Not really ..... If you've been on an Oceania ship and Dottie was your CD, you just smiled. Coming here to write this review I made the mistake of clicking on 2 of the most recent Riviera reviews and find myself wishing I could remember one of Dottie's jokes just to lighten the moment.

Oceania, Riviera in particular, has become our favorite way to cruise and boarding Riviera right after the cruise from 'you know where' that we'd been reading about was not the best way to begin. One thing I knew ... we would be boarding the cleanest ship on the seas that day, but little did I know then just how clean.

A word about Noro before I review the cruise itself. Any one of us who has cruised on many lines for many years is aware that there is no such thing as a "sick ship" ... only sick people who get on those ships. Oceania had several cruises since November that were Noro-free so the ship is not "sick". People, generally unknowingly, get on the ship having picked something up on the plane or elsewhere, become sick, and so it begins to spread. And we all know what happens. But anyone who has cruised umpteen times and has never encountered Noro in all that time has been extremely lucky and should play the lottery on a regular basis. Nor virus can happen on any ship, any line, any time. Those who experience that cruise can argue how the staff handled it, but I won't go there. I am not in agreement with those who believe that the passengers should have a moment to moment explanation about what's happening. We, the passengers, only need to know what we ourselves can control. Nothing more. Read more