Having cruised a number of times on Windstar, my wife and I were looking for a cruise to Alaska. Unfortunately Windstar did not go there, so we looked into other cruise lines.
We both prefer the smaller ships, so when we saw Oceania, and the small ship (650 passengers), the brochure looked great, actually over the top for us, but we thought, it will hold up to the standards that we were used to on Windstar.
My first issue had to do the the large number of emails I began receiving about 2 months prior to our cruise. They started how they had overbooked the cruise and they began by offering us discounts on another cruise. Then they started offering us discounts to change cabins to a lower level, and finally 2 days before we sailed they asked if I wanted to upgrade to a more expense cabin for a slight fee. I made three phone calls to the cruise line and asked to be taken off this list, they said they said that can't be done, it was an automatic email. I felt this was very poor. How can you overbook a cruise? Aren't you assigned a cabin number??
Small shower. Two hair blowers -really?