To be fair I am a veteran of 15 cruises, I will say up front that the ports were excellent, we took excursions off the ship and they were all excellent. So I will concentrate on the ship in this review, my complaints are in line with other passengers, I felt nickel dimed and it seemed that every time I wanted to do something there was a pitch for an additional charge. The attraction of cruises has always been that expenses are up front and everything is all inclusive, but maybe thats changing??. The ship is clean and well maintained, cabins are small but comfortable and well maintained by the stewards, on one occassion after a trip to Pompeii and Herculaneum in the same day (definitly not recommended) I wanted to relax for a day while my wife went to Florence, the only free entertainment on tv was BBC news, Fox news or TCM movies that were run over and over for 24 hours and then replaced with another which was run over and over etc etc. If you wanted to watch a movie then you had a large selection of recently run movies to watch for $12 each. My big complaint is you cannot take on board your own bottle of booze, if you try and fail this is confiscated and returned to you at the end of the cruise, this seems like an infringement of my adult rights, I can see not allowing liqour on recreation decks, but in your cabin I think its your business. the food was high quality but not exotic and while lobster was served it was not listed on the menu as lobster, I never would have known it was on the menu if my wife had not ordered it unknowingly. The entertainment was good but I didn't see too much of it, not really my thing.  All in all it was a good cruise and for the money hard to beat....happy travels