After reading a bad review on this ship for this sailing I decided to put the facts straight. The reason you cant serve yourself is for health reasons. People do get sick on cruise ships and its nice to know they are taking steps to make sure this does not happen. As for the portion size, at no time was I restricted to eat as much as I wanted. I could go back and get whatever I wanted as many times as I wanted. After looking around at most Americans I would say we should eat smaller portion sizes.

As for dining in the main dining room. You did not have to wear a jacket. The men did have to wear long pants but they could be casual. Not jeans but something casual and nice. My son worn slacks and a shirt every night and the only nights it was required to wear a jacket was on dress up nights. Most night the woman in my group worn skorts, pedal pushers, slacks, nothing over the top. I do not know why it would be stated you had to wear a jacket because in our case this was not true. We did get lobster and creme brulee on the second dress up night. In fact our waiter asked if we wanted more dessert. The fact that you don't want to get so called dressed up is a personal choice but some people do and the ships try to make sure both are served. Service at all times was wonderful and we only had to wait one night.

Things did close a little earlier then expected on this ship. I was used to things being opened much later. The did have things on the back deck and most night when the movie was showing they offered popcorn. They could work on keeping things open a little longer for those of us who like something going on late at night. Its not a ship for those who like to party at night. Read more