What a great ship, this was our second time on Harmony and she continues to impress. This time around we opted for the 9 night itinerary and I don't know how we can ever go back to a 7 night cruise. One of the reasons Harmony continues to impress is the staff, the ship is great don't get me wrong but the staff from Captain Johnny, Mark the cruise director to our cabin steward and everyone else was great.

We stayed in a Grand Suite which was perfect for three people, plenty of storage space and lots of room in the cabin. One of the perks of being in a suite was that we get access to Coastal Kitchen which was fantastic, Aysun the manager and the entire staff was very helpful and extremely friendly, the food was great, quite a few steps up from the dining room. We also dined at Park 150, Chop's and Jaime's which were fantastic as well, absolutely no complaints about the dining. The only entertainment we watched was the aqua-theater, comedian and the magician and all were great. We didn't attend Grease because we have seen it before and I find it to be to long of a show. The night life on the ship was okay but the nightclub almost never opened before 11pm and by the time it did open it wasn't very lively.

On this 9 night itinerary we went to Nassau, St. Thomas, St Maarten, San Juan and Labadee. Nassau is nothing special, you can walk the downtown in an hour, and Atlantis is extremely overpriced, $200 to enjoy the water park is a bit steep. In St. Thomas we walked the downtown on our own which is always nice but you can see that not all of the stores have reopened after the hurricane. In St. Maarten we decided to book an excursion to Maho beach so we can watch the planes fly overhead, this is my only complaint about the entire cruise, the tour was advertised as being 4 1/2 from the time you leave the pier until they drop you back off at the ship. The entire excursion took us 6 1/2 hour leaving us no time to see anything else in St Maarten which happens to be my favorite of all the ports. The two extra hours were due to lots of traffic and our tour operator not being in any rush to get back. Maho Beach, the beach itself was overly crowded making it almost impossible to navigate around so we decided to grab a table at the restaurant to enjoy some drinks and watch the planes until we were rudely told that if we were not eating we could not sit at a table, we took a look at the menu and everything was extremely overpriced so we went to the outdoor bar instead, again at the bar everything was overpriced 2 mojitos and a pina colada was $30.00 and it didn't contain much alcohol, the entire experience felt like I was in a tourist trap. In San Juan we booked a city tour with a stop at the mall, the city tour was great, we learned a lot about Puerto Rico's vast history the stop at the mall was nothing special but I definitely recommend a city tour. We also walked around Old San Juan which is beautiful. In Labadee we kept it simple and spent the day at the beach, Barefoot Beach which is only for suite guest was beautiful, not crowded with plenty of chairs, access to the beach, its own bar, buffet and restrooms so we had no need to leave. Read more