ruthandjohn

Our friend lives there...was born there...and told us it was planned when we visited on the Millennium in Sept but that release has more details. It's our favorite port...no Diamonds International!

Great post Shelia. When I read the first post how horrible Bruce was and how average Darren was I thought something was very wrong. Darren has been around for years as an Assistant HD (Equinox) and is one of the best HDs especially with his positive friendly attitude. Jacque de Guzman, GSM currently, is a consumate professional. The ML has a great cohesive team of officers. The negatives on here really irk me at times. The world "horrible" when read by a manager in MIA can ruin someones career. Thanks for clarifying.

We had Jacquie as GSM for the second week on the Millie...also doing a great job. The staff...which we directly attribute to Darren Tiller's leadership as HD, really was outstanding. Both in relation to their attentions to guests, but even more (to me) their interplay and happy relations between the crew members and their attitudes to their jobs. They really seemed to be enjoying their work, which considering the long hours on a cruise ship can be very noticeable in it's absence. This was, literally, the happiest ship as far as crew goes, that we have been on in 50 cruises!

CC host is Bruce VanDerBoon....and yes, most defenitely learning the ropes, ...thus I'll cut him some slack and apply the '' if you can't say anything nice about somebody,say nothing'' philosophy....but he was horrible.

HD was only marginally better...and I suspect he too is fairly ''new''in that position.

Capt Patsoulas was typical. Good chap.

We never saw the Concierge host....tells you something about visibility...

Cheers

We just got off 2 weeks on the Millie...and differed a bit from your review of staff so wanted to post our opinion.

We thought Bruce did a very good job, better than most we have had...and I don't think he's new.

Darren Tiller the HD was outstanding and has been doing the job for 10 years. The ship actually had the best cohesive attitude of any we've been on for quite awhile, with outstanding crew attitude. A very happy ship, which we love to see.

Captain Patsoulas was not really a PR man, but had a great dry sense of humor when you spoke to him.

We liked Rich Clesen...he wasn't pushy and we really appreciated his more down-to-earth and not overly fake/theatrical/raa raa attitude some of them have. He's been doing the CD job for about 12 years.

Okay...I've put in my opinion.

Cheers!