THE BAD
Embarkation was a mess. We all seemed to be herded to the buffet, which was so crowded we could not find a table inside or out. It was the most uncomfortable experience I remember ever having on a cruise (except for the time it took us five hours to disembark from a Princess cruise six years ago).
The cleanliness of the stateroom was below par. The overhead vent in the shower was completely clogged with dust, and I had to use the crimp end of a toothpaste tube to scrape it out. Same thing to a lesser degree with the vent above the toilet. The mirrors and glass art coverings in the room had smudges, streaks, etc., and that never improved even after I complained. The steward didn't understand my complaint. I said their was dust clogging the vents in the bathroom and the mirrors and glass frames of paintings in the room were dirty. He thought I wanted him to take everything we had off the glass shelves in the bathroom and clean the glass. He did all that, and the stateroom itself still looked bad; besides, we had to reorganize all our things he had moved around on the vanity shelves.
I really liked our cabin; I just didn't like the way our steward kept it. He wasn't a thorough cleaner. There was nothing wrong with the room-- oh, wait. There was a pull-down bed on one wall, so you had to duck around that on one side of the bed, and we had to move the bed so we had to step over the other corner of the bed since it butted up against the desk.