Embarkation: Quick and easy. Port of Miami employees were friendly and helpful.

Passengers: The person who penned Oceania brochure's "country club casual" dress code might want to spend some time on Regatta checking out the passengers' attire as "Costco casual" seems a more apt description. There was nothing country club, elegant or sophisticated about our fellow passengers. Most travelers fell into the 65-80 demographic and were split evenly between middle, upper-middle and upper classes. Most of the people I met were nurses, bank branch managers and property management employees rather than engineers, doctors and lawyers. While I enjoyed the diversity of passengers Oceania seems to somewhat misrepresent the experience based on brochure photos.

Ports and excursions: St Kitts was canceled due to a passenger death and ensuing delay. Nassau was cut short due to a storm. Oceania should be required to post average number of ports missed per cruise. Note, other cruise lines will refund your unused port taxes. Oceania will NOT (seems highly unethical). Read more