If you are not familiar with Cruise Critic it is an online forum for cruisers (like us). Click hear to see for yourself. For just about every cruise there is a thread (long list of postings) for those on that cruise. This cruise had an active thread and we had more than 60 people signed up for the Cruise Critic get together. Since that would not happen until the first sea day (7 days into the cruise) we planned a sailaway meet and greet at the Sunset Bar on the first day of the cruise. It was a well attended event.