Our family lives everywhere, Wisconsin, North Dakota, Washington State, Florida, Alabama, and we live in Georgia. Everyone is going to have to travel so we might as well all go on a cruise. My family loved the idea. They have been asking for the past two years when we were going on a cruise. His family is excited too. We are only going on a three night cruise so we won't be with them all week. I think it will be fun to spend more time with them than the standard couple hours. Although, I have requested for noone else to be on our floor and our parents will be the only ones that know our room number. At first I thought it would be cheaper but it does not look like when everything is said and done that we will save much money.