We were on this same cruise. I think that ChatKat's review was right on target. We have cruised Regent 3 times - twice on the PG and once on the Diamond. We were in a Concierge level cabin on this cruise and thought that it was very comparable to the balcony cabins on both the PG and Diamond. As ChatKat mentioned the one thing that we did miss were the bathrooms. Not terrible, but boy are those showers small. We only did one tour through the ship - the tour to Olympia - but felt is was very well done. We did several ports on our own and hired private guides for a couple of others. Since there were 4 of us, we had our teenage daughters with us, it was actually less expensive to arrange a guide. We had very good experiences with the guides as well.

We felt that the food was very comparable to Regent. We liked the specialty resturants as well. The second or third day we received a form to pre-order some very nice wines at discounted prices if you ordered a minimum of 3. We ended up ordering 6 or 7 from the list and had some really great wine. We did order rooms service for breakfast some mornings but since we typcially only order fruit and cereal we did not feel limited by the breakfast menu. Our daughters ordered room service routinely (midnight hamburgers) and were more than happy! We did dine at Tappas and quite enjoyed it. I typically hate buffets but the atmosphere was so nice, it was typically quite as we usually dined on the back deck and since we all love sushi which was served nightly this turned out the be a great option for us on nights when we just couldn't stand the thought of sitting through a 2+ hour dinner.

For us the value was incredible compared to Regent. The cruise fare was 2 for 1 with free air fare. We took the air fare credit and used FF miles for buisness class air for the 4 of us. Regent wasn't even an option since they only offered this type of itinerary in the spring and fall. Since we wanted it to be a family trip we needed a June/July departure. We were not sure how we would like the longer cruise since all our our past expereinces including Princess, Royal Caribbean and Cunard have been 7 days or less. We really enjoyed the 12 day cruise - usually after the 4th day we are already thinking about it ending but with this cruise we really felt that we had time to relax. We will definately cruise Oceania again and I would not hesitate to recommend it. The last Princess cruise we took we spent alot of time feeling very deprived after having cruised Regent - we did not feel that way at all on the cruise and felt that Oceania compares very favorably.