Ship was a little worn like others said, but it really doesn't affect me. This ship was BEAUTIFUL for Alaska. A ton of Glass everywhere. Heck! The Elevators faced the outside to the ocean. I'm glad I didn't pick the Explorer OTS because you can't look out the ocean as much as the Radiance OTS.

Embarkation was A BREEZE! We dropped our bags off at 11 AM sharp as we had a rental car. Our bags were at our cabin when we boarded. The terminal is not like any terminal I've been at. It's just a big warehouse with some counters and a steep ramp up to the ship. We boarded at around 2 PM since we drove to Exit Glacier in our rental car (highly recommend a rental car from Hertz and Exit Glacier). If you board around 3:30-6, I know it's busier at those times. Disembarkation in Vancouver was very easy too and it took us like 30 minutes to get on the streets of Vancouver.

We had an interior and a balcony across the hall all the way in the FWD part of Deck Eight. Both rooms were fine, but there were some issues. The bathroom had a constant sewage smell, which the room steward tried to defend saying that it was the same on other cruise ships. I took a cruise on the Carnival Breeze exactly a month before and there was no smell. Otherwise, bathroom was perfect. The interior cabin had noise issues during docking, which I'm assuming there are some mooring lines next to the room, so I would avoid cabin 8509. Our balcony was actually a little bit bigger, but it did have a tiny obstruction in the top corner, but it didn't bother us as we could have all 4 of us on the balcony at one time. The glass on the balcony did have a stain however which wasn't very pleasant. Read more