This was my 14th cruise and my 9th on the Celebrity/Fantasy cruise line. My husband and daughter and I were in desperate need of a "decompression" week. We were greatly looking forward to this cruise for about 8 months. Have you ever been looking forward to something so much that you just knew that it could never live up to your expectations? Well this one did.... it was everything and more.

Where to start... We flew in on the day of departure to Miami and the bus ride was about 35 minutes to the pier. It was kind of annoying because the bus driver would "hint" about receiving a tip about every 1o minutes or so...

Once at the pier, the embarkation was as good as people had described... quick and easy. We immediately went up to the buffet which was packed. This was a New England/ New York school vacation week and the ship was full (except unfortunately for the people from Europe who couldn't fly in.) The food was very good every time we ate there for lunch. We shared a table with a couple from Florida who we preceded to see quite regularly throughout the cruise. Read more