At the
same time, the staff that interacts with the passengers is helpful and long
suffering. They handle every situation with professional grace.
I like
several staff members very much. The cruise director is fine. I like
Sebbastion, the lifestylist. He is very enthusiastic. I really enjoy his pool
exercise class.
Lisa, the shore excursion person is knowledgeable and
hard-working. The front office staff helped me with several problems.
The
laundry staff does a great job.
The shore excursion people are very responsive.
The tender
staff is amazing considering who they were dealing with. Some of the passengers
should probably be in a care center instead of being lifted into a boat.
The tender
pilots do a great job getting us to and from shore. We didn’t take a lot of
shore excursions through HAL but the ones we took were good.
I could not
ask for more attentive servers and waiters.
The food is fantastic. I once had a
piece of fish that wasn’t totally cooked at a barbecue. But there was so much
else to eat that I just moved on to the next item. Mumin and Putro wait on us
often in the Lido café and Tua is also very attentive.
Our room stewards are
Dodi and Moi. Ahmed and Yudi wait on us at dinner and do a fine job.
The classes
in the Digital workshop are exceptionally good and Trevor really is a techspert.
The Internet
Café is the best I have seen on a ship. The manager (who is departing) did a
good job of keeping the computers as fast as possible. He was very helpful and
so was the librarian.
As far as the
entertainment, there are some talented singers and dancers. The string group is good. The HalCats are exceptional
and I especially like the saxophone player. Strykker is fine in the piano bar.
I really enjoyed the comedian Jack Mayberry and the man who played the ukulele.
They were fantastic. I enjoyed the first magician a lot more than the second
one.
The fellow from the Bold and the Beautiful put on a good show. The band
and singer that play on the Lido sometimes are really good.
I loved Donna,
the star lady and her husband, Dan, was good, too. I think calls herself the Donna, the Astronomer online.
I wish I could have gone to
every lecture.
It would be
nice if the lectures could be simulcast in our rooms. If not that, then we need
a listing of when they will be replayed so we can catch them later.
The TV
programming could be improved. It’s pretty limited. I hate Fox News and don’t
understand why it is available when other channels actually provide more
general news. CNN is better but wasn’t always on. MSNBC and CNBC would be good,
too. For that matter, NBC, CBS and ABC would be really great!
