Oh my -- and that is exactly what I want to avoid. I will admit to being intriqued by all the wonderful things I've read about their food! I guess it would just have to be a really desireable itinerary and price to overcome the one-in-a-huge-crowd thing.

I'm a very friendly and social person (you probably got that from all my posts) ;) , and I love to meet new people and get to know them. While I certainly enjoy traveling with my dh or my mother or other family members, to me it's always much more fun if we can get involved in social situations rather than just hanging out with each other. I remember when I first started looking into cruising, I thought that we should go for the largest ships, theorizing that the more people, the more opportunity to connect with someone. But I've found the opposite is true, as all of you surely already know. So I have to keep that in mind as I figure out what cruises I want to go on in the future.