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Surfside805
First Time Cruiser • Age 60s

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Sail Date: Sep 2009

This was a "repositioning" cruise - Started in Vancouver, B.C., with stops in Astoria, Oregon, San Francisco, and ending in Los Angeles. My husband & I were looking forward to the "freestyle" cruising - we're not into getting dressed up for dinner while we're on vacation. We've previously cruised on Holland America & Royal Caribbean.

So "freestyle" means that you don't have to dress up for dinner, and you don't have assigned dinner times/tables. But you can't really eat whatever you want whenever you want - there are set times for breakfast/lunch/dinner. It's not like you can roll out of bed at 10, and then have breakfast. There are 2 main dining rooms, and the food isn't that special. Some of it was terrible! (Beware the shrimp cocktail!) And you don't get the "good" food in the dining rooms - you have to eat at the "specialty" restaurants for that - and you'll pay upwards of $35 a person for that! Room service has a limited menu (BLT, pizza...), but you can pay extra for fancier stuff. In our previous cruises, pretty much everything served in the dining room was available as room service. We were looking forward to ordering room service, and having a nice meal on our balcony - BIG disappointment there! Totally felt like they were nickel & dime-ing you.

Our room was very nice, the balcony was great, and always love a coffeemaker in the room. But when we first got on board, there were NO towels in the bathroom, and the room hadn't been cleaned very well - one shelf obviously had not been dusted at all, and the table on our balcony had red wine rings all over it...!

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