Anyone been on a cruise with Royal Carribean?

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My sister's just booked us on a cruise on the Radiance of the Seas going from Sydney to the Whitsundays and Cairns for ten nights. My only previous experience with cruises was a European river cruise (boring!) and a three night Booze Cruise with P&O, and after dreading that it was going to be a floating RSL club that I couldn't escape from, I kind of liked it and never ran out of things to do.

I'd much prefer to head off to the UK, hire a car and drive around, but my sister is adamant that a cruise is the way to holiday, so I've given in. Is cruising a bit wanky? I didn't think the Booze Cruise was, even though I did snicker at the folk who drank themselves into a stupor and then woke up not only with a hangover but the worst seasickness ever...