My son and I disembarked from the Epic only yesterday and I'm reviewing it while it's all fresh in my mind. We booked through a travel agent over a year ago so that we could pay over a long period of time and save up some spending money too, and this worked well for us.

The Epic, as has been noted before, is immense. It was fully occupied last week and I was surprised to learn that there were only 600 Americans on board. There seemed to be a lot from the UK but I'm fairly sure that "other European" made up the biggest proportion of guests. This, in my view, changed the dynamics on the ship as Spanish seemed to be the first language and I'm sure we would have got chatting to a lot more people in other circumstances.

We had an inside cabin which was very comfortable and suited us very well - the bathroom / curtain arrangement worked for us and we didn't have a problem with the basin! Storage space was plentiful and, with the twin bed arrangement, we had lots of room to move. One comment I would make, and it's not a complaint but an observation, is that although there are many light fittings, they were mostly low wattage and inadequate for things like putting on makeup. I probably went out looking like a drag queen occasionally... The shower was great, there was always hot water, and we didn't require the use of air fresheners (!) because the air conditioning was very efficient. My son used the kids crew tweens section and enjoyed most of the activities although he said they got shouted at a lot for being too noisy. That didn't stop him going back although he avoided the PJ party. Being a tween he was able to sign himself in and out (for a minimum of 2 hours) which was great from both our points of view. Read more