My husband, our 9 month old son at the time and I cruised on the m.s. europa in June of 1985. We left from Bremerhafen, to the Faroe Islands, Reykavik, up around Iceland and into the fjords of Norway on a two week cruise. The average age on board was about 70 and almost all were europeans, germans dominating. They expected the very best of the cruise line and got it. All of the daily menus and daily events programs were in german, some poor soul must've stayed up every night translating everything into english for me because each morning I had several pages of menus and activities delivered to our cabin. The possible offerings for just one meal were almost endless and every word painstakingly and sometimes hilariously translated. (we still have some of the menus in our albums.) During a tour of the kitchens and wine cellars we saw a refrigerated room full of caviar and were told that if the temperature deviated by just a small amount, the caviar would no longer be served. (that impressed us, let me eat what they don't want!) At that time the guest list with names of country of origin were still published. We were afraid our son would be frowned on since no other babies or even children were on board, however he has always loved traveling and was so well-behaved that at dinner persons from other tables would present him with little gifts that they had purchased for him on shore excursions. He continues to love traveling and booked both our alaskan cruise on the mariner last year and our baltic cruise coming up in august. We thoroghly enjoyed our cruise on the europa, the standards and quality were of the highest degree. My husband is German and the cruiseline didn't realize that they had only one american on board (me). That is why all the programs and menus were translated for me personally.