Our friends have been on this ship twice before and suggested that we book it with them. The ship was beautiful. We especially loved the Solarium, the staff was wonderful, but as I mentioned two things need to change:

Casino: It should be completely nonsmoking. There was so much smoking going on, you couldn't breathe. And the crazy part is, that the staff informed us that when this ship is in Europe, the casino is nonsmoking. My question is then why, is smoking allowed when this ship sales out of US ports? That makes no sense, and for us nonsmokers, it is disgusting. If smokers want to smoke, there are outside areas designated for them. They have places to go to smoke. For us nonsmokers, there are no other casinos to avoid smoke. I doubt that the casino would lose any business if smoking was not allowed. Bottom line, if smokers want to gamble, and aren't allowed to smoke, they would still gamble. It's well about time that we make this casino completely nonsmoking.

The second thing are the food choices in the main dining room. They had a new menu, and we didn't care for it. They used to have classic choices, that you could choose if you didn't care for the entrees, they were serving. Apparantly they did away with the "classic menu". Please bring that back