very easy to embark,the smallest ship we have been on but a wondeful little ship! staff were all so helpful and seemed very happy, entertainment was mostly good, but would have liked a bit more varation, especially on sea days, we did feel it was maybe aimed at the older geniration! food to a good standard, we tried all the dining options, had requested a table for 2 in pacfic resturant but(as usual!) didnt get one, but our table(for 10) was good with nice people and great waiters(brill magic tricks!) sorentos and the ocean grill served good quality food and the theme nights in the buffet were brill, only thing we found was food could be little bland sometimes but that is a personal thing, being a small ship we went to places we hadnt been before which maybe the larger ships cant get to, so very interesting well organised trips and no probs getting off ship and exploring alone, bars good always found a seat and service prompt films shown in card room daily, but could have shown more action/comedy films, we did self help disembarking which was easy apart from very steep gangway with metal steps which made getting off ship difficult carrying 2 suitcases, at bottom of gangway they had forklift trucks going backwards and forwards so not good apart from that would recommed this ship highly