Well, Shari, I&#39;ve done 59 RCI cruises...leave for number 60 on Sunday and I truly have never had a bad cruise yet.  I just had an email today from the captain I&#39;ll be sailing with and, yesterday, the hotel director wrote to me.  The crew have become family to me and I always feel at home on the ships I choose.<br /><br />The Monarch, where I&#39;ve sailed seventeen times, cannot match some of the glitzier ships out there in terms of big cabins, etc, but their crew are absolutely wonderful...and it is rated number one in the Royal Caribbean fleet overall.