December 13th – December 23rd, 2015
The embarkation appeared much better than last year, but for what reason, we were not sure. It appeared that we may have waited less time on the lines and that when we were instructed to go to the receptionist to register, that there were more registrars present than in the past. It also could have been that even though we arrived at the same time, there could have been fewer people scheduled to arrive at that time, making the distribution of guests more evenly spread out than in the past. This was also the first time we were asked to submit a time of arrival prior to arriving at the ship.
In general dining room service was much slower than in the past, although very courteous. We thought that there was an insufficient number of wait staff, making it often 20 minutes in order to receive our food after the orders were taken.