Hi All:
After using this site for so much information I thought I should share our experiences on our recent cruise which ended in Barcelona on August 4th.
We had a great time overall. This was our fourth cruise on Oceania and have also cruised Seabourn, Regent and Crystal.
We didn't find that this cruise matched up with those, particularly Seabourn and Crystal.
The vaunted "best cuisine at sea" was hit and miss. We were quite disappointed in Red Ginger (perhaps a bad night) and didn't love Toscana at all which we found extremely salty). In the past we loved both of those on both Marina and Riviera.
We did enjoy Polo and lowered our expectations for Ember and quite enjoyed our Cheeseburgers and fries!
We found the main dining room to be quite good. We had the same server each time and he was excellent. My wife is Celiac and they catered to her and her choices were abundant and generally good to very good.
Our room (Concierge Class) was well laid out and this was the best shower we have ever had on any of our cruises.
The front desk was less than helpful whenever we had a question. We tried to get change at the beginning of the cruise and was told that was not possible nor would it be possible for the remainder of the cruise.
Our biggest complaint was the fact that we rarely ran into the same people twice. We frequented all of the bars before dinner and met some very nice people.
It seemed very difficult to run into them again. I realize some of this had to do with the excellent layout of the ship, it never seemed busy anywhere.
There isn't much going on after dinner other than the show. However, after a full day touring we were generally tired anyway.
Would I book again? Definitely.
Hope you find this helpful.
