerary was not left there and I didn’t want to waste time making lines in customer service to get it, so I missed it...

The most EPIC feature is the jerking bed at night, you can’t sleep, it actually wakes you up, my husband CAN sleep through anything but not this! This cruise is only my 4th and I’m familiar to a soft rocking motion on the other ships. I look forward to it at night to sleep but on the Epic, this is quite different, in my husband’s opinion, it’s because it going too fast at night and it actually feels like a hard shaking of the bed, if someone is trying to get you up until mission accomplished! This is very important to us as resting is the main reason to getaway so simple as it seems, to us, having a good night's sleep would be a priority on our vacation. The last couple of "sea" days, the jerking was hardly felt, we think, it’s because they were able to take their time back home. We only wonder how much of this long term aggravation can cause a BIG ship handle without eventually harming any of its structures?! We were on middle side location of the ship #12194 and my son at the AFT deck 11? Who missed a lot of activities as to sleeping it off everytime the ship started to rock being he has sea sickness issues but I chose this “bigger” ship being he didn’t do too bad in the other smaller ships and I was told “bigger” ships would be better for sea sickness. So expecting it to be an even a better experience for him, it was NOT the case, I also chose for him the AFT section for the same reason but in comparison he did much better in the smaller ship. But again the question is was it because this ship was just going faster than it should be because it was an 11 day cruise compared to the smaller ship or of a 7 day cruise? I don’t want to blame the weather because we had great weather except for waves at Costa Maya! Read more