[soliloquy id=”18398″] our second day aboard the quantum began with a long lie-in, a lazy breakfast at windjammer, followed with a full day’s itinerary of complete relaxation – well, what else is a cruise holiday about?! despite our north sea location we were amazed by the clear blue skies and warm rays beating down, even if it was a little breezy on our balcony! wonderfully sated after lashings of seattle’s best coffee and freshly scrambled eggs, we  headed straight for the adult-only

[soliloquy id=”18333″] last weekend i was whisked away on a wonderful adventure by royal caribbean, for the pre-inaugural voyage of their new smartship quantum of the seas. quantum is a new generation of cruise ship, offering unparalleled technologies and cutting edge transformative venues aboard an 18 deck, 167,800 ton vessel, with 2,090 staterooms and 4,180 guest capacity. i’d never been on a cruise trip before, so was overawed by the sheer scale of the cruise liner when we first arrived in southampton but that was nothing