Onboard Experience:

Restaurants:

Pinnacle Grill - THE Best - food was delicious, with great presentation and professional service - wish we had eaten there more than one night

Canneleto - Specialty restaurant (Italian) - $15 pp - not bad but nothing to write home about - we thought the service in the Main Dining Room with our regular waiters was much better, with far more food variety in MDR as well.

Main Dining Room - Excellent - our waitstaff were all very professional and personable - and the menu changed every night - very good variety and beautifully prepared

SPA: Had a few services (massage, facial, acupuncture) - which were all good - however, there is a LOT of upselling and pressure to buy additional products, which I did not like at all. Also paid for the full week of the Hydrotherapy Thermal Pool for my husband and I - he only used it once and I only used it twice. You are busy doing other activities - my suggestion would be just to pay as you go unless you think you'll use it every day.

MEDICAL FACILITY: My husband contracted the flu while we were on the land part of the vacation (pre-cruise). The doctor and staff in the Infirmary were efficient and good at explaining things. They gave him an instant flu test (swabbed his nose - it burned a LOT - not fun) and then put him on Tamiflu, Throat Lozengers, Cough medicine - and put me on a lower dose. They quarantined my husband to our cabin until he had three normal temp readings (two days, essentially) - the timing was good, because those were our first two days on the ship where we were at Sea/in Glacier bay and didnt get off the ship.