I love watching everything from my balcony. On our Alaskan cruise, we got up about 4:30 one morning as we were arriving in Juneau, went down to the buffet and got coffee and tea and sat on the balcony watching the sun come up and we got closer to land. The scenery was gorgeous and it is one of my favorite cruise memories. The other one was my first balcony cruise, the Glory with my mom who is now gone. We were on our balcony in St Thomas as we were leaving port and it was dark. There were all kinds of people taking flash pictures of our ship from inside a building, I assume was a restaurant. We felt like royalty, even though they could not see us!