The Journey is a lovely ship and we were pleased with the roominess of our interior stateroom. Our cabin stewards were wonderful and without them keeping us supplied with complimentary sodas and water we probably would have been totally dehydrated. We found it took so long to get drink service in the buffet dining room that we took our own sodas to meals with us and my husband would get our own water. Otherwise we were usually finished eating before we would get a beverage from the servers.

We ate mainly in the buffet dining room because we only once saw something on the menu in the main dining room that we wanted to try. We did eat dinner in the main dining room two times. The desserts were beautifully presented and the ones I tried were very good. The vegetables were so overcooked that they were inedible. The food in the buffet was not very appealing and at breakfast was usually cold. We usually resorted to having the stir fry for dinner and omelets for breakfast, but there were problems with the hot plates on both sides where only one seemed to be working properly so it took awhile to get food even there. On the first day at sea we where unable to find a seat either in the dining room or on deck and had to sit on the edge of the pool to eat. There were clearly not enough seats to accommodate everyone on board. This was the first cruise I've been on where I lost weight.

The evening entertainment was uninspired and the venue could not accommodate everyone. There is only one show a night. One night's entertainment was a small screen showing of "The Ten Commandments." It's a 3-1/2 hour movie that they started at 8:30 p.m. There were about six people in attendance and no drink service or snacks. Read more