This is a reply to an old comment...but I agree that this ship is much more attractive than the new floating apartment buildings. I don't quite understand why anyone would want to "get away from it all" with a mob of 5-7000 others. Yes, there is more to do on the new ships, but I wouldn't take a cruise so that I can play on bumper cars or go-carts. It's just a come-on...probably for families with kids. But, the kids I know would rather play on some state-of-the-art video game, which could easily be put on an older vessel. And, as for the profit motive, I have not yet been convinced that the larger vessels are all that more profitable, except that the company saves on some of the higher priced crew, like the captain. Overall, the passenger to total crew ratio is worse on the Wonder of the Seas: 3 to 1 vs 2.5 to 1 on the Iris. They're not much faster, if at all: Wonder is, in fact, less than two knots/hour slower than the Cunard Princess/Rhapsody/Golden Iris. All in all, the bigger ships seem to make more money mostly because of more passengers...but not necessarily having a higher profit ratio per passenger. And, oh yeah...what some people are finding out is that some large ships are like Disneland...you find yourself waiting in lines all over the place. The point is that bigger is not necessarily better!