Hi and welcome to the board. I'm the JoAnn that sailed with ChatKat (Kathy) and husband, we've sailed with them twice, as we were also on the Mariner (agree with Kathy its my favorite RSSC ship - but we did love the Navigator) the itinerary was great and we too loved Prince Edward Island, other favorite was Bar Harbor and Quebec - agree wish we had had an overnight there. The rooms were wonderful, the staff great and friendly, food was great, we only ate in Portofino once, the rest in Compass Rose for dinner anyway. We also did HAL last March, and we do like Holland - we've sailed them twice, once in a verandah room, very nice and similar to the RSSC basic suite, and once in the full suite, which we'd probably only book next time. The Concierge for the full suites on HAL is a wonderful amenity, plus the Neptune Lounge, and when in a full suite you get some other perks that are nice, private cocktail parties, priority embarkation/disembarkation, priority tender tickets, some things like that. HAL does the traditional 2 seating meals (actually they offer 4 times now, 2 early and 2 late) they have a very nice alternative restaurant, although there is a $20 per person surcharge, it was well worth it - we ate there three times. The HAL ships are nice, well kept, clean, usually the staff is very friendly, the casino is much larger, more daytime activities, so so shows at night. If you have any further questions, or want to email me seperately, just click on the little email icon and feel free to contact with more questions. Masaki did a very nice review, very detailed. I think Kathy and I did a short review, and we did also post from the ship - started the posts on Sept 23 if you want to go back and read them. Hope this helps, again welcome to LCT, I'm sure you will find lots of good information and fun, interesting people here.