This was the first sailing for Costa's 05/06 Caribbean season. It was evident on the first couple of days as the ship adjusted to its growing American to European passenger ratio. There wasn't any Equal or Splenda and coffee had to be drank with milk instead of creamer.
This was one of the cleanest ships I have been on but I never saw people cleaning other than the cabin stewards. It was amazing.
The beds were very uncomfortable and it was just not our cabin as we sailed in a group and everyone complained of the same hard beds and hard pillows.