After booking this cruise, I started reading some of the reviews posted by previous cruisers, and almost canceled, based on some of the negative comments made. We were flying all the way from New Zealand for this cruise and were rather anxious. I don't know what cruise these people were on, but we were 100% satisfied.
Embarkation went extremely smoothly, considering the amount of passengers.
The ship itself was clean and well maintained. We had one small mishap when the bathroom in our cabin flooded due to a blocked drain one deck lower, but all was repaired within 30 minutes. Well done to the maintenance crew.