We were given a map and assigned a group. We had one surprise on the crawl---one of the cruise critic people had a penthouse suite (1900 sq. ft.) with a grand piano, dining room for 8 and a hot tub on the balcony.
Another component was the poker crawl. In most of the rooms, we drew a card, the host initialed it and marked in on our paper (we each paid $5). Because each room had its own deck of cards I had two Jacks of diamonds and 2 Kings of diamonds---I was forced to re-draw, though so didn't win the poker crawl.
Other activities were Cruise Critic get-togethers with coffee, cookies.
The best was pre-arranging our dinner companions each night.
Rhoda and Gary from Florida just asked on Cruise critic if anyone with early seating wanted to dine with them.
Trish and Pat (California), Dave and I stepped forward. We had a great time and enjoyed their company more than most tables consisting of people we didn't know before the cruise. I highly recommend cruisecritic.com. One person had a web site with all sorts of information and another had put together a photo gallery ahead of time. Although cruisecritic.com is a little difficult to manage sometimes, the information, activities and friendships are well-worth it.
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