My friends and I take family vacations yearly. Sometimes we travel together because our children are close in age and have a good time together. We decided this year we would book a cruise. We were so excited about the trip we had a count down on our facebook accounts.

Day 1 We arrive on the ship to and decided to take a look around. Our first impression was "we thought this ship was updated!" The bathrooms seemed clean but wreaked of mold. We let that go thinking we may be being too picky because we were tired from the trip to get there.

We went to dinner. We heard from our friends that cruise ships had great food and tons of it. Again, nothing impressive but decided that we would reserve judgement until after we gave the vacation a real chance. I can honestly tell you the food did not improve at all. In fact, I've had tastier food at a low budget buffet than we had on the ship. One meal we ordered "spinach stuffed" mushrooms. When they arrived at the table they were stuffed with broccoli. The food really was awful. Read more