As for your complaints about the islands, it is not Disney's fault that the islands food is bad.
Ann-e-mator, I don't recall saying that our experience on St. Maartin was Disney's fault. I was simply giving a rundown of our experience, and that included some bad food on the island. You sound a little defensive... trust me, I'll die a Disney fan; I'll repeat again: I'm not bashing Disney. For that matter, the long wait to get off the ship at St. Thomas wasn't Disney's fault, either. Needing to pass immigration is a United States law, not Disney's decision; ditto with the tender boats-- we had to anchor instead of dock that day but that's not a decision that Disney made, just luck of the draw.
I dont understand how or why you were bored there was at least 5 different things going on at once ASIDE FROM going to the pool, the bar, playing ping pong or shuffle board, going to the movies, etc.
It's exactly because of comments like this one by Ann-e-mator that I was surprised to find that there indeed WEREN'T enough activities to keep us occupied. The pools were closed the majority of the time. Children aren't going to be too happy sitting in a bar, the movies just seemed to fall during nap time or dinner or after the kids went to sleep, we did play some ping pong, the ball courts were always full, etc. etc. YMMV, but our experience was disappointing.
That's not to say that I wasn't thrilled with certain activities. For example, it turned out that Dave Barry was on board promoting his new book
Peter and the Star Catchers. I'm a HUGE Dave Barry fan, so this was so very cool. Even cooler, I had just borrowed that book from a friend for the cruise, so I'm going to return her book signed by the authors!! How totally cool is that!
I even got to hear him give a talk, which was awesome-- he's just as funny irl. I was wiping tears the whole time.
To clarify a little more about the kids clubs, my son didn't necessarily want to sit in a circle and listen to a story for 45 minutes to an hour. Or sit at a table and make a craft for a similar length of time. I understand where the posters are coming from who say that they can't alter the schedule for one child, but interestingly, the problem with our son playing was that the OTHER children wanted to play too and it caused a problem with story time. Hello? Aren't these children on vacation, too? I saw the layout of the club, and I saw how many children were in there at any given time. There is no apparent reason why they can't have an active activity and a quiet activity going on simultaneously. I have also worked in child care. When you're dealing with 3 and 4 year olds, flexibility is key. Children at this age don't typically have the attention span to sit and do one activity for an hour. Granted, my son is more active than most, but it sounds like other children also wanted to play instead of sit.
I'm not surprised at the dissenting comments. Again, having been on these boards for years I would have been more surprised if they hadn't come. When you're a die hard Disney fan it can be difficult to accept that there might be a problem and that it just "might" be Disney's (or a CM's) fault.
If you know your child is extremely hyperactive I would not think that being confined to a ship would be a good choice. Granted, you'd never cruised before, so now you know. I can truly understand your frustration of needing him to burn off some energy, but if my cabin happened to be one that you let your kid run back and forth in front of I'd be pretty upset.
I don't feel that we were silly to take a cruise with our active child. There are kids clubs available for the children to play in, right? Those clubs include some really cool play areas which are more than adequate to keep my child happy and occupied. The problem is that he was restricted from using said play areas. If I had KNOWN that they were rigid about sitting down for certain lengths of time, I wouldn't have booked the cruise. But we had every reason to expect he would be allowed to play freely. Even on this board the comments were few and far between about this type of thing and I hoped theirs was an isolated incident (which, by the way, I didn't read about until well after our cruise was booked).
Coleland, the reason I posted in parenthesis exactly WHERE I allowed my child to run in the hallway is because I knew someone (apparently you in this case) would make a comment about being annoyed at a child running in front of THEIR door. I didn't allow him to run in the hallways in front of staterooms and said so in my original post.
The written word can make moods and inflections difficult to interpret. 
