We travelled on a 5 day cruise from Malaga to Corsica and Toulon.This was our third cruise,previous cruises being with NCL again in the Western Mediterranean. We arrived at the port in good time but were faced with a time of around 1 hour to do the necessary parerwork etc On board the ship first inpressions were good,a larger ship than the NCL,s GEM with more facilities on offer such as rock climbing, in line skating,ice ring etc. On arrival on the Ship we went to the Windjammer.There were 6 of us and it was impossible to sit together.Cruise ships need to get this problem sorted out.They reckon to be 4/5 star establishments but where else do you have to fight to get a table to sit down and eat a meal.The best way to solve the problem would be to restrict the numbers in the buffet at any one time and somehow encourage people to leave once they have eaten. The windjammer was a problem at every breakfast sitting and on the 2 days at sea. Now on to the food which can be summed up in three words SAME,SAME,SAME. The Main Dining room had very little variation on the menu and it took around an hour and a half to have a 3 couse meal.By the time it came to coffee you were sick of hanging around waiting.The waiters were good but the problem was with the kitchen.I had a steak on 3 seperate occasions which was always served with mashed potato.Have they not heard of fries!!!!!!!!!!!!! . You could go in the self service restaurant in the evening but again the food on offer never varied so i have to say do not expect good food it is just plain mediocre food. Now on to the facilites offered.if you read the brochure it promises rock climbing etc etc swimming pools ,skating etc.what it does not tell you is that the water is freezing in the pool and nearly all the facilities have very limited time openings The good point on the cruise was the room which was larger than NCL with more space for clothes etc Now on to the worst part of the cruise which was having to cruise with 1800 ignorant,bad mannered,chain smoking Spanish who stood around in groups of around 20 to 30 so you could not even get past them on the boat.What a disaster!!!!!!!!!! To sum it up you can get good deals but think about the bad points such as who you have to sail with ,visiting crap ports such as Toulon and corsica and wrestling to get a seat to eat breakfast