Okay...can I give less than 1 star? I would. We went with a group of 13 to celebrate the 50th birthday of a friend. We had a balcony room, which was just fine. The best thing about the ship? Well, 2 things....internet worked in the room which was nice, and the beds were super comfortable. The size of the room was fine...small but what do you expect on a ship? Plenty of storage. The comedy club and the latin bar were also fun.

Now on to the ship itself. 12 of the 13 of us got food poisoning on the ship at one time or another. We narrowed it down to the common foods, which were the shrimp served in the Golden Pearl Dining room and the Sushi from the California Roll sushi bar. First, a note about the food...it was horrible overall. The food in the dining room at dinner was often overcooked, and their idea of rare was actually medium well. The waiter would tell me that's the rarest piece he could find, and then a very rare piece would be served to someone else, so hmmm, me thinks he didn't even bother to look. When 4 of our party went to the doctor for the food poisoning they were told it was the flu and were confined to their rooms. Really? Flu? 24 hours later they felt much better and all but 1 of them had had a flu shot weeks before we went, so wasn't the flu. Sad when you have to get off the ship and go into Mexico to get fish you can actually eat. The service in the Golden Pearl was horrible and since we were traveling with the cruise agent who booked the group, she got up and threw a fit...didn't help...so her husband had to give a very large bribe to the head waiter to get our two tables properly taken care of during the cruise. Ridiculous.

The tender process on day 1 in Cabo was ridiculous. Took us more than 2 hours to get off the ship once we had a tender number, and two others in our group who left several hours after we did also said it took 2 hours to get off. The second tender day was open tender and that worked more effectively in terms of timeliness. Read more