My husband and myself together with two friends arrived at Circular Quay, self drive and embarkation was a breeze with priority boarding.
Our cabins, 6283 and 6281 (disability) were clean and comfortable and our room steward, Noli was a bright and pleasant fellow from the Phillipines with assistance Parwati a young sweet lady from Indonesia. Our cabins were kept clean and tidy with a different towel sculpture left on our beds each evening. Between leaving our cabins to go to breakfast and returning each morning our beds were made, fresh towels left in bathroom and everything spick and span.
On the first morning we discovered that our friends and ourselves had been seated at different tables in the dining room, even though on booking by phone we made it clear that we were travelling together and required seating at the same table.
Cabin 6283.Reasonable size,though a little cramped with a 3 seater lounge, a small table and a lounge chair.Bathroom was reasonable for a cruise ship with ample room to store our toiletries.Plenty of hanging space and shelf space in wardrobes but do take your own coathangers as the ones provided are short in supply and of the sort where you unclip then from the rod and then have to slot them back into the actual hook.Cabin has an opening door to balcony which doesn't stay open unless you jam something in to keep it open.The chairs on the balcony are OK but do get a bit grubby from what I presume is soot from the vessel.The beds (we split ours to two singles) were very comfortable and the pillows quite soft.