Although not told prior to this cruise, it was the last sailing of the Norwegian Sky. After reaching Vancouver it was to be torn apart while travelling back to dry dock in San Francisco. There it would be refurbished and put back into action as the "Pride of Aloha" and sail with a completely American Crew around the Hawaiian Islands.
At each port including the San Juan, competent international crew were dropped off and untrained American crew were brought aboard. This caused many problems. Some of which I will tell you about.
Our cabin was not clean when we boarded, towels on the floor, half full glasses of liquid, pop tins, soap rings, etc in the bathroom. We asked 3 times, and a uniformed staff member asked once to have the room cleaned to no avail. The towels were changed and the trash removed upon turn-down somewhere around 10:00 pm. If we got towels on the rack during the cruise we were lucky, sometimes we had to call to have the room made up and the towels were just left on the counter.