We truly loved this experience. From the time we went aboard until we left, we loved it.
The ship is beautiful. This ship has a real classy to it feel. "Elegant" my wife said. Our stateroom was great. Storage was great and the design of the furniture and overall footprint was excellent. A great use of space. Balcony was fine and our location on the starboard side forward was great.
The first couple of hours on board we spent exploring. Finding all the things we looked at on line that we wanted to see. Coffee shop, the small food court areas, Club HAL, the library and "Explorations Cafe." (more on this later)
Although the main pool with its retractable roof could get a little busy, the fountain is a nice place to sit. The hot tubs are hot, not the typical warm water found in most, and the towels where large and clean. My wife liked the adult Sea View pool area aft. My son and I spent most of the days at sea on the sports deck, main pool, the promenade deck or taking a culture class in the Queens Lounge. He checked out Club HAL but he never was and still isn't into these type of activities. We took a cooking class ($) together and make a wonderful Cuban meal. Very hands on and good fun. The towel folding class was just okay for both of us.
On Grand Turk, we went ashore and did the horse back ride and swim. (These are retired Polo horses and it's a trail/walking ride, not to dangerous.) My son had never been on a horse (pony only) and this was a way for him to ride a "real" horse. It was an event for him and loved it when the horses ran through the ocean with riders in bouncing all about. The only nutty thing was the bus ride to and from the location. Crazy ^$% driver talked and talked, mostly about dumb stuff like "this house over here belong to some ex-government official that is dead", and that tree there is for hanging out laundry kind of stuff. And then on the way back....yes the same stories all over again. My head was about to explode, I wanted to throw his mic out the window.
Room service was timely. Over all the service of the staff and food quality was great.
Now this stuck out to me and my wife. The buffet. I am not a buffet guy. "Never know where someone elses hands have been" kind of thing. Here, and this is big, you get a plate and the servers on the other side of the glass put the food on to your plate. NO sloppy spoons to touch, no double dipped serving spoons. None of that. You point at what you want and they make it (omelets) or get the food for you and place it right there on your plate. This section of the ship called the Lido Restaurant, is very well thought out. After getting your buffet breakfast or lunch, you sit and servers come to you with drinks. Iced tea, soda, beers or wine are all available.
Note, on this ship, Purel type sanitation stations where everywhere.
The shows and nightly entertainment on board was pretty good too. There was a magician/ comedy fella that was over the top funny. We all had a good time at his show.
The public restrooms are easy to find and always seemed clean. Public areas are nice and lots of art work to view as your walking about.
One of the best parts of the cruise was time time my son and I had together up in Exploration Cafe. There, they have board games, Internet access and books. We played chess every evening while mom got dressed for dinner. Game after game. This is where my drink bill was doing the damage. Its a great view and very few people seemed to know about this area of the ship.
We really have no negative thoughts about this cruise and are taking the Eurodam out again in a few months. We truly had a great time. We rated this vacation a "Do Over" or a 9 out of 10.
