My husband and I decided to go on this cruise for our honeymoon. I have been on several cruises, but this was his first. It was a bit of a disappointment. Even though we made sure the cruise line knew we were celebrating a special occasion, our waiters were the only ones who ever acknowledged it. We did actually receive a note about a little welcoming event for people celebrating special events, but it wasn't on our door until the morning of, and we didn't actually see the tiny envelope until after the event had passed.

Embarkation wasn't as bad as I had expected after reading other reviews. We stayed a few days in Manhattan before and didn't want to pay the extreme cab fares we read about so we took the advice on the cruise terminal website: the PATH train to the light rail. When we arrived at the station we called a cab. The cab that arrived just pulled up. The lady didn't speak to us except to say "Did you call a cab?". We loaded our own bags on top of the rusty spare tire in the back of the extremely old car. She dropped us off a few minutes later and just said the price. (Let this be a warning to you to make other arrangements. We would NOT do this again, but didn't really read many reviews that included how people actually arrived at the terminal.) Embarkation was okay, definitely get there early. The people behind the counter seemed to be fairly disorganized. Almost everything was not where it should be and they couldn't find many people's key cards.

Once we got on the ship we went to our cabin, which was supposedly ready. Although it appeared to be clean, the bathroom was filthy, hairs everywhere! We were also missing most of our concierge class upgrades. Our champagne bucked had an old champagne label stuck on it. We just assumed all this was normal since we learned our cabin steward was new. They basically worked out all these issues and our cabin stewards ended up being excellent. Read more