Well to start off we were excited to get on board and meet with our fellow cruise critic cruisers since we were unable to meet the night before.

We arrived at the port at 11:30 and the embarkation was very smooth. due to the amount of platinum members and vip members all checked in the same place the line that normally would go into the vip lounge went right to the main desks as we had purchased the cat 11 suite we went right through and on the ship. with no debarkation in the morning the rooms were available much earlier on. when we got into our room i almost threw up. the sewage was coming up in the bathroom. spent the next few hours with the crew and plumbers trying to fix it. I was not allowed in while they were working on it so i dont know what they did but smell was gone. when i returned around 4'ish the smell was even worse. i went and got the room attendant and to my surprise... did what she was told to do and i kid you not.. poured an entire bottle of shampoo that they refill the dispensers with down all the drains and ran water down all three drains. to make a long story short this same procedure was repeated for 5 days every 2-3 hours, 5 days later and many vomit sessions later they finally found the problem to be the drains did not have silicone seals around them and finally by monday night it was fixed. that being the personal part of the cruise that ruined my daughters graduation present. there were no other rooms to move us to and the attendent has been reporting these problems since it left europe, there are still many spots on the boat where this still is occurring.

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