I would love to say that it was great, but it was just 'okay'. Embarkation was easy and painless, the cabin (L-shaped #6499) was nicely decorated and had a great extended balcony (2-3 times normal size), but other than that not much I can say was overly memorable.

I was surprised that there were absolutely no toiletry sample 'gifites' in our stateroom, not a major deal, but just something I had always had with previous cruises. Steward was friendly and kept things in good order and was quick to get us patio chairs for our balcony as our were missing at embarkation time.

Food in all areas were less flavouful than in the past, bland and luke warm. Not sure if we were often hungry at the wrong time, but the Marketplace buffets seemed to be closed more than they were open and we always found ourselves having to resort to Pizza (24hrs). We only ate in the DR once as we were seated 2 inches from the next table and they took your order as though you were all one group of 16 people. The neighbouring tablemates were smokers, it was very apparent by the tobacco smell eminating from their clothing (we are non-smokers). Upon requesting a table change through the maitre d (privately after dinner) we were told that we would have to change seating times to 8:15pm as they did not have any 2 person tables available at the 6pm seating that weren't set up in the same fashion. Read more