In summary, our view is that a cruise is what you make it and we had a fantastic time, due mainly to the people we met on CC (now that's really telling you something!)
X is our favourite cruiseline but on this occasion once you stepped out of the square they couldn't organise a "knees up" in a bordello with a hand full of $100 notes. (Or a Party in a brewery)
If you take out the "odds and sods", the cruise was roughly 50% Australians; 25% Americans and 25% from "Old Blighty".