We, My wife Janet and myself were quite concerned while heading to
Hawaii because on the way over we had read 9 different reviews about
this ship others had written. We found all but one were very negative
to the point that I felt like turning around and heading home.
I will ( in order to keep this review relatively short ) get right to
the point. We neither work for or have any affilaition with the cruise
line other than we have been on ten other cruises and have our likes
and dislikes like all do. We have been on The Dream ( twice ) and the
Norway last year. The others were other carriers. Our bottom line
is for this cruise: Go and have fun, we liked the ship 100% the staff
95%, the food 98% and the itinerary 75%.
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We truly enjoyed this cruise,
it gave us time to relax. The Fanning Island situation (going over 1000
miles one way ) did seem hard to figure, but they have to go to
another country because of the Jones law created because they are not an
American cruise company. We really made the best of this situation
and enjoyed the time, and the people of the island were really nice
and the cruise line really tried hard in this situation and many
others to make it as nice as possible under the circumstances. We
could see this extra effort in many other things they did also. We
also could not use tenders in Maui Lahaina and went to the other
side of the island. The cruise line supplied really
nice buses which ran all day long to bring and take people to Lahaina.
All in all, we had a great time and as for the reviews I read from
others, I'm sure they were factual at the time, but they are really
trying hard to improve and in our book, did a great job of it.
