To see Alaska and enjoy the freestyle cruise experience.we were on board with very rude and self abosorbed etnic group who had no consideration nor the desire to co exsist with other people. This was on board and ashore on our excursions. They ruined our shore excursions. We also found the specialty restaurant Cagneys not as good as before with a decline in quality and an ala carte menu. The shore excursions were falsely stated as to the exersion levels as movement was a concern of ours. This was all of them not just a few. The officers seemed to want to be anywhere but at the latitudes cocktail party and that was a ploy to get us to reapply a deposit for future cruises. The washy washy group with the guitar was enjoyable but missing for the most part in the aft entrance of the buffet area . The crew was excellent meaning the everyday people we met. We really did not enjoy ourselfves for the amount of time spent traveling to get to Seattle to go on this cruise