Great Islands. Lousy cruise line

The dining room is poorly understaffed. They don't give you water with your meal. You have to ask 2-3 times for water. If you are not buying a 4 dollar can of soda you get nothing to drink. The dining room staff was rude if you asked for anything non alcoholic. They seemed like you were asking for too much.

All was good except the final night they had a great "toga night". This is great fun. Just don't decide to have a big give-away raffle at the "guest talent show" and schedule it for 11pm on the final night of the cruise. We have to be off the ship by 8am the next day! Who Thinks of this stuff???

The crew helps if you speak the Italian language they are warm and friendly. If you speak English they act like you are from Mars. They have no problem telling you when your credit card didn't work or you have a problem with your account on the morning you are leaving. I told them my girlfriend might have a problem with her card 36hrs prior to departure and offered several solutions. They told us no problem the account was fine. We knew it wasn't and kept trying to get them to listen and they refused saying we had no problem. The morning we were leaving on an excursion taking us back to the airport They suddenly saw the account was a problem. They put us in a room with about 100 other people some of who were told they had "no problem" too and until I made a scene did they suddenly let me put the whole thing on my account which I tried to do 2 days earlier. Another guest was waiting 1hr at a table because he wasn't carrying his bank account numbers on a cruise and they needed them.

The ship is sparkling clean.

Other cruise lines do the whole towel animal thing. Not this one! they clean up just good enough but yes they do a good job nothing over and above here.