GENERAL: We just got back yesterday (2/26/05) from our cruise on the Ecstasy out of Galveston to Cozumel and Playa del Carmen. This is a first time cruise for my husband and I (we went with our Supper Club group - there were 8 of us). The cruise ship is very glitzy looking and I liked the neon lights in the Grand Atrium. The rooms were so-so looking - I thought they would look a little more luxurious but that's okay. The single beds were pushed together to make a king size bed and it was very comfortable. The news stations on the TV were out of New York - which is crazy, they should have had national news stations so you could find out what major things were going on in your part of the world and they should have had the Weather station so you could know what the weather was going to be like when you got back into Galveston (turns out it was much cooler than when we had left). We were on the Upper Deck so we always took the stairs to get a little exercise.

SAILING: We had very smooth sailing (don't believe people when they say you can't feel the boat moving - you can). I do tend to get motion sickness so I took a 'Bonine' every morning and I was fine, though at the beginning I felt light-headed, like I'd been drinking (who needs alcohol when you feel that way). On our last day, there were 6 foot swells so for awhile we looked drunk when walking around because we staggered back and forth (we were told that our trip had been one of the smoothest ones). We didn't have to adjust to the land at all when we got back.

There was plenty to do on the boat, and we were basically doing things all the time so we never got to lay out by the pool to soak up some sun until the last day and it ended up being cloudy, windy, and cooler so we missed out on that. Read more