Meeting with a group on this ship. Very ornate public spaces but not a very convenient layout. Elevators have some kind of foreign logic. We were passed by many times in the Atrium area by empty elevator cars going the way we wanted. After a few of these episodes I switched to stairs. The climb from my cabin on deck 4 to the gym made a good warm up for work outs.

The people who served in the dining room for dinner we very competent. Breakfast in the same location was the opposite. Seemed very disorganized from the top down. Kitchen was slow, ended using the dining room buffet mostly. I found it amazing the ship ran out of bagels in two day. No bakers on board? Also why list V8 juice when only tomato juice was available.

The ship is short on small quiet places where guests can just relax and hold a quiet conversation. The next refurbish should concentrate on the cabins and not the ornate lounges. Read more