Over the past thirty years, we have stayed on and explored over a dozen islands in the Caribbean. This year we chose to take our first cruise and selected a week long cruise leaving from San Juan with two other couples. Fearing seasickness, we chose a cabin in the middle of the ship on Deck 6. Happily, we never felt seasick. With the Summit's January remodel, we found our cabin to be beautifully redecorated and the new bed was very comfortable.

The trip began with an at sea day which we used to enjoy the extensive, beautiful, and delicious Sunday brunch in the main dining room and to explore the ship. The pool area was very very crowded and had loud music and announcements blaring on the speakers, but we found that on subsequent days when we were in port, it was quiet and finding a lounge chair was not a problem.

We usually checked out the breakfast and lunch offerings in the healthy Aqua Spa Cafe on Deck 10 and supplemented them with other food from the Waterfall Cafe on the same deck. We always found plenty of delicious items - except in the area of breakfast pastries and desserts - their breakfast pastries were usually dry and flavorless and their desserts looked beautiful but were lacking flavor. Read more