You get what you pay for (oh, so true!) And you don't pay a lot so you end up paying for bad food and then being nickle and dimed to death.

The Manhattan Room Restaurant

I went here for breakfast and lunch, sometimes at lunch they have pleasant live music performances and at dinner, you see dances by their Burn The Floor dancers. Food is good for breakfast with special dishes you might not get in dining room Eggs Benedict and the juices prune, tomato, grapefruit (found on the last day of the cruise you can get there in buffet if you ask, they hide it), the food was better than anywhere else.

Savor Restaurant

One of things I noticed on all NCL ships in the main dining room, is that the food seems luke warm, the scallops were weird, I got six and my tablemate got only three and then they forgot my soup but did not make an issue of it as had ordered a lot of food and I only ate three because a couple of them tasted kind of raw.

Garden Café

Food overly salted, dinner (which unlike many cruise ships quite crowded) may have a few dishes for their "theme" night but disappointingly repeats many items every night.

O'Sheehan's Neighborhood Bar and Grille

This was based on going there late at night since it was only venue open at those hours except for the pay room service. The Ruben sandwich as well as fries was probably under the heat lamp for hours, bread was hard, fries only lukewarm. Told them, since food late at night does not turn over quickly, food should be cooked to order, after two they said there is no cooked food, before it was 24/7 then on other ships they had sandwiches. Around 4 AM, they not only did not have that but only pastries. One woman who went there at 5:30 for breakfast was told that it wasn't set up even though the program said breakfast was to be served at 5 AM. She told them that and said she said she was hungry and told them to make it.

The Library

Although a vast improvement over the "Away" ship which had a few paperbacks in the Malting bar, they seem to have a decent amount of books but the major flaw is that the books are only accessible two hours a day unlike many other cruise ships who have a honor system and the day I was in the library at the allotted time and it was still closed, a woman told me that no one showed up at the other time, fortunately a worker came by and I told him that they needed to open it up and he came back with the key. Carnival to it's credit has more staff for longer library hours by using their underused dancers (who seem to resent it-LOL) What's also frustrating was that there was a shelf with old magazines and paperbacks that people left behind and THAT was locked up.

The Atrium

This rating is based on how they use it. This should only be used for the game shows and singers, when they had lectures or movies there it is awful as there is too much noise (in the case of the lecture) or light (in the case of the movie.)