The day before: We were brought to a taxi by a HAL rep that took us to the our hotel. A great hotel and after breakfast we went on the 3 hr "highlights of Vancouver" tour. A great way to spent the hours before going to the ship.

Embarkation: It took us about 15 minutes from getting of the bus to entering our stateroom. Can't get quicker then that I guess. We had a small inside stateroom. Plenty big for us. We slept there and there was enough closetspace. The airco system was a bit noisy though. After dropping our stuff off in our stateroom we went to explore the ship and have a bite to eat at the Lido.

I can't really see the problem with Code Red. It kept the ship NORO free and not being able to scoop your own food isn't really that much of a problem for us. Read more