Just returned from our 5 night Pacific Coastal cruise on the Pride of Aloha. This was our first cruise (probably not the best choice for a first cruise). We arrived early and the check in process went fairly well. Once we crossed the gangway and entered the ship we were left to ourselves to try and find our rooms (my wife, two daughters, and my sister all had three adjoining rooms on the Oslo deck, 6a). There was no one to direct us. After about ten minutes of wandering we found our rooms.
Though small, the rooms were okay. We didn't have any problems with storage. There were plenty of wooden hangers in the closet. However, the beds were like folding cots, since this was our first cruise we didn't know if this was the norm.
We hadn't eaten since breakfast and went to look for something to eat. We found the buffet on deck 11. There were no other restaurants open and no place else to get something to eat. So there were several hundred passengers trying to get in to get something to eat. We waited in line for about 30 minutes before we got in. The choices were not great. By the time we got to wanting any desert, we were told they were out of this and out of that. We hadn't started to move yet and we were questioning what the rest of the cruise was going to be like.