I am not a big talker by any means, so this review will be short and sweet. The ship it's self was in fantastic shape inside and out. I walked through the new serenity deck to look at it, very nice but we brought our kids with us so no hanging out there. I did read a review in the past that they didn't like the dEcor of the ship. It didn't bother me, I liked it. It has a roman feel to it. My son (11 YO) didn't like the half-dressed murals on the walls. I just told him not to look at them ha-ha

There was one thing I was hoping this ship had that the fantasy class ships do have. I was hoping it had the waterworks slide area but it did not. It did have a fun slide but no little splash area for my daughter to play in (she is 2) the 2 main pools did have an area around the pool that had ankle deep water so we played in there. I don't like hot tubs so can't comment on those. There was a bunch of chair saving probably the worst I have seen it on my 3 cruises. I did have to move a single flip flop from a chair (after I waited 45 minutes) and sat my stuff on it and sat next to my wife. Funny thing is after we had enough sun and started to gather our things to go change for lunch, the chair hogs showed up and had the nerve to say "I was saving those chairs!" I said "really you must be new to cruising and don't know the CCL policy on chair saving" so I politely showed her in the fun times caper where it says no chair saving and that the policy says after 30 minutes your articles will be removed and the chair will be given to someone who wants one. Well she didn't like that much but I did say with a sheepish grin on my face "you can have them now because we are done with them". Got our things and went to our cabin and changed for lunch in the MDR.

Our cabin was an ocean suite (6166), it was very nice and the room stewards were great. Very friendly and went out of their way to make our stay wonderful. The storage space was plentiful as was the closets. I am an over packer and brought enough clothes for two weeks never mind 7 days. My wife isn't she brings the bear minimum and do the kids since she packs for them. We had 7 bags, one bag was actually a box of stuff we will use on ship but not bring home. Like sun block, wine, wipes, pull ups etc... I thought that was a great idea, worked out great. The cabin had a hair dryer but wife said it wasn't that good. The location of the plug was kind of not ideal (it was in the little dressing area before the bathroom) but manageable. Actually did find an extra plug behind the flat screen TV. I plugged our alarm clock in there. That is very handy to have. I plugged the power strip into the plug in the dressing area. a must have IMO. We use it to charge the walkie talkies and camera, and DVD player. FYI the walkie talkies are great. We give our son one and let him do whatever he wants. He mostly hung with us but a few times he would go to camp carnival and after that he would call us and say I am done with CC and now going to the unicorn cafe for sandwich. I think he was trying to eat them out ham and cheese sandwiches. Didn't work ha-ha. Read more