Embarkation was a breeze. We got to the ship around 1130 from the Sunday farewell brunch after the wedding ad were in our room w/i ten minutes. Our cabin was open and was not quite ready but we locked up our valuables in the safe and took off.

To backtrack a little my first impression of the ship came from seeing the the atrium and I must say it was weird. The legend theme was ancient Greece with a huge mural of the Collosus of Rhodes which was sort of hidden really. There was a repeating pattern of about 5 ft. tall Grecian urns surrounded framed by dark wood which was in rows and columns all the way up to the top floors. The urns formed the railings and the bar stools as well and there were two overhangs into the atrium thus giving the feeling of it being closed off and dark, not like a true atrium which is open and bright. There had to be at least 150 urns in the atrium. In other parts of the ship there was wallpaper which looked like it was themed to ancient Egypt and in other places it was Medieval and even had one scene of what looked like Romeo courting Juliet on her balcony. Well I guess Joe Farcus had it all covered. . For me sorry to say but it was sort of a mess.

The public areas were clean and well kept. Our balcony had a few rust stops and some peeling paing but its an older ship and this was a non issue for us. Read more