Good morning, gang...<br /><br />I am an early riser, as well...guess it&#39;s from forty years of nursing and, often being at work at 7AM...but I&#39;m really a morning person.  I like being up at 5AM and can move mountains at that time.  I&#39;m also one who can nap for fifteen minutes and go late into the night.  Thankfully, since, for the last twenty years, I&#39;ve been on call around the clock and have often spent 24 hours straight at the hospital...have learned to sleep when I can&#33;<br /><br />Well, zebra, in my opinion, no ship can replace the Monarch.  The Mariner is coming over - Voyager class, to do seven day cruises, nothing to do 3/4 day cruises, leaving only Carnival out here and that doesn&#39;t appeal to me.  The Monarch remains until October so I will try to sail with her as much as possible.  I normally cruise on her 3-4 times a year, anyway - but it had been a year as I did five other cruises this past year.<br /><br />Carmen