Profit hungry Head Office advertised this as a 14 day cruise (it's still shown that way in March 2020) as well as a 7 day east/7 day west. As mature, well traveled cruisers, we expected HAL to attract similar guests. Not at March Break! With their "kids sale free" promotion. Our "neighbours" let their kids run circle through both their cabins, slamming both hall & balcony doors for 7 days, ignoring a written request from Guest Services to stop.

Many adults belonged on the "party ship" cruise line, for 7 days, wondering where the Karaoke Bar or the Comedy Club were. We saw a couple more than once at the Lido Buffet in bathrobes, she was wearing a shower cap!!

It was impossible to get near the mid ship pool for kids and the aft pool although adults only, permitted smoking,yuck. We were disgusted that they Casino allowed smoking most days, of course the smell lingered on non smoking days. Read more