See post #58, re: items added back into Grands now that for the most part were missing from Grand Africa 22 and World 23. We have 700+ HAL sea days mostly on Grands, since 2014. Experiences have declined some over time, not unexpectedly or too uncomfortably, except on Grand Africa 23, where even considering Covid “pause”, it rather nosedived. To me the worst was no printed port guides after two ports…in Africa, where many people have never visited. Fortunately, we had been to many of the ports and had other research, but many, many hadn’t and didn’t. I think printed port guides have been reinstated. Is this correct current cruisers? Also, we had no guest speakers for the first 7/8 sea days of the cruise. There were other issues, but I think above info and what WriterOnDeck provided will suffice.