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I liked the food. Pretty good stuff. I loved the fact that there were so many different choices. The surcharge dining was worth every penny. I highly recommend the hibatchi place (Teppanyaki) and the Sushi was awesome. The chef at Sushi was fun!!! The nicest of the dining rooms was Aqua. The service and staff on the whole was NOT friendly or overly accomodating. It was sort of like they were doing you a favor. I can count on one hand the staff that performed at a level that you would expect....the rest of the staff was certainly nothing to write home about. I dont know if it was the end of the tour for most of the staff, or if they were all just having bad hair days, or what their problems were, but they were NOT friendly, and there was a HUGE language barrier with a lot of the staff in the smaller cafe's and cafeteria. None of the staff seemed to be happy or something....like we were bothering them. It was a bit annoying and certainly unacceptable!

Not bad......we had fun at the shows, and the games and stuff. We didnt do too many of these things, but the few that we did do, we had a good laugh, or were entertained.

ATTITUDE!!!! They either dont like kids, or they were just tired....not quite sure! They seemed to be bothered that they had to deal with peoples kids. HELLO....thats what you are there for. I tipped overly generous (and not just at the end of the cruise, but all throughout). A comment was made to me (from one of the kids crew) that "Awh, poor *insert childs name here* is coming here again? Im sure *insert childs name here* would rather be out in St. Thomas with mom and dad. Okay, so we had 5 ports to visit. Three of which child stayed on board. One of those ports included a visit to the hospital for another child. The other two ports were all shore excursions including parasailing and snorkeling and horse back riding and ATV'ing. Participation age for all of the above was way older than said child being put in port play. I didnt think it was her place to voice her opinion as to how many ports said child was going to participate in. After all, its $5.00 an hour for them to stay. Who

As stated above, the staff on this cruise stunk! Snotty, bothered and plain ole' rude would be some ways to describe them. It really was the exception to find someone with a nice attitude and a smile. The norm was a crabby face and an even worse attitude. The front desk concierge lady was a sweetie..she even called us by name. Pretty impressive considering that the ship was at maximum capacity and we didnt even go to the front desk very often. Guess it was just our New York charm :). Overall, the staff on board couldnt be bothered to even say "Hello", or "Good Evening". They just sort of walked around like zombies performing at minimum task and thinking that they were doing you a favor.

Confusing ship. Very broken up from where you could pick up elevators and from where you could access certain floors. It was okay clean, and it seemed to get cleaner as we cruised. I either got used to the urine smell, or it actually disappeared. Im not quite sure. A bit gaudy, but you expect that from a ship. The elevator glass and mirrors ALWAYS had handprints and smootch on the buttons. You would never see that on Royal or Celebrity.

we had a junior suite w/balcony. Our cabin stewards were GREAT!!! Room got cleaned from head to toe twice a day, and our bathroom was always spotless. Clean towels and fresh smelling digs were always a welcome sight and smell at the end of the night.