Sailed in November of 2005 with my husband and 2 year old son. My Mom and Dad and my brother and his fiance. First of all the ship was beautiful. It was not worn down at all. Even our cabin was quite clean (and cleaner than most hotel rooms I've stayed at. My husband, son and I stayed in a Junior Suite, which was quite large. The closet was so big you could have fit another bed in it. My Mom and Brother stayed in a Superior Oceanview Room (with balcony). Was large enough for 2, but with our 2 year old we needed a little extra room for him to run around. It was great having a balcony. Ordered coffee in our room every morning and drank it on the balcony. So I have to say that the accommodations from everyone's perspective were just terrific.
We were assigned a lovely oceanview table in the main dining room. The wait staff couldn't do more for us. As a matter of fact everyone on the ship was most accommodating. I've seen mixed reviews about the food. All I can say is that I never had a bad meal. Every meal was at least good and sometimes incredible. It is usually the luck of the draw on what you order. The great thing is that if you don't like what you ordered. Just order something else. They don't care. You could order 5 entrees if you want. We also ate at Johnny Rockets 1 day which was quite good and Chops Grille which was excellent. Never made it up to experience the midnight buffet. We actually got to look at it one night, but we thought it was mainly for show. Every dessert I had on the ship was truly outstanding (So whatever you do, don't miss dessert!)
The only negatives we experienced were embarkation/debarkation. Both took forever. We almost missed our flight going home. At embarkation we were there very early with hundreds of other folks. My advice is to embark later. We saw people coming on board at 5:00 p.m. (no hassles).