We took our first cruise this year, it was a charter on HAL, and we really enjoyed it. It was a blues cruise, with a number of well known and lesser known musicians on board, so the entertainment was fabulous. There were very few children on board, again because of the nature of the cruise.

the site is: www.bluescruise.com


The cruise is more informal than a typical HAL cruise (no formal nights). The food was wonderful, as was the service. We particularly enjoyed our daily room service breakfast in bed.

I definitely recommend the balcony type cabin, we spent lots of time hanging out on the balcony and really enjoyed it. We toured a suite, and were not sure that it would be worth the additional money. And of course there are those who take the interior windowless cabin because they don't spend any time there anyway.