The ship is really beautiful, the decor is the best I've seen on any cruise line. They had it decorated for Christmas from top to bottom, every area was decorated with Christmas lights and trees. We were so excited about trying the food from an Italian cruise line, but the food was terrrible. We always try the main dinning room for dinner but after two nights we had enough of the terrrible service and the food, our server had only 3 tables to take care of and we always had to ask for stuff, on most cruise lines after one night the sever knows what each guest is drinking but not this one. We were expecting some great Italian food not just spaghetti everynight, and WHO EVER HEARD OF CHARGING FOR WATER, that's something we all need to live, come on after paying the cruise price at least through in the bottled water. We tried the French restaurant but the food was just fair, after, the food in the tex-mex place was ok, but the best food was in the sports bar we had some fish and chips in there that were great, the buffet area was ok, not much of a choice, always had pizza not to good. The bar service was the best on any cruise line and they don't skimp on the liquor in all the drinks. But come on charging for WATER, we need that to live. They do sell bottle water coupons so buy them if you drink alot of water, they also have beer coupons, wine coupons, and mixed drink coupons, we only bought the bottled water coupons because we drink alot of water. The rooms are really spacious, we had a room with a balcony and loved it, my daughter spent alot of time in there since there was not many activies planned throught out the day and the weather was alittle cool so you couldn't lay out around the pool. The shows at nigth were great, the best we've seen at sea and this was our 15th cruise, but they do not serve drinks in the theater, you could bring on in but no where to set them down since there where not tables. Really check on this cruise before you go and take snacks in your suite case cause you'll need them. We were worried about the language barrier, but had not problem, and unlike other carnival they do not bug you to have those picture's made all the time. The only good thing about this cruise was the ports and you can catch the ship at any of the ports which worked out for us since we wanted to spend extra nights at some of the ports.