When you spend $24,000.00 for a cruise in the Garden Villa you have an expectation. Not unreasonable expectations but a few. How shocked we were regarding the penny pinching of this cruise line.
When you first board you are taken through a labyrinth of sales people trying to sell you dining, drinking and spa packages. Nothing included with the Garden Villa.
Let's start with the spa.
The room is beautiful but the amenities are a joke. Spend over $20,000.00 on the room but DO NOT expect any special treatment or benefits. You get free soda. The elevator cards readers were broken. Our concierge decided to spring that on us half way through the cruise. They were broken for weeks. This meant we could only take the elevator to 13 then had to walk up steps to the room. Not a problem but would have been nice to know that instead of fighting with the elevator for days.