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NOVEMBER

• It's not scorching hot like during the summer
  
• Hurricane season is basically over
  
• Rock bottom pricing
  
• Fellow Passengers (off season tends to attract a more low key and toned down group of fellow passengers).
  
• It's our Anniversary month! :)
  

We bought some Motorola Walkie Talkies with 8 mile range. They didn't work very well.

In order for us to hear each other, we couldn't be more than a few hundred feet from each other on the same deck, OR we could be on different decks but directly above or below each other on the same exact section of the ship (in fact, that's when the walkie talkies seemed to work best).

In my opinion, they're not worth the money.

I hope they fixed the Holiday's listing issues. It was like this our whole cruise.

I think that since the Holiday is an older ship, it didn't have the stabilizers that modern ships have, and that noticeable list is just how this ship rides the currents and winds (kinda like how an airplane flies at an angle "crabbing into the wind").

We sailed on the Holiday for a quick 4 night Cozumel getaway, and on the way south, the ship listed to the right all the way, and on the way north, the ship listed to the left!

The Holiday is now part of Ibero Cruceros. It looks AMAZING. It's like a brand new ship!

You can get more information at their website http://www.iberocruceros.com

Keep in mind that this ship now caters to a Spanish clientele, so all activities, announcements, etc are all in spanish!

Usually, the price also includes roundtrip airfare from Madrid, or other cities in Spain

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I took well over a thousand photos, therefore this review will have a lot of photos.

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Why can't ALL reviews be like this one!!??

Do the TV's in the cabins have the ports so you can plug in the PS 3 game console. My sons want to bring their PS3 which also play movies and games on them, etc. Thanks!:D

From those of you who have actually brought a PS3 or Xbox, is it worth hauling it with you?

I might be wrong, but with so much to do on the ship (especially for teens with Club 02 activities), wouldn't bringing your own entertainment be the equivalent of bringing your own food?

To the OP, What ship will be sailing on? Some ships with the older TV's might not be have the proper connections. If you do bring the PS3, let us know if your kids used it and how much.

We just returned from our 16th cruise, and our first on Elation. We booked cabin E255 in the aft section of the ship. Just one comment: If you don't like sleeping, book a cabin back there! Of all the cruises we have been on, this was the noisiest cabin ever. All the noise from the azipods pounds into the room while under way. It was like sleeping in a bass drum! We tried to switch rooms, but the ship was booked full. We made the best of it, but what an experience! Book midship or forward cabins on Elation!

I wonder if this problem is specific to the Elation. I sailed on the Imaginatio on cabin E242 (rear facing aft cabin) and we didn't experience it the same way. Yes, there's a rumble (in our opinion very muted) when the ship is moving but not anything that would keep us awake. It's comparable to the noise from an air conditioning unit, which I'm accustomed to.

On the bright side, we were thankful for being in this cabin. The seas were very choppy, with the ship pitching pretty wildly a few days. Thankfully, if we were tucked away in our cabin all the way in the back of the ship, we wouldn't feel the motion. The moment that we would start walking forward, we would start feeling the motion more and more. We had some friends who were in a porthole cabin all the way forward on the Upper Deck and their story was completely different. They couldn't sleep because the pitching motion (up, down) was so strong sometimes (and the sudden shudders with the down motion) that it would keep them awake, and also nauseous the whole time...