Start with the food....great but quality tends to drop as they get farther away from resupply. The cabins are small just like all the old one renaissance ships and well designed but the bathrooms are REALLY small. The service is way above average and the cruise director and entertainment staff are unusually happy and make things go well.

Now for the unpleasant, the excursion staff might be the worst on the ocean, certainly the worst I ever saw. On so many occasions it became a running joke, you would come with a complaint and they would universally say that no one ever complained about that. This was especially hilarious if you watch someone who was next or 2 back in line who had the same complaint with the same lying response. The ports we went to were the same ports that the regatta had been to 3 or 4 weeks earlier and the same ports that nautica had been to last year yet all questions related to these ports were met with a surly “I don’t know, I’ve never been there”. I have a new appreciation for staff clearing exit the ships with 2000 passengers as they literally could never figure out how to exit the ship without having 600 people line up elbowing in the stairwells or some public place (horrible). One additional minor complaint is that the captain is apparently so dedicated to saving money that if you leave a port late for any reason you NEVER make up the time by going faster. We were late clearing every port the whole cruise. Still ignoring those 20 or 30 people a really good experience almost worth the high price but definitely 5.5 stars not 6.